AIBU - Ring doorbells

I have a ring "type" doorbell. You can set the sensitivity so that it does not record cats, birds etc. Otherwise mine would be constantly alerting me to wildlife as there are trees and a business park behind. It does record everyone who walks past but certainly does not announce the fact. It only alerts me when someone actually presses the bell when my mobile device goes off, plays an annoying tune and I can talk to them (If I want to).

Many people think they only begin to record when the bell is pressed. Which means that people who dont want to be photographed just knock. If they dont ring there is a good chance I will miss them, so their problem. All the delivery people seem happy to ring the bell because it shows that they did attempt to deliver the package.

We have a ring doorbell and it doesn’t do that. It needs resetting. Our doorbell goes off if someone presses it, also we have Alexa telling us, all internally. If we go away, I can switch off Alexa and the doorbell. If someone comes into our front, we are informed with a noise, again internally, on our phones. There should be NO external noise, sounds as if it has been set up, incorrectly.

How awful. I would not be prepared to put up with that. As it has just been installed and it's a new piece of technology, perhaps your neighbour needs to read the instructions and turn the sound off.

That bouce can be turned off. It's a noise nuisance and why is it capturing movement outside your house, view should be restricted to the householders property.

Definitely speak to your neighbour as this entirely unacceptable.

Our doorbell packed in and DH got a replacement quickly. What he did not realise was it made other doorbells in our street ring as well. It also activated automatic locks on cars. He would not believe me at first but a friend popped in for a quick chat leaving her keys in the car when she went out her car was locked and she had to get her husband to bring the spare set. The bell went in the bin very quickly and we got a better one.

We get ours to announce on a couple of Alexas as well as make the noise.

Could you raise this noise with your neighbours? I would say it's disrupting your life as it's going off too loudly (and with animals and so on). Ask them to adjust their motion zones or "motion sensitivity" slider.

support.ring.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360040747611-Utilising-Customisable-Motion-Zones-with-your-Ring-Video-Doorbell-3

Mine makes a noise after it has been pressed but no more after that. That one needs to be adjusted.

We love ours and would hate to be without it.

Saw a disturbing programme about this kind of doorbell. This link sums up the warnings about them: www.makeuseof.com/why-you-should-not-get-ring-video-doorbell/

Ours doesn't do that.

Neither of my sons’ do that.

Needs adjusting for sure - not something I have come across from the ring doorbells I have encountered.

You are being entirely reasonable, it would drive me to distraction.

Needs adjusting?

My neighbours did that for a couple of days but they must of altered it because I don’t hear it now.

Ours doesn't do that.