Ring Video Doorbell Elite
$349.99
Price: $349.99
(as of Sep 22, 2025 02:13:45 UTC – Details)
Connect your Ring doorbell with Alexa to hear announcements on your compatible Echo device when your doorbell is pressed and see a live view of your camera if you have an Echo device with a screen. Talk to visitors by saying “Alexa, talk to the front door”
Lets you see, hear and speak to visitors from your phone, tablet and PC
Sends alerts as soon as motion is detected or when visitors press the Doorbell
Connects to ethernet cables for power and internet connection
Monitors your home in 1080HD video with infrared night vision
Save your recorded videos for up to 180 days to rewatch any time, get alerts for people and package, and so much more with a Ring Home subscription (sold separately).
Includes privacy features, such as customizable privacy zones and audio privacy, to focus only on what’s relevant to you.
Customers say
Customers find the doorbell’s video quality amazing and appreciate its fantastic camera and clean appearance. The functionality receives mixed feedback, with some saying it works every time while others report it malfunctioning. Installation experiences are mixed, with some finding it easy while others find it too difficult. The internet connection and delay aspects also get mixed reviews, with customers reporting connection problems and a slight delay. Customers consider the product not worth the high price.
Paige L. –
Good doorbell cam
Works really well. Image is clear, and havenât noticed any lags. Our doorbell got wired strangely low, so I was worried about that but the image has a wide span and hasnât been an issue at all.
Stepuptothemike –
One of a kind doorbell for its features
The Ring Elite the only video doorbell that can be connected to your internet Wi-Fi through an ethernet cable, giving you piece of mind for continuous connection and is also powered by the ethernet cable. Video quality is very good, and the camera captures a wide view. The detection is pretty instant with minimal delay. Additionally, this doorbell can be connected to a real chime. The app is nice, but you have to subscribe to obtain video clips. Although very expensive, it is a very good doorbell overall.
Frank H. –
A great upgrade with hard wiring
Worth the cost and hiring a qualified electrician.When set up properly, allows us to answer the doors from anywhere and monitor what is happening on our property.Clear imagery and consistent performer.I waited a few years and the wait was worth it. The new and improved Ring hard wired to our Router ensures great performance
Slavko Antolos –
Ring Elite.
What a difference. No more lag time, or poor connection. Ultra clear video and sound. I even went ahead and ran an either net cable to the router which made it bulletproof.
TangoZulu –
So Far, Very Good
I am a systems/web programmer, and I am always cautious about devices that are complex and have potential security implications. We have many “smart” devices in our home, but we are careful about what we install, and try to avoid anything important that relies on WiFi, with the associated reliability and security issues. For that reason, we have avoided video doorbells until now. We have a new house, which was not set up for a doorbell, except for a CAT-6 cable to the front door, so it was clear what was intended. I decided on the Ring elite because of the Ethernet connection, which improves both reliability and security. The build quality is very good, the device is attractive, and the installation proceeded exactly as described with no issues. Make sure you have sufficient room behind the electrical box; a shallow box will not do! If you have to install in a concrete wall, you will need to have a deep recess (I spent hours “chipping” concrete before we could install it). Motion sensing seems to work well, but we turned it off because of wildlife on the property. The first night, it woke us up three times; two with a frog crawling over the lens, and once with the deer! We did have one app crash on the second day, and had to delete and re-install the app, but we have not had any problems since. Access “sharing” with others was a little problematic, and appeared to be related to the app crash, so we gave the account number to the rest of the members of the family, and that has worked fine. The doorbell signal seems reliable. We installed the Ring Chime unit, so that we did not have to have the phone to know the doorbell had been rung. The chime installed and worked without issue. It is unfortunate that Ring does not provide a chime with Ethernet connectivity (the device only works with WiFi). There is only a slight delay (1-2 seconds) between the button press and the ring on the phone and chime. Voice communication is loud enough, clear enough, and has a short enough delay to be reasonable and useful. A big plus for us is that the Ring app apparently will support multiple devices, so if we continue to have good reliability, we will consider installing additional units at the gates, which are a considerable distance from the house (fortunately, we also have CAT-6 to the gates, so we will not have to rely on WiFi there either). My advice is to make sure you have very good bandwidth, at least on your local network. Video devices in general tend to become very cranky and troublesome if they do not have sufficient bandwidth; they generally do not degrade gracefully, and I suspect the Ring is no exception. The “smarter” they are, the more likely you are to have trouble, and the Ring is pretty smart. The ring app has functions to control other kinds of devices, but we will not do that; I deleted all those shortcuts. I am convinced (from extensive programming experience) that the more “stuff” you add to an app the more likely you are to have conflicts, bugs, and problems. The device does have artificial intelligence functions, such as recognition of people (as opposed to deer) but we have not yet tested that. My overall assessment remains that if you want the highest reliability, use a standard wired doorbell. If you need video, or want remote access, the Ring Elite is “not perfect, but much better than expected so far.” Personally, I would still stay away from video doorbells that rely on WiFi, and I certainly would not integrate them with door locks or anything with security implications.
Dr Stone –
Obsolete device with overloaded cloud service
When you want to view the live video, the app screen shows “activating device” for 5-10 seconds and sometimes it times out, so you have to reopen the app and do it again, and when it finally connects, your visitor might be long gone. I owned a few ring devices and thought that this was because of my Wifi. Now I have this $550 device connected via the optical cable internet with near perfect connection to the same network my other cameras like Nest are connected too. I still have this “activating device” screen and same connection issues with this expensive device. So, I had to install a Nest camera, which I now prefer to use, because: 1. It connects faster and with no issues 2. I can quickly rewind the video a few seconds back to the start of the event. The ring camera does have an advantage over the Nest in that I receive the motion alerts to my phone a few seconds earlier with the Ring, but I find myself opening the Nest camera instead of the Ring because of this dreaded “activating device” screen. The ring support can argue with me that it could be the quality of my network connection, but I do receive the alerts faster with the Ring while I can open the Nest video using the same connection much faster. So, my conclusion is that the Ring connection issue happens because of poorly executed and unreliable cloud service which starts to act badly because of so many ring customers are using it at the same time and the Ring network probably does not have the quality software engineering and hardware capacity to fix this issue. My decision is that this old expensive device with poor video quality will go to the garbage as soon as the next Nest doorbell camera is released. The Ring doorbell is doomed unless they fix their engineering issues.
J. J. English –
Revised Review
I bought and installed three Video Doorbell Elites back in May 2023. Had I written this review a week ago, I would have given them 5 stars. However, one died a couple of days ago, and all the resetting/troubleshooting won’t bring it back. Two years for a $300+ device is too short! If I had only the one, I’d give it 1-star, but since the two others have been working flawlessly, I give the group 3-stars and cross my fingers they and the replacement i just bought last longer.UPDATE: I happily revise my review to 5-stars. Ring customer service contacted me within 24 hours of my review posting. After verifying my device failed, Ring sent a warranty replacement that arrived the next day. Iâm flawlessly up and running again.