Ring Car Cam – Vehicle security cam with dual-facing HD cameras, Live View, Two-Way Talk, and disturbance detection
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- Dual-facing HD cameras Two wide-angle cameras, one road-facing to capture detailed driving footage, and one cabin-facing with Night Vision so that you have a security camera to protect against break-ins.
- Disturbance alerts with real-time notifications - Receive real-time disturbance notifications when built-in sensors detect a physical disturbance. Connected to Wi-Fi or LTE is required.
- Live View + Two-Way Talk Have the ability to see inside and talk with anyone in your car from your smartphone through the Ring app when your car is parked and and connected to Wi-Fi or LTE.
- Privacy cover A built in privacy cover lets you block the cabin-facing camera which also electronically shuts off the microphone.
- Traffic Stop Ask Car Cam to record by using the command, Alexa, record, to save highlights to the cloud with an optional Ring Protect Go subscription (sold separately).
- Ring Protect Go When your car is away from your home wifi, get access to 180-day cloud storage, use Live View and Two-Way Talk wherever your car is, locate your car with built-in GPS, get rich notifications, real-time notifications and more.
- Easy installation Car Cam plugs into your vehicles OBD-II port. For safety, only use Car Cam in vehicles where the OBD-II port is located to the left side of the steering wheel.
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This product is officially discontinued. THE PRODUCT: The name says it all - "Ring Car Cam - More ways to help protect your car." It doesn't say it’s a high-end dash cam designed to compete in the overcrowded market. Instead, like a Ring camera, it is a security device intended to monitor the surroundings and inside of the car while in motion or parked and to alert you of any suspicious activity such as break-ins or vandalism. The question is whether the Cam does a good job of what it's meant to do. PARKING PROTECTION: The biggest selling point of the Ring Car Cam is the ability to monitor your car when it's parked, such as in a hotel or in the driveway at night, and receive instant notifications of any suspicious activity. Ring states that it has a low-power mode to provide continuous monitoring and will shut down when it detects a low battery level to ensure that you can start your car. Unfortunately, the function fails miserably. Regardless of the age of your car, battery, or app settings, the Cam will shut itself off shortly after the engine is turned off. Depending on the battery level and settings, the Cam may stay on for only for a few minutes to a few hours; it won't last all night. When it shuts down, it won't wake up upon impact, so it won't be able to detect or notify you of vandalism or break-ins. Nor can you check your car through live view. Additionally, because most drive clips are stored locally due to their size, when the Cam is offline, you can't view them from your phone or the web. Fortunately, this can be easily fixed with a firmware update. Note that Ring does not recommend using the Cam if your battery is past its service life or after four years. (That’s an additional $200 on top of the $60 annual fee.) LIVE VIEW & LTE: We love being able to see what's going on inside and outside of the car at any time, checking how your kid is driving and chatting with the technicians when your car is at a service station. However, you can actually run out the 2GB LTE in one week, and when that happens, you lose all cloud functions and notifications. Practically speaking, LTE doesn't have much to offer at this point. Due to poor power management, the Cam shuts down shortly after the car is turned off, so you can't use live view and won't receive notifications for theft or break-ins. Cloud storage is only for highlights and very limited live view. The clips are a few minutes long and the cloud never stores the full-length motion video for the entire trip. By the way, live view is not supported by Echo Show, so you can't just tell Alexa to show you your spouse's whereabouts when you're cooking! There is fine print that says "extra data charges may apply." Ring indicates that no additional fee beyond $60 would be imposed. Ring also states that they are working on the LTE plan to better deliver the cloud functions. It is possible to use a personal hotspot so that you can continue to use live view without LTE, and for the travel videos to show up in the app before you get back to your home WiFi. EVIDENTIARY VALUE: In good weather conditions, the dual cameras deliver clear 1080p videos day and night (no IR for front cam). The field of view (119.5 degrees front, 153 degrees rear) is comparable to other dash cams. A common complaint is the inability to read license plates even when they are in close proximity (beyond a car's length) or in motion. Ring indicates that future firmware, likely to be released in two months, will improve video quality. Ring didn't elaborate much on technical details, but it is possible to improve video