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02-07-2020, 03:43 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2018
Posts: 1,001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrapr
... By then the video has loaded & I see that a guy had walked up to the front door, stepped up on the sill & peeked in the door glass. For about 20 seconds. ...
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This is why I don't like glass in my front door.
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02-07-2020, 05:36 AM
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#22
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 86
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I like my Ring doorbell. I have it linked in to a Samsung SmartThings hub, so when the Ring detects motion between 9 pm and 6 am, it turns on the living room and kitchen lights for 1 minute and then turns them off.
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02-07-2020, 06:27 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: DuPage County IL
Posts: 2,697
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to the OP...Ring has released a new companion app called RAPID RING. it processes the live video stream much, much faster. you still use the original Ring app to view previous clips and to adjust settings.
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Ham Radio, Sport Pilot, RVer
FIRE: 8/11/2005, age 55y,1d
Dispatcher, then shift supv, then administrator for a regional 9-1-1 call center
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02-07-2020, 07:21 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,065
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lol
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02-07-2020, 10:09 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2008
Location: No fixed abode
Posts: 8,764
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Just_Steve
But the word should be schwanz not schwartz.
Schwanz = penis
Schwartz = Black
Schwanz m (genitive Schwanzes, plural Schwänze, diminutive Schwänzchen n)
A tail.
(informal, mildly vulgar) a cock, a penis.
(derogatory, of a person) A prick.
Was will der Schwanz von mir?
What does this prick want from me?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by audreyh1
That really had me confused. I was thinking - black?
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You people are obviously not well versed in classic cinema.
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02-07-2020, 10:12 AM
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#26
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 18,085
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis Clark
This is why I don't like glass in my front door.
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The front door in my house is likely original to 1971. I kind of would like to replace it with something spiffier, but it is solid wood and heavy, with no glass. When you shut it you get a "dread portal" thump. All plusses in my mind, and I shudder to think what it would cost to replace it with something new of similar quality. Of course, the easily accessible large windows on the front of the house sort of kill any semblance of security.
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02-07-2020, 10:25 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2013
Location: ATL --> Flyover Country
Posts: 6,649
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One of things that I do like about Ring is that you can download the app and see alerts from the PD and nearby neighbors. We have a fairly robust monitoring system on our home, but don't have the Ring...but many of the folks around us do and it's good for situational awareness.
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02-07-2020, 10:34 AM
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#28
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: On a hill in the Pine Barrens
Posts: 9,669
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Quote:
Originally Posted by harley
You people are obviously not well versed in classic cinema.
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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Schwartz
Every comment needs a ref, obviously.
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02-07-2020, 10:40 AM
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#29
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Spending the Kids Inheritance and living in Chicago
Posts: 16,972
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ExFlyBoy5
One of things that I do like about Ring is that you can download the app and see alerts from the PD and nearby neighbors. We have a fairly robust monitoring system on our home, but don't have the Ring...but many of the folks around us do and it's good for situational awareness.
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So are you saying without paying anything, you can see the alerts from PD and neighbors ?
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02-07-2020, 10:42 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2013
Location: ATL --> Flyover Country
Posts: 6,649
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunset
So are you saying without paying anything, you can see the alerts from PD and neighbors ?
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Yes. I *think* the neighbors have to agree to share the videos, but it's not a bad service for being free.
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02-07-2020, 12:44 PM
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#31
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2017
Posts: 98
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Just_Steve
But the word should be schwanz not schwartz.
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I imagine Brooks used "schwartz" because it is phonetically closer to "force."
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02-07-2020, 03:05 PM
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#32
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Nashville
Posts: 519
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I wonder if the PD checked his backpack. Break in tools? Tuna sandwich?
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02-07-2020, 03:26 PM
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#33
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Dutchess County
Posts: 1,599
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Quote:
Originally Posted by harley
You people are obviously not well versed in classic cinema.
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I guess not.
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02-07-2020, 05:58 PM
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#34
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 953
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Our last dog would love anyone that would pet him, but you would never know that from the ruckus he would raise if someone knocked on the door or rang the door bell.
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02-07-2020, 06:12 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: DuPage County IL
Posts: 2,697
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any Ring user can post one of their Ring videos or simply a text-only to "the neighborhood".
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Ham Radio, Sport Pilot, RVer
FIRE: 8/11/2005, age 55y,1d
Dispatcher, then shift supv, then administrator for a regional 9-1-1 call center
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02-07-2020, 06:52 PM
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#36
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Limerick
Posts: 5,633
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I don’t have a ring, but I have Nest cameras and doorbell. I caught a UPS driver trying to make off with some of my medications. He stopped in front of the house. I got the email saying the package was delivered. He drove away without getting out of the truck.
I called UPS and reported it. At first they claimed it had been delivered. When I mentioned medication and video, it got their attention. The driver came back twenty minutes later with my medication. I haven’t seen him since.
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02-07-2020, 08:04 PM
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#37
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Kaneohe
Posts: 371
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I don't care who's at out door. When we get home, I just set my system to shine two very-bright lights at whomever is there after dark, & let my video camera catch their looks of shock.
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02-14-2020, 04:14 PM
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#38
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Far NW 'burbs of Chicago
Posts: 897
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrapr
Last night about 11:15 pm I'm in bed about to turn over & go to sleep & the Ring app alerts me to motion in front. It's takes a minute to load so I go to the door, look out & don't see much. I step out on the porch and look both ways and don't see anything. By then the video has loaded & I see that a guy had walked up to the front door, stepped up on the sill & peeked in the door glass. For about 20 seconds.
I call the PD and then have the guy stopped & questioned in about 15 minutes. He gave them a BS story about a wrong address. He gave them an address on the other side of the highway. By the way he stepped off the 1 front step I'd guess he was intoxicated. He was kind enough to turn around & give a full body shot to the video doorbell
Took me about an hour to get settled & back to bed
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Just a thought-
Unless your porch area is well-lit and has no bushes or other hiding places nearby, I'd stay inside the house and check it out a much as possible from there.
Even if you're armed, some dirtbag jumps out of the bushes and you shoot him, he or his dirtbag family will claim you were some avenging vigilante just looking for an excuse to shoot their poor innocent son/husband/boyfriend, "who was just getting his life together."
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02-14-2020, 04:35 PM
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#39
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2015
Location: El Dorado
Posts: 187
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If my doorbell rings late at night my buddy Mr. Glock goes with me to answer it. I feel pretty good about my chances. Heck, we don't even lock our doors around here sometimes. Nobody is crazy enough to try a home invasion when they know every single homeowner is armed. That stuff just happens to sophisticated city folk who are unarmed in their own homes. It's a kind of Darwinism I think.
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02-14-2020, 05:05 PM
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#40
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Brooklyn NY
Posts: 90
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Was listening to a podcast yesterday and the service had someone actually watching your ring like device and tell the intruder to scram and call police.
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