Any opinions on these?
besides price?
I just loathe the prices that are being talked about simply for a doorbell. spending anything above £50 is not worth it over the benefit of a conventional doorbell.
Unless of course, you have a mansion and automatic gates to let in the peasants
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If you still have a ST hub, until HE gets Ring integration, I would think you'd be able to link Ring to ST, link the ST and HE hubs together, and access the Ring devices indirectly through that? Actually a new HE owner, converting quickly after buying a ST hub. I knew that Ring was at least partially supported in ST, so the plan for me was to either stay with ST if I liked it, or buy HE and try to link them together for devices the HE didn't support but the ST did.
I ended up building my own integration that, unfortunately, relies on Alexa. You can find the info at GitHub - dcmeglio/hubitat-ring
Another integration that doesn't use Alexa.
If you are mad that Hubitat isn't a Ring partner then you should be mad at Amazon and anything related to them aka Alexa. Ring isn't accepting any new partners. Period. Heard from an inside source the Ring partners page goes no where. It is lip service only or was an initiative for plans prior to the Amazon purchase of Ring.
I think that's pretty obvious now especially since the partners page is... gone.
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No HomeKit support. 
Something very cool just popped up in the Unifi Early Access store, for people looking for a doorbell.
I noticed that also, I use Unifi and have been waiting on this, but I can't find out if it has to be power by existing wires or if its battery.
It is not POE, it runs off the power of your existing doorbell over wifi.
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Yup, it won't get me to drop my ring even though I have all Ubiquiti network gear and security cameras here.
@cstory777 how do you like your cameras?
I have Ubiquiti Unifi network but still using old Costco AvertX cameras and NVR system which I think are terrible for the price.
Thinking of upgrading to a UniFi Cloud Key Gen2 Plus and g4-pro cameras.
FWIW, I just added 3 UVC-G3-Pro cameras and a G3-Flex, and I absolutely love them.
However, I've never bothered with cameras before, so i have nothing to compare them to!
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I love the cameras. Mine are all G3's mix of dome, bullet and flex and one G4 bullet. I had the cloud key gen 2, great product, but recently upgraded to their UDM Pro which has the NVR built in.
I've used numerous cameras over the years and Ubiquiti are the best so far.
I like the CK Gen 2, terrified of the UDM Pro. I've been down the unified device railroad entirely too many times. I'm running an Edgerouter Lite (ER3) and 3 AC hotspots and the CloudKey -- Just added a bunch of their switches (5 x Flex Minis and 3 x US-8's) gradually replacing my dumb switches.
Love their stuff. Not looking forward to the WiFi-6 transition though...going to be expensive to replace my Hot Spots!
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Are the G4 cameras noticibily better and worth the extra price?
Kind of odd the UDM pro with a built in NVR does not have a POE 8 port switch just a regular non POE switch.
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This is the one spot I think they dropped the ball with the udm pro. If it's got the built-in NVR, it should have POE for the switch to run the cameras. But I suppose if they put POE in as well it would just drive the price even higher.
Yeah, the G4's are 1 gig and because of that stream much better.
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