quality through software, to some extent. Techniques such as digital image stabilization, increased frame rate, and improved high bitrate numbers can be used to enhance video quality. However, there are physical limitations. For example, most dash cams shoot at 30FPS, and vehicle speed variance is usually more than 10mph on highways, the result is bound to be blurred. Thus, if standard video quality works for you, this Cam will serve you well, not to mention the cam’s unique remote features. However, if license plate readability or other recording details are critical to you, you may want to opt for a dedicated high-end dash cam. DATA ACCESS: To download the video, you need to have a subscription and the video is limited to 20 seconds each time. Yes, only 20 seconds, and it takes a couple of minutes to process. It can take an hour to download the entire drive video. To avoid excessive LTE playback and download limitations, I use screen recording on my phone to capture the drive videos. Given the current low resolution of the video, there is no difference whether the video was downloaded natively (supposedly 1080p) or screen recorded (540p). As the storage is non-removable and the device can't be powered up by a regular USB-C, access to the files can be a serious issue after an accident. INSTALLATION: The device is pretty compact, and the build quality is good. The installation is easy. A common complaint is that the USB-port is on the right side of the Cam. Ring explained that it is a safety decision – the excessive cable should be tucked down to the passenger side. Be very careful when you place the Cam between the windshield and dashboard. Do not use any force, as it WILL crack the window. Avoid blocking vehicle light sensor ¬– the little dome thing on the dash. Also, as it is attached to the windshield and partially blocks the view, it is illegal in some states. Check the law before you buy. Sitting at the front of the windshield with blue light on makes it an obvious target for theft and may defeat its purpose. The built-in light is pretty dim. You won’t get the colorful image the ad shows. As for the OBD-II power source, it is safe to use. The good thing about OBD-II is that it provides a non-stop power supply without having to get into the car’s electrical system to hardwire the device. If you already have a device attached to your OBD-II, you can get an OBD-II splitter. Ring indicates they do not collect data from OBD-II. DRIVING EXPERIENCE: After you start your car, the Cam will turn itself on in a few minutes and start to record when you drive, capturing both inside and outside of the car simultaneously; you cannot disable it. Specifically, there is a prompt that says: To start a drive recording, you must accelerate to at least 10 MPH. Once you stop, the drive recording will end once the vehicle sits idle for six minutes. Still many reviews indicate that the Cam sometimes randomly stops recording and GPS location is inaccurate. The inconsistency in performance will be fixed in the upcoming firmware update according to Ring. FINAL THOUGHTS: In its current status, this Cam is good enough to do what a dash cam can do. The video quality is sufficient to capture common accidents, such as hit-and-run, sideswipes, failure to yield, rear-end collisions, or prevent insurance fraud like catching “staged accidents” and disproving fake witnesses. But does it warrant $250 when any $100 dash cam has better recording capability? It will depend on your specific needs and how you like the Ring ecosystem. Like Apple products, Ring offers simple and elegant solutions. Ring’s not-so-unique but integrated and comprehensive features, such as 24/7 parking protection, live view that works like an electronic chaperone, Traffic Stop designed to document an incident even when the car is off, and rich notifications are great remote functions and offer real-time protection. If the upcoming firmware works as promised, the Cam and subscription will be a worthwhile investment as the cost will be far less than your insurance claim and give you peace of mind when you can check in at any time.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2023 by GP GP
I bought this thinking I'd have an always-recording high quality video dash cam that would be easy to view and/or download any segment of video after the fact. I liked the added benefit of it being a security camera. Unfortunately, it seems as if it's more meant to be a security camera with the main draw of a dashcam being secondary, but it does neither especially well. I was trying to go back and look at something that happened yesterday, and first I ran into a problem using any desktop web browser whatsoever to view the content through ring.com. No matter which browser -- Firefox, Chrome, or Edge -- it reports that none of them can play HEVC and that I'd better go switch the car's recordings to "legacy" for the future. Well, a lot of good that does for what's already recorded. So I tried downloading the video. It spins for a long time and then stops spinning but never gives me a download. I can't get the