Ring Car Alarm ($59.99) plugs into your car’s OBD port and monitors for impacts, break-ins, tows and more. It’s slated to be a US-only product for now, and there’s no UK launch date.Īlongside the Always Home Cam, Ring announced new products to protect your car, which again are US only. The camera will be available in 2021 and will cost $249.99. For safety, the drone has covered propellers, so it can’t harm a pet or person, and it will automatically avoid obstacles to prevent crashing. Amazon says that the system is loud enough to be heard, too. You can trigger the drone manually, but it can also be linked to a Ring Alarm, flying to different locations to give you a better picture of what’s going on.įor privacy, the dock covers up the 1080p camera when charging, and the Always Home Cam only records when it’s in motion. Related: Everything Amazon announced at its Hardware event When first installed, you use the drone to create a map of your home, then you can set it to fly to specific locations, but only inside your home. Rather than being fixed in position, the camera can fly up from its dock to predetermined areas of your home, giving you multiple viewpoints with a single camera. No more with the Ring Always Home Cam, which is part security camera and part drone. I want to see that same logic applied to the Always Home Cam: If it can go check on an unusual sound, it should also be able to distinguish between a mundane situation (like my cat knocking over a book) and a crisis (like an intruder breaking in through my back door) and alert me appropriately in either case.If there’s one problem with security cameras it’s that they’re locked in position and can only view a limited part of your home or garden. Smart securityĪt this point, video doorbells are getting pretty good at telling the difference between a person and a package, and Alexa Guard can tell the difference between human footsteps and animal ones. When I get my hands on the Always Home Cam, you can be sure I'm going to try carrying it up and down stairs to see if I can make it work. Ring has said the device will work on a single floor and that it will follow predetermined paths created by physically carrying the drone around the house - that means no responsive avoidance of a person walking, for instance, other than maybe registering an obstacle and reversing course. I don't want to wake up in the middle of the night, stumble out into the hallway and get slapped in the face by a drone checking on the unusual sounds I made when I got up.įor now, barring significant updates, this isn't going to happen. Practically, that means working with Alexa Guard to listen for human footsteps when you're on vacation, or it could mean investigating when your Ring video doorbell picks up unusual activity like someone approaching the door and not leaving after a few minutes.īut the personalized settings are important, too. Ring has already confirmed that there will be some level of responsiveness tying in with Ring's Alarm system, but for the camera to reach its full potential, I want to see it respond to a wide variety of customizable inputs, and respond in personalized ways, such as going to parts of the house I've OK'd ahead of time. An autonomous camera's biggest appeal to me is that ability to go check when something unusual happens, whether it's the sound of glass breaking or Ring's security system registering a door or window opening. When something goes bump in the night, what's the first thing you do? Well, after you grab the baseball bat, you go see what it was. Here's what Ring needs to offer (and not offer) to win me over. That said, I won't dismiss the Always Home Cam out of hand.
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