Ring made big announcements today, including the highly anticipated 24/7 recording feature, video preview alerts, doorbell calls, and extended live view. The company also rebranded its Ring Protect Plan to Ring Home. The tiered subscription plan enables customers to save videos in the cloud for later viewing, share videos, and access Ring Alarm features.
Aside from a name change for its subscription plan, Ring’s biggest new feature is 24/7 recording for eligible wired cameras. This enables users to record continuously, with the cameras capturing whatever goes on around them, even outside pre-determined motion zones.
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Notifications from the Ring mobile app will also have an option to show video previews for the first time. This type of rich notification gives users a short video preview of what triggered the motion detection alert without opening the Ring app, similar to Google Home’s preview notifications with Nest cameras.
Ring also introduced doorbell calls, which ring your phone whenever someone rings your doorbell. The calls come through like a video call, and when customers answer, the Ring app opens a two-way talk interaction through Live View.
Finally, Ring added an Extended Live View feature, letting people stream their camera’s live feed for up to 30 minutes instead of the 10 minutes available currently on the Ring app. Users with wired cameras and access to 24/7 recording can leave the Live View on for longer periods of time.
These new features will become available in stages over the coming weeks and go live to Ring Protect Plan subscribers, now named Ring Home, on November 15.
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Ring Home subscriptions feature the same plan tiers as Ring Protect, though all the new features won’t be available for all plans. The Ring Home Basic plan costs $5 a month and includes video previews but not 24/7 recording. The next tier is Ring Home Standard, which costs $10 a month and includes extended live view and doorway calls but also doesn’t offer 24/7 recording.
The Premium plan, Ring Home’s most expensive subscription tier, costs $20 and supports extended live view, 24/7 recording, live previews, .and doorway calls.
Source: Robotics - zdnet.com
