Doorbell Deals & Offers

Says price drop on website but doesn’t come up with 139. Might need to get in touch with BT if you want to buy one

Yes i had the same but i had one in my basket from a couple of days ago and it seemed to have gone through at £139. Don’t understand what happened really (confused)

Not getting this price, comes up as 199

Great price op i think I’ll upgrade from v1. Nice one

Cheers. Already had it added to basket off last time when I'd missed it. Got it this time.

Do these run on batteries or do they need hard wiring.

Already posted earlier today

For £99 Ring video doorbell + Ring Chime https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ring-video-doorbell-v1-satin-nickel-ring-wireless-door-chime-99-free-delviery-or-cc-screwfix-3216440

What happens if you dont answer? Is the burglar to assume that YES the house is empty? (The ad)

Sure.. only the Blink cameras are heavily restricted on storage... Ring: 60 second videos - unlimited - stored for 30 days Blink: 7,200 seconds of video before being overwritten.. that's only 120 one minute long videos. Our doorbell records a good 10-20 clips on a quiet day. With Blink, I'd be at my storage limit in less than a week! I'm happy paying my £2 per month for 30 day unlimited storage, thanks :)

It’s just the principle, they are expensive and should be bundled in like the blink cameras

Yes people go out of their way to leave negative reviews, but not good reviews, but as i said the numbers are much higher than any decent company would want tarnishing their reputation. So the small production cost of a chime pro, probably below £5 is not an unessasary expense on a £179 rrp item. However it seems they share the same ideology as you and have lost much more in lost sales due to bad word of mouth than it would of cost to include the chime pro. You only have to look above to see people saying they haven't bought one due to so many poor reviews they were unsure. Anyway all the best im glad yours works great

Let's face it - people are more likely to leave a bad review than a good one. Look at John Lewis' TrustPilot page! The majority won't have an issue - it's all down to the construction of your house, layout of your network, and localised congestion. It's an unneccesary expense to include it in every box.

So dont give an item intended for a market in America to a different market with different needs and just wing it by putting people though hassle then giving 50% a chime afterwards instead of including it in the box. Its just poor ethics, if just 2 or 3% needed the chime pro then your point would be valid but everywhere i see ring reviews they're mostly complaints about the same issue, so its a huge number. Ill tell my friend about the battery

I can't see the front door from my window. Don't assume this won't benefit people. Some burglars ring the doorbell to see if anyone is in before breaking in or as is happening in our area at the moment there are people going around at night checking car doors on peoples drives. This could be added security.

Thanks, unfortunately I don’t know one who’s a Costco member. Does anyone know another website or shop I can purchase this for around the same price or if another website or shop can price match maybe?? Thanks

You can have someone login and order it for you.

Can I not use someone else’s membership number?

Unfortunately you have to be a member. Alternatively, you can purchase an online only annual membership for £15. But that does not get you store access. I have purchased several things inc. a washing machine and mattresses from the website and saved several hundreds in the process.

@badgerman26 Thanks for the heads up, that'll teach me for copy/pasting from the older thread! Looks like it copied the YouTube image rather than the link. Never seen that happen before, epic fail lol. Anyway, previous post should hopefully be showing the right link now. In case I messed it up again, here it is again:

Hi. Thanks for doing a video. It doesn’t look like you’ve linked it though. Just a pictu

I ordered one of these back in December and got it a few weeks back when it was back in stock, I'm pretty happy with it. Tutorial I found it a real pain to setup so if anyone needs a walkthrough on how to pair the doorbell to WiFi, phone and chime I've done a little video. There's also a list of pros and cons in the video description in case anyone wants to know how it compares against the original Ring doorbell. Hope it's ok to post in two threads, I'd posted this in the original thread but have since noticed that one's expired. Hopefully this might be of use to someone, if you don't speak Chinese then I found there was a lot of trial and error during setup! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vco6mF84CwQ

Slightly cheaper at Ali Express, if people prefer this seller: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Xiaomi-Zero-AI-Face-Identification-720P-IR-Night-Vision-Video-Doorbell-Set-Motion-Detection-SMS-Push/32964780760.html

Yes think so. As mentioned mainly use for doorbell recording. The Yi is on permanent record.

I saw that thread but no membership :(

Costco cheaper for bundle

is Ring Video Doorbell V2 & Chime Pro Bundle on AO still the cheapest? This is mad:

Interesting. Must be account specific.

Model number and picture V2-FLOODBLK

How do you know this is Ring Doorbell V2 and not V1?

i jumped in and bought one of the ring doorbells and two of the flood lights, they are ok, I have issues with mine that i have not been able to resolve, and there are occasions where i simply cannot go online to the camera, i have three friends who also have them and they have the same issues. also ;) (mad) what they dont tell you is after your free trial you have to pay a monthly fee to view your recorded footage, in my case its £2.50 per camera per month. or £8 per month for unlimited cameras,

Just looking at this myself. Hate the thought of being forced to pay for a subscription to access recorded footage. Looking at ways to integrate it with Zoneminder or at the very least back it up to my NAS. Looks possible after a quick search depending how tech savy you are. Seems a URL to a SIP stream is available so it should be doable. Would make an interesting project. Some interesting info. A fella has written his own Ring API https://github.com/davglass/doorbot/

Now im more confused to either get this or the doorbell with chime and 6 months of cloud I hate that they made the cloud thing such a cash grab and idk if it's true or not whether you can view the recordings without the cloud? Can someone let me know plz thx

damn me tooooo, I was just ordering few extra cameras for my home, ehhh. next time.

it's £139 now.... Damn, misssed the offer

Why are you writing essays for a deal? Calm down

Are you going to write this on every Ring deal now? If you don't think it's a deal then vote cold and move on with your life.

