Forget it if you want it to work with the Echo, at least so far. Ring was bought by Amazon, but the integration is badly lacking. You can apparently enable the Ring skill if you have an Echo Show or one of the video units as well as a Fire TV, but while you can then see who is at the door you can't communicate with them (at least not yet). I have one of the original Ring Video Doorbells at home and had a Ring Pro at my business. At my store we had nothing but issues with the Ring Pro and 90% of the time it would not stay connected to our WiFi even though I bought what is one of the best routers out there and placed it 10 feet away from the doorbell. A month or so ago I finally decided enough was enough and there really wasn't much benefit in this thing if it didn't work most of the time and I bought a Nest Hello. We installed it and it's been rock solid on the sameWiFi ever since. I should mention that in between I had also gotten my alarm company to send me what they use and which integrates with Alarm.com and that is the Honeywell Skybell HD. It didn't do much better than the Ring and one feature which was a deal breaker for me was the fact that you can't answer a ring and then talk to the person on an open two-way line, with the Skybell you can hear the person but if you want to talk you have to tap and hold a button in the app sort of like a WalkieTalkie. The Ring has some nice features especially when it comes to sounds and the fact that you can also get Chimes which connect to your WiFi, but the Nest Hello is also nice in that you can tell it who certain people are it sees and it then recognizes them and tells you whatever name you give them. For example, if I arrive at my store it tells my wife and my manager on their app that "The Big Boss" has arrived *smile*. I also found that with the Nest Hello I can actually answer a call easily and quickly enough so that I can talk to the person who rang the doorbell before they decide nobody is home and walk off. Our original Ring doorbell at home sits there for almost half a minute saying "activating device" by which time most people are long gone. I am planning to replace my original Ring at home with the Ring Pro I removed from the store to see if it works any better here than it did at the store for whatever reason, but unless it does I'll eventually will buy another Nest Hello for at home as well. If you have a Google Home speaker you can set it up so that it announces if somebody rings the doorbell, but at this point you can also not yet tell the Google Home to answer that ring and talk to the person, hopefully this will be a feature which is coming. As for app accessibility both are OK, not fantastic, but OK.
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