Ring Door Bell Now Takes over Property Lighting

Have had the Ring Door Bell and door surveillance working for several years now.   It's continued to add more sophisticated options to capture and manage video and security interactions. They have now added a number of battery powered and Wifi network connected devices to light up your outdoors at night,  and add to outdoor security and lighting convenience.  All controllable via motion sensors and Alexa voice commands. Light a path, entrance or a whole property.  Remotely access the lights, and the real time video from cameras or resulting video.  Have lights chained together in groups.

The doorbell part and cameras can create 'neighborhood watches' by connecting to other nearby users of the system.   I get several alerts there every week.  And somewhat controversially,  local police departments can join these neighborhoods,  to potentially request copies of videos captured.   My suburban police district just announced it has joined, so that must be fairly common.    Video examples of how this has been used in practice are here:  https://tv.ring.com/    Considerable detail about how this works at the link.

All this is fairly easy to install, especially if you already have assistant infrastructure in place, but you can run into situations where you might need some help.

The new lighting options are described here:  https://shop.ring.com/pages/smart-lighting

Here is a review of the added lighting network capabilities in DigitalTrends.