Ring panic button pro#
Ring panic button professional#

Someone standing right next to a Ring Doorbell It also hooks into any Ring doorbells and cameras you have, so that Ring staff can potentially allow them to check your video feeds for evidence of a break in (but only if you grant them permission to do this, of course). Ring will contact local law enforcement on your behalf if needed – but it instead only costs $20 per month, and it can also include monitoring for smoke/carbon monoxide, panic alarms and floods/freezing alerts too (if you buy separate sensors for these final three, that is). This is essentially what Ring’s “Professional Monitoring” offers – i.e. When the alarm detects something, the alarm company is notified and they then notify local law enforcement to attend your house (if needed). In ‘the old days’ this used to mean paying an alarm company $40+ per month to monitor your alarm system. Instead, you pay someone to monitor your system for you. The whole point of a home alarm system is that if you’re out or busy and someone tries breaking in, you wouldn’t want to be notified once you’re free again – the burglarly (or break-in attempt) could have finished by then. So is it now worth paying $20/month for Ring’s “professional monitoring” service? And what features do you get for $20/month, exactly?Ī security guard looking at camera feeds on computer monitors Only new customers are affected immediately – existing Alarm Customers will be grandfathered onto the new rates.īut even if you were an existing customer, you’ll be paying $20/month soon enough.

Ring panic button pro#

Notice how I say “ was“?! Unfortunately in 2021, Ring doubled the price of this service to $20 per month, as part of their move to the Ring Alarm Pro system. This is a pretty useful service, and for just $10/month, it was a lot cheaper than ADT’s $37-$53/month fees and SimpliSafe’s fees of $18-28/month. The initial callback is reliable, however some people have then found that follow-up calls aren’t quite as good.

Ring panic button professional#

Ring alarm’s professional monitoring is a genuine 24/7 monitoring system which has an average 30 second callback time after Ring are notified of an event. But what is “professional monitoring”, you ask? Well, the gist is… It was easy to install, and for just $10/month, you could get 24/7 professional monitoring to safeguard your home.

Ring released their smart alarm system back in July 2018, and it was fairly revolutionary. However you can’t blame me for thinking this when Ring used to only charge $10/month for Professional Monitoring, right? Actually, let’s back up a bit. Even though I’m only 31, I always feel old when I start a sentence with “Back in my day, things were so much better”.