video at all from a computer. OK, let's try the Ring app on my phone. I can view it there, but that's hard to see, awkward to use, and zooming at all is very pixelated. There is a download button here as well, but it tells me it can only download 30 seconds at a time, starting at wherever I've paused. Good luck pausing where you really want to start on that phone interface. Throughout trying to do this, it kept telling me "connection failed". I'm sitting right next to the car and both devices are on the same WiFi 6 network. That 30 second segment option tells me that it's about to get the video ready and it'll let me know when it's ready to download and then it never does. I just cannot get that video to something that I can see. Had I been in an accident, that would have been a real problem. This device isn't dependable. Now for security ... that would work fine, except that either my car's battery is just not good enough or this thing doesn't know how to manage power. I have a less than one year old battery in my Honda CR-V (it's a fairly high amperage battery) and it tells me it's turned off the battery to conserve power anywhere from 20 minutes after leaving the car to maybe 4 hours if I'm very lucky. It seems to average about 2, though. So if you want to break into my car, just wait a couple of hours and you're good to go. Unfortunately I'm sure I'm well past whatever satisfaction period existed for this and I'm stuck with it. At least I got it for the preorder price which was $50 less. I see myself replacing it with something else, though and taking my loss. And by the way, the problems I'm having? Not because I'm not paying up for the premium plan. I have paid a full year for that. Update after some months of use: I had gotten a call from a friendly lady from the Ring support group after writing my above review. She seemed to believe at the time that some of the deficiencies were on the radar to hopefully be corrected, like the inability to view recordings using the web interface (it tells you your video codec isn't sufficient even if it is) and the ability to download better than 20 second clips at a time. As of now, some time later, neither of these features are available, and I'm doubtful that they ever will be. She had mentioned that if I was still dissatisfied with the Car Cam after using it for a little while longer I could call her back and get some kind of concession (not necessarily refund, but perhaps credit to apply to my home security system's plan), but since then I've lost both her name and the contact number so I'm basically SOL. I'm going to buy a competing wireless-connected dashcam because this one is just not usable if you actually want to download video at all -- you can't easily position it to the right time segment on the phone app (it gets the wrong clip most of the time) and the 20 second limit is a non-starter. Not being able to get this working in any of the modern web browsers is inexcusable. Even if they have to transcode via their server on-the-fly, I don't care ... make it work. It's not rocket science. Or update the firmware to use a CODEC that browsers can decode. This was originally the solution ("turn on the legacy mode to downgrade it to H.264") but that directive wasn't helpful as there is no such option available. So as it is, I have a useless/worthless $250 item which doesn't do anything for me and I'm still paying subscription fees to store video that I can't ever download unless I'm happy with getting the wrong 20 second clips at a time. I wish I hadn't lost the contact info for the nice lady because I'd gladly take the credit on my Ring account and toss this thing in the garbage or mail it back. So, if you're the one I spoke with and you're reading this, please contact me :) Further update: Not a single one of the deficiencies that I was told were being addressed have yet been addressed, now long after the product launch and after I was told these were understood to be important. Either Ring has designed this so that its software cannot be made to work adequately or has just decided not to do any of that. You still can't use a desktop computer at all to access anything (no web browser support), can't download more than 30 second clips, etc. It doesn't have any internal battery capability whatsoever so it depends on the car, so it shuts down after a relatively short time making it useless as a security device. Even if all of this weren't true, the video quality is just terrible and I doubt software could fix that. You can't make out license plate numbers and a lot of things are so grainy as to not be useful. Roadside signs often can't be read. As it is, this product is next to useless. I'm just accepting my financial loss on having bought an expensive piece of junk and I'm buying a competing 4K webcam that does everything this one doesn't do including full connectivity with its own ample battery and ability to download full video remotely, and as a kicker that one is actually less expensive than this!! Look elsewhere.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2023 by C. C. Jones