Ring Always Home Cam drone: What is it, and how to sign up for an invitation

Band E'er Dwelling Cam drone: What is information technology, and how to sign upwardly for an invitation

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A yr afterwards it was first announced, Band's Always Dwelling house Cam flying camera drone will finally be available for purchase — for those few who are invited.

Instead of installing dwelling security cameras all around your house, the Ring Always Home Cam is a drone that can requite yous a bird's eye view of anywhere inside your domicile, from wherever y'all are.

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Ring Ever Domicile Cam: Design

The Ring Always Abode Cam drone uses a quadcopter design, with the rotors housed in a protective basket. Below the rotors is a compartment that houses the bombardment and 1440x1440 HD camera with a 120-degree field of view, both vertically and horizontally. A built-in LED helps illuminate subjects in low light, and information technology has both 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi.

The drone docks in a white base when it needs to recharge. The drone itself measures 7.5 ten 7.5 ten five.4 inches; the dock is 7.five 10 7.v x 4.74 inches.

It as well has obstruction abstention technology and so it won't bump into walls and such. When you lot get-go use the device, it creates a map of your home, so you tin can direct it to get to specific rooms.

Ring Always Habitation Cam: How it works

The E'er Home Cam has a flying time of about five minutes; owners can program up to l dissimilar flight paths into the drone.

If yous take a Band Alarm system, the drone can be programmed to automatically wing to where the disturbance was detected. That'south sure to be a rude surprise for whatever intruder or teen trying to sneak back into your house. Y'all tin also manually wing the drone around to check on things while you're not home.

Nosotros'll add together more to this as we learn additional details about the Ring Always Home Cam. It's an interesting idea, but we'll wait to see how practical — and how creepy — information technology is to use. While other companies have tried this concept with outdoor drones, but the low price of Band's drone makes it more intriguing, and kinda creepy, too.

On Amazon's page, information technology notes that the Ring Always Home Cam will only work on one level of your home, so information technology can't get up and downwardly stairs.

Amazon as well notes that the Always Home Cam is nearly as loud as a vacuum cleaner or a blender, and is only intended to fly when you're non at dwelling. Your pets may accept some time to arrange to the sound and sight of it flying through your house.

Ring Always Home Cam: Price and how to get an invite

The Ring Always Home Cam will cost $249, and is an invitation-only device at this time; here'southward how to use for the invitation.

Michael A. Prospero is the deputy editor at Tom's Guide overseeing the abode, smart domicile, drones, and fitness/wearables categories, every bit well as all buying guides and other evergreen content. When he'due south not testing out the latest running lookout man, skiing or training for a marathon, he'due south probably using the latest sous vide machine or some other cooking gadget.