RingSmart Lighting – Outdoor Motion-Sensor, Black (Bridge required)

Purchased this sensor to activate outdoor lighting using Alexa but was hesitant that it wouldn't work the way I was hoping. Man was I wrong. This was the ONLY outdoor motion sensor I could find that works with Alexa and has seamless integration with other smart devices (through Alexa). Connected outdoor lights to outdoor smart plug, installed Ring bridge (req'd even with Alexa) and Ring motion sensor, and added all those smart devices to Alexa and made a routine to power the smart plug when motion is detected. Even added a condition in Alexa to only perform the routine during nighttime hours and added a second routine to power off the smart plug after 1min of no motion detected. So not only will the motion sensor trigger the lights, but I can have Alexa turn them on and off via voice command.Gotta love these smart devices! Next up is to trigger a siren when someone walks up on my deck at night!

I purchased this to work in conjunction with a battery powered Ring solar floodlight, both of which are mounted to trees halfway down my driveway.I was worried that the sensor would not be able to serve my needs due to the distance of its placement from the bridge and also its being powered by only 3 AAA batteries.After more than a month of daily heavy use with all settings on the most power demanding option, I can report that the batteries (rechargeables) are reading 54%, the connection strength to the Ring bridge is "fair", and that the floodlight activates very quickly after motion is detected.Additionally, the senor detects motion of the type and distance that I would expect without giving me too many unnecessary alerts. Vehicles and people are detected at approximately 15 yards but it is not triggered by leaves falling etc. This product is highly recommended and may resolve any detection issues you may be having with another Ring product.I have included a screenshot from the satellite view of my property which is in a rural and heavily wooded area. The "o" denotes the location of the bridge with each "x" being the floodlight and sensor, the latter of which is farthest from the bridge.

Updated review (original review below). I was contacted by an executive Ring support person. He was very helpful and explained that the original replacement wasn't ordered for some reason. The replacement arrived a few days later. It is working well.Original review:This thing only worked for around 6 months, and then stopped working completely. During that 6 months it gave false alerts constantly for motion of shadows from clouds and the sun. Then it completely died, no motion detection at all. Called Ring support and they said they would send a replacement. That was months ago and no replacement came.

This sensor works good. It truly took care my blind spots, Battery life is really good, and looks good also. This is a 5 out of 5 for me. I highly recommend to other customers. Good stable product.👍🏽.

I bought two motion sensors to control outdoor lighting. However, the motion detection often doesn't work when it should, regardless of the sensitivity. When I increase sensitivity it triggers too often but at other times still fails. It is just impossible to configure it in a way that it would reliably detect a person which is its only job.The light sensitivity setting also simply doesn't work: The sensor still triggers in bright daylight when it shouldn't.Also, battery life is disastrous: It is advertised as about a year but for me it's a few weeks max (even less in winter).This motion detector has a single job and it fails completely at that.

During daylight hours, it works pretty well. Only detects motion within about 10 feet during darkness.Update: Was impressed when ring support contacted me after seeing my i initial review. Unfortunately, they didn’t provide any meaningful solution to the limited detection range at night. Didn’t even offer to replace the sensor in the event it was defective, so I assume that it a limitation of the design. I have outside security cameras that detect motion, 50 to 60 feet away in darkness, not sure why the ring technology is so inferior.Pretty useless as a means of triggering outside security lights when an intruder has to get within 5 feet of the sensor.Update #2: I was contacted by ring again. They explained that the way I was trying to use this device was not what it was designed for. While they were unable to improve the limitations on motion detection at night for this device, I’m happy to say they provided a great alternative.

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I had a problem with the motion sensor that I bought to replace one that stopped working. After replacing the battery it still didn’t work. After leaving bad review Ring contacted me to trouble shoot. After another battery replacement the issue was resolved. Very happy it is working and that customer service was excellent.