I made a video almost a year ago about the Ring Video Doorbell and it's
actually one of the most viewed videos on this channel but one of the comments
that i kept getting on that video is
that's great for your front door but what about the rest of your house
Ring's got you covered
after my previous collaboration with Ring I got in touch with them again
recently about their very new product the Stick Up Cam and so for this video
in addition to sending out a Stick Up Cam for me to take a look at
they also offer to sponsor this video as well as sending out a box of other Ring
products so that you can see the entire suite of things that they offer and I
mean they send out a whole box of things to look at
now first up of course you've got the Ring Video Doorbell as I mentioned a
couple of times already I've already made a video about the Ring Video
Doorbell
this is some updated packaging though it does have a little bit of a different
look and feel to it with a little pull tabs that help you to get into
everything and a quick install guide built into it the original Ring Video
Doorbell is still a highly integrated part of my day to day life and after I
made the previous video i've actually been using their paid service i've been
paying for myself for the last year
no qualms about which speaks volumes so make sure to check out that video if you
want to learn more about it to go along with the doorbell though if you don't
have an existing doorbell but you still want to be able to hear it chime whatever
someone pushes the doorbell
they also have a chime the Ring Chime and this is legitimately just a chime that
you plug in you set it up over Wi-Fi and you link it to your existing Ring
Doorbell
that's really all there is to it it's just a chime with a plug on the end of
it and a little teeny tiny quick install guide the quick install guide i can only
assume says plug it in
look for a Wi-Fi but to get to the crux of today's video the Ring Stick Up Cam
this is the camera you use to help ensure you have that ring of security
around your home
the Ring Video Doorbell can be used in the front of your home to protect your
door and whatever front-facing areas of the home you've got or whatever other
part of the house you might put a doorbell on but the Ring Stick Up Cam
can basically go anywhere else anywhere that you can stick it it can go
it can be one hundred percent wireless if you want it to be and just bring it
in and charge it whenever you need to
or you can use micro USB to plug it in and they actually also included a solar
panel you can use with it we'll look at that a little while later but as you can
tell from just looking at it this basically looks almost identical to the
existing Ring Video Doorbell
it just does not have a big old button on the front of it because it's intended to
be used as a security camera but it's battery operated it does motion
detection connects to Wi-Fi gives you two way audio which is something you
don't see out of pretty much any other security cameras out there and still
uses the same cloud video recording that we have
with the Ring Video Doorbell it is a 720p camera you can see down here what
it would look like it has battery or solar powered as i mentioned and you can
install it in just five minutes using the adjustable mounting bracket or
whatever other mounting options you want
let us dig into this and get it set up so there is the camera and just taking a
look at it first impressions of it very solidly built feels good in the hand has
this nice lens sticking out of the front here on the back there appear to be a
couple of silicon covers so under one you have the big orange setup button
under the other
yeah micro USB port and this I assume would be what you mount it with you've got
a bag of assorted screws and anchors one additional screw and then all of your
mounting gear with a little pull tab
I'm liking the pull tabs down on the very bottom you've got a micro USB
charging cable just a short one and a quick install guide which actually tells
you what all the pieces and parts that were included are you got the Ring Stick
up cam you've got the security mount you've got the quick release mount drill
bit
micro USB charging cable and some screws and anchors and accessories and as I was
starting to get to here this is your quick release mount you can screw this
into place and then use this to attach the camera to - and just sort of click it on
like this
so whenever you're ready to move the camera just pop it off or you can use this
one as a more secure mount and again screw into the corners to hold it in
place and this one lone screw that we were looking at just a minute ago
actually appears to go in any one of these three spots because you basically
take your little mount here
you stick it in whichever spot you'd want you run the screw through it and
that's that your mounted to it
so I'm going to take a minute and get all this set up here in just a minute
but there are two more things in the box to look at one is this extremely long
12-foot waterproof USB cable
I say waterproof because it does have a little bit of a shield here at the end
you simply plug it into the back of the camera like this and then the shield
comes up and over protecting the inside of the camera from any sort of water
incursion
and of course you have to do something about the other end of the cable it
would either have to come back inside the house or it would have to go into some
sort of a covered area something that's not going to have any sort of water
around it but that is definitely a nice option and then you have the USB solar
panel the perfect charging solution for your Stick Up Cam now as it mentions
here on the back it does have the Ring solar panel a mounting bracket a
screwdriver, drill bit and
installation screws and anchors inside of the box here's the dimensions on it
seven and a half by six inches
pretty decent size for solar panel and it provides 2 watts 5 volts of power
it's weather resistant and it has a micro USB charging cable
but let's take a quick look at what comes in this box as well so that's a panel
that's a solar panel right there
this is where your mounting bracket would go presumably but this has an included attached
what appears to be 12 foot waterproof cable and the good thing about this
being self contained is you don't have to worry about protecting the end of the
port
it's already protected and then of course to go along with that you've got
your mounting bracket
