![]() Recommendable for its simple installation, expandable design, battery and mobile backups, and integration with other Ring devices, it really is difficult to fault Ring Alarm – especially when you consider the affordable asking price and the entirely usable functionality without a paid subscription. There is one other option for audio settings, but regardless of what this is set to the siren will sound at maximum volume when triggered. This is pretty much a set-and-forget solution, with little in the way of customisation available in the app – but, then, what would you actually wish to customise? You can update the firmware, manage linked devices and shared users, reduce the keypad brightness and test the siren. In Away mode the motion sensor is also activated. ![]() In Home mode the alarm is triggered only when the contact sensor is activated, for example when the front door is opened. ![]() If you’re wondering why you might want to turn on the house alarm while you’re still home, know that Ring Alarm has two working modes: Home and Away. Using Alexa to disarm the alarm is less successful, since you have to provide a voice code – in essence a PIN – which is no longer a secret once you’ve said it out loud. Unsurprisingly, given the Amazon link, there’s no support for Google Assistant, but if you have any Alexa-integrated devices in your home such as theĮcho Dot 3 you can use it to set the alarm. This alarm system doesn’t support fobs, but there are three ways to interact with Ring Alarm and all are equally simple: through the physical keypad, through the Ring app, and through Alexa. Mesh system meant it was not necessary to install this component. The range extender is handy if you have connectivity deadspots in your home. Standing at the end of our drive we were barely able to hear the siren, and on busy roads it will almost certainly be drowned out – but in the home it is loud. It’s also our one major gripe with Ring Alarm: loud enough to warn off any intruders once inside your home, it’s not sufficient for alerting the neighbours to what’s unfolding next door. This base station is the alarm unit itself, which sounds at 104dB. With Ring Protect Plus should your internet go down you will get an alert on your phone thanks to its mobile backup (which we discovered when we forgot to pay the broadband bill!). The base station is installed first, mains-powered but with a 24-hour backup battery, paired to your phone over Bluetooth so that you can connect it to your home internet connection, either over Wi-Fi or Ethernet. The Ring app is necessary for setup and, though the process took us around half an hour to complete, configuration is simple with Ring guiding you through each step, from connecting the base unit and keypad to pairing door contact sensors and motion detectors.
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