Ring Spotlight Cam Gets a Pro Upgrade With 3D Motion Radar, Bird's Eye View
If you're looking to upgrade your home security setup this fall, Amazon's Ring and Blink brands has several new ways to keep tabs on your packages as well as who's snooping around your yard.
Up first is a Pro version of the Ring Spotlight Cam that incorporates the 3D motion radar technology found on the pro versions of the Ring Video Doorbell and Floodlight Cam. It'll capture how people approach or wander around your property, letting you set a "specific threshold of when you want your camera to start detecting motion," Ring says. If it senses someone, it'll start recording and send an alert to your mobile device.
Ring Spotlight Cam Pro also includes Bird’s Eye View, which offers an aerial map of where visitors to your home go when they're on your property via gray dots that light up their path. Watch it in Live View or via Event History if you have a Ring Protect Plan.
Spotlight Cam Pro is available for pre-order now; a Battery and Plug-In version is $229.99, while a solar option is $249.99.
If you don't need to go Pro, save $30 with the new Spotlight Cam Plus, which gets a "new, sleek look," according to Ring, though it looks pretty similar to its predecessor. It still features Two-Way Talk, Color Night Vision, Live View, and a security siren. It'll be available in Solar, Battery, Wired, and Plug-In versions "in the coming months," Ring says, though you can pre-order now for $199.99.
It's not as fancy as a tricked-out panic room, but the second-gen Ring Alarm Panic Button can be mounted to your wall or placed on a flat surface and smashed when you're in distress. Setting options include Panic, Medical, or Fire, which you can set in the Ring app. It needs to be connected to a Ring Alarm Security Kit; and this
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