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Well they're obviously not flipping in are they?

I'm going to have to redeliver it tomorrow!

A few moments later...

Ah! Thank you very much my friend - I really appreciate that!

That'S OK - where do you want me to put it?

If you just place it down there that would be brilliant.

I've just been jumping about on my trampoline and I didn't hear you.

That's a shame - it's a good job you had the Ring doorbell.

I do have a Ring doorbell.

Hello and welcome to the show!

My name is Alex and this is TechFlow!

This video is not sponsored by Ring in any way - we just wanted to have some fun in filming

this video.

Now let's talk about home smart tech.

You've got smart thermometers, you've got smart light bulbs, you're getting, like, smart

washing machines, smart tumble driers and smart dishwashers.

What, what's next?

The last thing you would think of is the doorbell - the doorbell on the front of your house.

How can this be smart?

This is the Ring doorbell.

Let's take a look at it.

So this is the Ring doorbell.

As you can see, it's a little larger than your standard doorbell but it looks fairly

nice and it comes in numerous different colours when you order it.

You guys can choose what would suit your house.

Now Ring connects to your home internet connection via WiFi via it's really simple set up on

iOS or Android and what it practically does is send you push notifications to your mobile

device as to whether it can detect motion at your front door, whether someone physically

presses the button and then you can see a live video feed of what is going on at your

front door.

You can two-way communicate so if the mail man is here and he's saying "Hi Alex, I've

got a parcel for you," I can be in the car and be speaking, speaking to him through the

doorbell saying: "Mate, stay there, I'll be back in two minutes, I'm just in the car."

And I can see him, I can see what's going on.

Now the first thing I thought of when I thought of getting the Ring doorbell was: How do you

wire this thing up, I bet it's really complicated.

But it's really not!

You actually need no cables at all.

There's two ways of doing this.

So, the Ring doorbell actually has a built in battery which can last up to seven days

in my testing and you charge it up via Micro USB; charge it up overnight, leave it for

seven days and it's your doorbell for seven days until you charge it again.

Or, if you have an existing doorbell, like I've done, you can take off your existing

doorbell, connect it up to this Ring doorbell and it will then power it 24/7 and will also

use the ringer inside of your house as well as the mobile app to contact you.

So let's look live at how this thing works.

It's a standard doorbell with one button, one camera, it looks cool; your postman comes

up, or whoever it is, they press it and it makes a beautiful little sound and does a little circle

and then your phone starts making a noise:

Bell, there's someone at your front door.

So what you can then do is swipe on that notification, enter your password, it will bring up a live

view of the front door.

You can do two way communication so I'll let you guys hear the audio quality of that now.

"Right so hey guys, my name is Alex and this is the Ring doorbell video/audio quality test.

Hopefully you can all hear me clearly."

"And this is the audio quality and video quality from the Ring doorbell playing back on my

iPhone 6S plus, live.

Let me know what you think in the comments section down below.

If there's one place this camera lacks, it's definitely in its video quality."

So this is the Ring doorbell app.

And this is really cool and really intuitive and it gives you a lot of information about

how to set up and monitor and maintain your Ring doorbell.

So, it's giving me information here telling me that my doorbell is hard-wired and not

using its internal battery which is correct.

I have hard-wired my Ring doorbell into my system.

You can turn off ring alerts so if you don't want to get ring alerts for the day, you can

turn them off.

I prefer to keep them on all the time though.

You can get motion alerts, you can set up motion settings, so you can do zones, smart

alerts and there's also video tutorials all the way around the app which is brilliant.

You can view your recent activity.

This is brilliant so you can get all, rings, motion or live view.

Let's look at "rings" first.

So these are all of the rings here and it tells you if the ring has been accepted and

the door's been opened or if the ring was missed.

And on any of these activities, you can click on them and it will play back live the activity

as to what was there.

You can also see if people have been using the live view function which, yes, you don't

have to have the ring doorbell detect motion or someone to press it to look at the camera

- you can physically click on live view and just have a live view of the camera on the

driveway or wherever you have your Ring doorbell placed.

You can click the "talk" button and you can then hear what's on the driveway and now my

voice is also coming out on to the driveway.

You can also set up shared users: so it can go to maybe your wife's phone or your husband's

phone or anyone's phone in the family who lives in the house.

You can have them all linked up so as soon as someone presses the doorbell or as soon

as motion is detected, everyone gets the same alert.

Now to take advantage of the live playback features so the camera actually records and

you can play back on your mobile device all of the activities, rings and live motion you

have to pay a subscription fee and it is really, really not a big deal, coming in at $30 per

year.

You may as well just pay it.

So just as I thought smart homes couldn't get any smarter, now my doorbell is communicating

with my phone!

Incredible stuff really.

My name's been Alex, this has been TechFlow and we'll catch you in the next one.