Ring Pro doorbell in Ireland

Just a note the chime is available on Amazon

Ring Chime - White https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01EKA9VAA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_6u7Gyb9TTDBE2

25 pounds at the time of posting

yesap wrote:

Thanks, must have picked that up wrong from the ring site. Appeared from reading that they were providing a free chime to European customers as the jump up in voltage and addition of transformer would mean some existing chimes would not work.

Yeah it works exactly like the other one except that it has to be wired there's no option.

With the standard one, like mine you can mount it anywhere within wifi range and pop a chime in the house.

This one will need to be powered by the wiring
However I assume you can give it 16V but just use the wifi chime


But if you have a regular Doorbell wired up this should be a like for like the exchange.

Dummy wrote:

I need an IFTTT then IFTTT.

No, this is simple enough.

Make the event in lightwaverf

Call it light timer for example
Set it to

Turn on light
Add a delay 30 seconds
Turn off light

Then set up the IFTTT applet but load up the events channel and use the light timer event

john4321 wrote:

Can I ask any existing users did the 24V transformer from Amazon work ok? Plan is to just power the unit directly and use a chime as the bell. Currently have an 8V transformer I plan to swap out.

I'm confused, if you are powering the uint directly why are you swapping out the 8V traffo? Surely it would be redundant.

If you are changing the traffo surely you are just leaving your existing wiring as is, changing out the traffo and wiring the ring unit up exactly like your old door bell?

Am I missing something?

john4321 wrote:

I was under the impression the Ring needed an input voltage of 24V so the new transformer would step down the voltage from 230V to 24V. I didnt think 8V was enough to power the unit?

There's guys here powering it from. 12V. The recommended range is 16 to 24V

You are correct 8V is not enough. However if you have the traffo replaced you just need to swap your bell push for the ring unit, it was the independently powered remark you made that confused me, sorry, you still intend to just power it from the fuse board.

Some people are powering them from a plug in unit, and just buying the ring chime,linking the ring bell to the ring chime over wifi.

But you old door bell will still ring, you won't need the ring chime unless you want it as an additional unit, your old door bell will be faster than the ring chime though,

john4321 wrote:

Thanks for the reply and appreciate the advise. Yes I intend to power it from the fuse board. I will just wire in the new transformer as the cable is already ran to the front door from the fuse board. Ill be ditching the old bell though and just use the chimes the few second delay is not an issue for me.

I ditched my old door bell too. It was big plastic box with battery space, turns out getting them without battery space and looking OK was more difficult than I thought.

I ended up with a small chrome buzzer that I stuck to the side of the fuse board cabinet.

It was 6 euro on Amazon, it's just a buzzing sound not as loud as the old bell but it's good back up if wifi is down , with the buzzer and the alerts on two phones we don't miss any calls to the door, with the phone giving us notification of a call and the buzzer in the hall I'd have no use for the chime, they are a bit bulky IMO and take up a socket 24/7

Someone attempted to open my car , have it on the camera.