Another useless overpriced gadget! When you’re OUT!, you’re OUT!!!! so why would you need to answer the door? 1) Amazon or another delivery? - they will leave it with the neighbours or in your designation place. 2) For safety to see who’s at the door? - look through the window. 3) The Postman? Your OUT you can’t sign for anything! 4) Door salesman? Look through the window and signal no thanks! 5) Family or friends turn up? - Your OUT! Save the excuses and the money and move your ass of the sofa!

Thanks OP, i managed to pick this up for £131 in Costco Sheffield on Saturday (slightly earlier than the 15th live date) :) . To answer any questions/provide a real impression: - It includes the normal chime (non-pro). - It does includes 6 month cloud service (i've checked on my subscription, which also has no card details associated either at present). - It's very easy to install (my pre-existing chime and transformer lacks the min 8V, so it's currently just battery.. though had it been 8V> it still would have been fairly straightforward to re-wire from existing doorbells wires if you have these - i'm a DIY novice and found it very easy!) - The response delay depends heavily on WIFI signal reach (I did have to spend a bit of time getting the interference down over the weekend after initial disappointment i.e. I found the notification to phone was good, but completely pants to the chime ironically given it's a doorbell first and foremost! I've now got this resolved and get minimal delays to both phones and chime, so i'm happy so far.. i pre-warn this takes time though and is very case by case on installation!) - Battery drain so far hasn't been bad (appreciating it's fairly new obviously). - Motion detection i'm finding to be pretty good actually. I live parallel to a busy road and through the settings i've adjusted it to only pick cars coming up very close to the house (so far it's only tracking the postie, flyer people, cars parking outside and myself/better half going in/out of the house - no excessive traffic noise etc.) For comparison, I have Arlo cameras which are a nightmare when it coming to motion detection configuration (pick up every moving car!) Hopefully the above helps someone (as i spent a ton of time trawling youtube, reviews etc. prior to pulling the trigger and buying (y))

Cheers for that

Yes, it can be switched off

Good when they work, mine doesn't about 70% of the time!

I hate that it makes an obnoxiously loud tone to the person who pressed it. Surely this can be switched off?

Which camera/system is this? Looking for a new one, but only really seen Swann doing heat detection - most the others are motion alerts, which can be noisy in the wind.

JL have price matched for me (y) 🏻

Interesting. I think I'm going to get a price match from JL and take a punt on it, if its not up to the job they can have it back as it is a very expensive door bell to not work as advertised!

My Hello is on the latest software version according to Nest.

I see lots of varying comments on this. Have you updated it? APPARENTLY, Nest have addressed the delay this year and its much better.

Ring have sorted for me see my update

figure of speech.

So.... On the back of posting this deal I ended up buying the Ring Pro.. Had dropped to £199 in Argos and I cashed in the money in my quidco account to drop it further. Probably not the best deal but I'm not fussed. Fresh install with no existing doorbell so I had to wire in myself. Bought this for the transformer to sit in: toolstation.com/wylex-2-module-enclosure/p31929 All in all, it was a couple of hours work to fully install it. Was easy enough to do. I'd recommend watching the UK installs on YouTube if you're unsure. If you have no experience, then consult an electrician. The notifications are instant, they come through my mobile and the Alexa's in the house. I've had fun with the ITTT app which can trigger the hue lights to flash when someone rings the bell. On a side note, the chime that came with the set doesn't work. It's completely dead. I called the customer care line (based in Arizona) after a short wait, I got through to a very helpful (and slightly cheesey) agent who went out their way to help. They're sending me a replacement. I could have gone back to Argos but I thought it was a good opportunity to test their customer service and report back. Overall, my initial experience is very positive. Easy to install and set up. Instant notifications to my mobile (1-3 seconds). Good integration with the rest of my smart home kit via ITTT. Great customer service when something goes wrong. Gets a thumbs up from me (y) 🏼

Okay.. and why, pray tell, would you tell a stranger that? This isn't rocket science.

When you tell him on the Ring that sorry you can't answer the door because you are on holiday and there is no one home ;)

Screwfix have stopped selling this it seems.. Useful. Its amazing the Nest don't supply this given the cost!

This has dropped a couple of quid again and is now showing at £173.99

Just in case this is useful for anyone in the future: Mine arrived. I connected it to an 18V 800mA wall transformer to test it out. It kept turning on and off and after a while stayed off. Later I realised the transformer had broken. Then I tried a 19V 2.4A wall transformer. Again it kept turning on and off. When I switched the 2 wires around (+ and -) it worked fine. I had previously read somewhere that it didn't matter which way round you connected them. Turns out it does.

It's good but the nest aware sub is expensive I think!

It’s basically a 24/7 security cam with the nest aware sub so not just a doorbell really. The view is captures is a lot better than the ring, which is more an eye fish view. This is mine

I have also just bought this one from Costco. For me it just went on automatically. I visited the ring.com site, on my account it says I have 182 days until my trial ends.

So ive bought the ring doorbell and chime from costco (this deal) does anyone know how to activate the 6 month free cloud storage? As theres nothing in the box and Costco didn't know how to activate the free trial

I thought I saw £15 :/

Because of the 6 months cloud recording? There is a link on the main Ring website talking about special Costco bundles and mentions the ring 2 and 6 months on there? Is it possible this is just a standard ‘value add’ on any ring2 purchases via Costco? https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000909506-Ring-Protect-Plan-and-Costco-Bundles

A good deal compared to normal prices on screwfix but you can easily get one with two speakers for the same price online through ebay, amazon etc.

Just ordered code worked fine! Many thanks saved myself £50! x

Worked for me!! Nice one Smash77!

(cheeky)

We was talking about Costco membership lol I’ve already added Ring’s subscription to the extra info.

No. Membership allows you to access previous recordings for up to 30 days.