it should basically just kind of slide in here and click into place just like
that you put two screws in it to hold it on to whatever surface you wanted to put
it on and that gives you a little bit of flexibility in terms of how you want to
angle it
you can't rotate it but that's okay and again you've got a couple of screws and
anchors as well as a drill bit and a screwdriver and an installation guide that
should help you all along the way I've just got to say the solar panel is really
really cool
and there's the specs about it on the back in case you're curious it says 2 watts
at 6 volts with a max current of 0.34 amps now just in case you're curious the
Ring Stick Up Cam is available for $199 dollars over on
Ring.com the solar panel is $49 dollars and of course the original Video
Doorbell is $199 and the Chime is $29
just so you're aware of all the pricing and everything but let's take just a
minute we'll go ahead and get everything installed and setup skipping to a couple
of weeks later the installation was as predicted super simple basically just
went into the Ring.com app hit add new device walked through a quick wizard hit
the big orange button on the back of the camera confirmed all the Wi-Fi details
and that was about it
as far as the hardware installation I basically put a couple of screws into
the Stick Up Mount popped the camera into place
put a couple of screws into the solar panel popped it into place hooked the two
together with the micro USB cable and I've had no problems
I did however take just a couple of days and use it without any sort of
connectivity so it was 100% wireless and the battery did not go down all that
much and when i first received it did not have this option but Ring has been
slowly rolling out the ability to use Live View to manage the Live View
settings of the camera simply click on it inside of the
app click on the cog in the upper right hand corner and then there's a section
that says Live View from this page there's enable Live View where you can
turn it on or off
keep a note that if you do not have it plugged into some sort of power source
leaving it turned on even if you're not using the Live View mode it's going to
drain some of your battery just because it's sitting there polling waiting for
you to actually connect to it but if you do choose to leave Live View on here are
some of the power options you'll have available
you can either plug directly into some sort of a USB power source you can use
the solar panel there's even a little link here you can click on that will show
you how you can buy the device right now
then you have the two different battery options here the one that says battery
optimize performance
that's going to get you connected as quickly as possible battery with
conserve power means it may take just a second to spin up and actually get you
connected and you can sort of see from this side over here just how long the
battery life will last how it will be impacted by these options
so obviously USB power is going to be the one that you're gonna get the best
power performance out of solar power is still going to get the job done and if
you're on battery just keep in mind you're gonna have to charge it somehow
some time and again if you choose not to use this Live View option you can always
just toggle it off by clicking up here in the top corner and hitting done in my
case I'm going to be using solar power so i'm gonna click solar power and hit
done and then it says Live View is going to be enabled for your Stick Up Cam after the
next motion event so you have to actually go out and do some sort of
motion in front of it for it to toggle that i was using the Stick Up Cam in
the back using live view on it for ten-plus minutes at a time
and over the course of about a day or two I noticed a drop down to about 95 and
then 90 percent battery left so I was definitely draining it pretty quickly
but then I hooked up the solar panel to it and I was a little curious about how
that was gonna work because that's on a part of the house where we don't get sun all
the time we just get it in the afternoon
it was at 90% one day solar panel was hooked up as soon as the Sun got
into a place where it could see the panel battery charged right back up over the
next few hours since that time I haven't seen it drop below 95%
and that was again
only when i was using it significantly for Live View and the Live View service
works really well basically tap a button in the app and a few seconds later
you're connected to your camera which is really one of the big features that
everyone was asking about with the Ring Video Doorbell review i did a while back
so excellent to see that show up in terms of the video quality it looks
almost identical to the Ring Video Doorbell video which is fine by
me it's clear enough to be able to make out who a person is be it day or night
and the motion detection definitely works quite well basically as soon as I
open my back door and step out onto the back deck
I get a notification on my phone so to go ahead and wrap things up I'm
extremely happy to have the Ring Stick Up Cam protecting my backyard at this
point
and as I've mentioned in the past i am so pleased to have the Ring Video Doorbell
out front
definitely nice to be able to know when people are coming to the door when
packages are delivered
I was at lunch with some of my co-workers yesterday and I got a
notification while we were sitting there eating i was able to quickly and easily
pull up that Ring app and see DHL putting a package inside of my storm
door and my coworkers seemed to enjoy that as well so very nice to know that i'm
always connected and technically sort of always home if I need to be
there's a whole other side to all of this that I haven't really had the
opportunity to explore yet all the Ring products do tie into third party
partners things like connected door locks and lights
I don't actually have any of those things to test out right now but when i
do sometime down the road i'll probably make another video showing all of that
but that's going to wrap things up for today
definitely make sure to check out the Ring Stick Up Cam super flexible super
easy to install you can put it anywhere you don't even have to have a wire for
it if you don't mind taking it down and recharging it every so often I'll have
links to all that down in the video description
thanks again to Ring for sponsoring this video and making all of this possible
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