Ring Smart Lighting System

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The Ring smart lighting system allows you to create a network of motion-based security lights for the outside of your home.

The Ring smart lighting system joins the company’s impressive list of security devices and is designed to help keep your home safe and well-lit. It’s a DIY outdoor smart lighting setup that you can expand as needed by adding components including floodlights, spotlights, spotlights, and step lights, and they interact with security cameras. The Ring, as well as Amazon Alexa voice commands. Components range in price from $24.99 to $69.99, and since most of them are battery-powered, you need only a quick install.

Design and Features

The whole idea behind the Ring Smart Lighting System is to create a network of lights that use motion sensors to illuminate outdoor areas around your home, such as your backyard, driveway, stairs, and aisle. Each light works independently as a motion-activated light, but you have to connect them to the Ring Bridge ($49.99) to make them smart. Once connected, you can create groups in which all lights in the group will turn on when one light detects motion. Bridge also lets you control the lights using the Ring app and Alexa voice commands, and it gives you the ability to link the lights to Ring cameras like the Ring Doorbell Pro, Ring Floodlight Cam, and Ring Stickup Cam. Once linked, you can ask the camera to record a video when the light detects motion.

The Bridge is small and is intended for indoor use only. It measures 2.3 x 2.4 x 0.7 inches (HWD) and features a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi radio to connect to your home network and a Wi-Fi-enabled Ring camera. It also has an RF radio to communicate with the lights. There are two signal strength LEDs on the front and a mini USB power port on the bottom. You can only install one Bridge per household, but it will connect up to 50 smart lights and motion sensors.

There are currently four different types of battery-powered lighting components available for the Ring Smart Lighting System, including Floodlight Batteries ($49.99), Pathlight Batteries ($29.99), Steplight Batteries ($24.99), and Steplight Batteries ($24.99), and Spotlight Pin ($34.99). The Floodlight Wired ($69.99) requires an electrical cord, the Transformer ($99.99), which connects non-Ring lighting fixtures to the Ring system. The Battery-powered Motion Sensor ( $24.99) will activate the Ring light and other Ring devices it is linked to. Each lighting element also has a motion sensor that activates its light and activates other Ring lights and devices.

Unlike the Ring Spotlight Cam Battery, which comes with a rechargeable battery pack, you’ll have to provide your battery for all of these devices. According to Ring, you can expect one year of battery life per device.

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The Spotlight battery is available in black or white, uses four D-cell batteries, and measures 6.4 x 3.8 x 4.6 inches. It uses a dimmable 400 lumen LED bulb with a 3,500K white color temperature, and its motion sensor has a 120-degree field of view and a 30-foot range. Spotlight comes with a screwdriver, mounting hardware, user manual, and security sticker.

Pathlight batteries are ideal for lighting walkways and driveways. An 80 lumen dimmable LED bulb with 3,500K white color sits inside a 4.1 x 4.1-inch fixture and is attached to a pole that holds the four D-cell batteries needed to power the lights. The Pathlight has a motion sensor with a 140-degree field of view and a 15-foot range and has a dusk-to-dawn glow setting that keeps the light on at reduced brightness at night. When motion is detected, it automatically adjusts to full brightness. Pathlight comes with an instruction manual, a spike, and a security sticker.

The Floodlight battery measures 5.5 x 10.4 x 4.6 inches (HWD) and comes in white or black. It is equipped with two dimmable LEDs providing 600 lumens of 3,500K white light (dimmable) and an adjustable motion sensor with a 180-degree field of view and 45-foot range. It uses four D-cell batteries and comes with a screwdriver, mounting screw, user manual, and security sticker. Floodlight Wired is also available in white or black and measures 7.0 x 8.3 x 7.2 inches (HWD). It uses two LED bulbs to deliver 2,000 lumens of 3,500K white light, and its motion sensor has a 180-degree field of view and a 70-foot range. This light also comes with installation tools and screws, an instruction manual, and a security sticker.

The small Steplight battery is designed to illuminate stairs, walkways, and floors when motion is detected. It comes in black or white and measures only 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.8 inches. It produces 35 lumens with a white temperature of 3,500K and has a motion sensor with a 120-degree field of view and a 15-foot range. It uses three C-cell batteries and provides the same dusk-to-dawn glow as the Pathlight. Inside the box are the installation tools and screws, the user manual, and the security sticker.

