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low070
Yes we need this Ring Team. I hope you guys read the comments. A license plate reader would work wonders in my condo complex where our doors face the street. For example I have a Ring peephole camera and my neighbors around me have Ring doorbells. There has been a rash of auto break-ins and stolen packages. The video footage is highly unusable because you can't make out the vehicles license plates. My Ring cameras are set to HDR. One is approximately 6 - 8 feet to the street. I also have a Ring outdoor camera overlooking the driveway which sits on a second story and points to the same street which is roughly about 25 - 30 feet away. I understand this is over the expected use/distance limit but you really need something that can get an absolute clear picture from distance with LPR technology.
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11-11-2020 01:49:17
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brianandfamily97080
People would be willing to pay more for a security camera that could better capture license plates at a typical distrance from house to street, even in dark lighting. AI might be able to assist with the capture, just like AI helps capture faces on iphones. It could be that the camera feeds a central AI processor (that in turn feeds back the plate number on the camera feed) if that saves the user money and makes it easier to achieve the license plate recognition effect.Once you sold such a security camera, a StreetCam if you will, then folks could Opt-In to share this street view with anyone who suffers a crime within xxx feet, with motion video available for the 15 minutes before and after the crime. If the criminal parks a vehicle away from the house they target, this would help provide information about the criminal.[https://www.intelli-vision.com/license-plate-recognition/](https://www.intelli-vision.com/license-plate-recognition/)[https://www.openalpr.com/](https://www.openalpr.com/)
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27-11-2020 18:50:56
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N8
Just in case anyone else wants to try this, I didn't have success. I 3D printed a housing that went on my RING camera that would let me attached a telephoto lens kit (like the ones you buy for your iPhone). It did indeed zoom in and gave me 10x zoom but it was like looking through a soda straw. 80% of the image is black with just a small circle in the center from the telephoto lens. The result was that non of the motion triggering occurred fast enough to capture anything in the small field of view that I had. I ended up throwing it all away. I agree this is an area that RING should offer some options for. Not all situations call for 120 deg field of view.
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25-01-2021 19:52:07
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celtzer
The police can do nothing with a video of someone breaking into your car, or stealing a package. It happens all the time and they do zero follow up unless you can get a license plate number associated with the crime. I'd be willing to pay more for it!
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16-08-2021 17:08:49
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Hi, we have a terrible package thief problem in our neighborhood. I caught them on video (it was a team - woman getting in & out of the car to grab the packages, man driving the car) but I couldn’t make out the license plate from the doorbell camera. Maybe you guys can make ***some kind of an inconspicuous front yard camera that can capture license plates?*** (fast food places have ‘em) This problem is only gonna get worse with people now shopping online more than ever. Please come out with something to help!

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07-01-2022 13:39:48

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Yipchingwrx

Gotta fully agree... Ring cameras are good for generally seeing if someone's on your property, but you barely get enough visual detail to do much good otherwise. License plates - can't make out what they say unless the camera is at knee level and aimed right at the vehicle. Faces - nothing that

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01-03-2023 20:29:17