The Motion Sensor doesn’t illuminate anything, but it does provide an early trigger for smart lights and other Ring devices. It measures 2.8 x 2.4 x 2.3 inches, comes in black or white, and has a 120-degree field of view and a 15-foot range. The sensor is powered by three AAA batteries and comes with mounting tools and screws, a user manual, and a security sticker.

The smart lighting system uses the same mobile apps for Android and iOS as other Ring devices. With the app open, you can access the lights by tapping the Lights tab near the top of the screen. You can turn all lights on or off and turn motion alerts on or off. Here you can also use General to create a motion alert schedule and add devices to the group, enable motion detection for the group, set Snooze Alerts (15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour), 2 hours) and configure the Automatic Interrupt Timer determines how long the light will stay on after motion is detected (30 seconds, 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes). Tapping on any light name allows you to configure these settings for that particular light, check battery health, turn lights on and off, adjust brightness and motion sensitivity.

While you can control smart lights with Alexa, you can’t use Google Assistant or Siri voice commands, and you can’t add them to your HomeKit system. Furthermore, unlike other Ring devices, smart lights do not support IFTTT apps allowing them to work with other IFTTT devices.

where can you get a Ring Smart Lighting System online

Ring Smart Lighting – Spotlight, Battery-Powered, Outdoor Motion-Sensor Security Light, White (Bridge required): Buy it now

Ring Smart Lighting – Bridge, White: Buy it now

Ring Smart Lighting – Low Voltage Lighting Transformer (12-15V, 200W), black (Starter Kit): Buy it now

Settings and Performance

Ring sent me Bridge, Motion Sensor, Pathlight, and Spotlight for this review. As is the case with other Ring devices I’ve reviewed, they’re all very easy to set up. I already have the Ring app on my phone, but you’ll have to download the mobile app and create an account if this is your first Ring device.

I open the app, tap the three bars in the upper left corner, and tap Device setup. I selected the Smart Lighting Bridge from the list, verified my location, and scanned the QR code on the back of the Bridge with my phone’s camera. I plugged in the Bridge and waited a few seconds for the LED to flash blue, then selected my home Wi-Fi SSID when prompted. I hit Next and waited a few more seconds for the Bridge to connect to my network, then a few minutes for the Bridge to calibrate.

Next, I clicked Setup a Device again and selected Smart Lighting from the list. I verified my location and used my phone’s camera to scan the QR code on the included card. I inserted four D-cell batteries (not included), pressed continue, and waited about 30 seconds for Spotlight to calibrate. The light flashed twice, and I was prompted to choose a name for the lighting group and for Spotlight, which was now added to the Ring app and automatically added to my list of Alexa devices. Alexa verified this by telling me that Spotlight was ready to turn on and off with my voice. I was then prompted to link Spotlight to other Ring devices, which I did.

I attached the Spotlight to the side of my house using the included mounting screws and repeated the setup process for the Pathlight and motion sensor. I placed the Pathlight next to an entrance in the backyard and placed the Motion Sensor near my front door.

The Ring smart lighting system worked flawlessly in my tests. Each light responded instantly to my on and off commands using the mobile app and Alexa voice commands. I also had no trouble adjusting the brightness level with Alexa commands. Motion detection works perfectly — Pathlight and Spotlight are enabled each time their respective motion sensors are activated, as well as when independent motion sensors are activated. Push alerts also arrived quickly.

I linked the Motion Sensor, Pathlight, and Spotlight to the Ring Stick Up Cam and Ring Floodlight Cam, and they work together perfectly. Turning on the Floodlight Cam’s lights whenever motion is detected on the smart light and enable recording on both the Floodlight Cam and the Stick Up Cam.

Conclusion

With the Ring Smart Lighting System, you can easily enhance your home’s outdoor security with motion-based lighting. Whether you want to illuminate your driveway, stairs, or patio area, there’s an option designed to light your way, and with most of these DIY devices, you don’t have to run any wires. When paired with Ring Bridge, you can link smart lights together to control them as a group, and one light activates another, and you can use Alexa voice commands to turn lights on and off and adjust the brightness level. You can also link these lights to your Ring doorbell and camera to trigger video recording when motion is detected. It would be nice if Ring added support for IFTTT apps so you can do things like turn on the lights when unlocking or when the alarm goes off.

Advantages

Easy to install.

Reasonable parts prices.

Works with Alexa voice commands.

Integration with other Ring devices.

Defect

No rechargeable battery pack.

Request a bridge for smart features.

Does not support HomeKit or IFTTT.