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Ring doorbell not activating with Amazon Deliveries
This sounds weird but I get a lot of Amazon deliveries including grocery delivery. More than once they will bring items to my doorstep and the ring never turns on or records. After they leave I will go on the porch to get my groceries and immediately the ring activates. This is happened more than once so now I’m starting to think that possibly Amazon delivery drivers have some sort of jammer so they are not recorded by ring doorbell‘s. There’s a thread on Reddit with some people saying the same thing but I wanted to come to the Ring community and find out if anyone has had a similar situation. It has never happened with USPS or any other people coming to the door
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10-07-2020 04:12:25
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Have noticed Amazon deliveries not recorded. Had coffee sit out because ring didn’t pick up the delivery. Today, the ring doorbell missed a Fed ex delivery of fruit but me walking in my front yard was captured as were several cars going by. This is very annoying as one of the reasons for the ring doorbell was to know when deliveries arrive.
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12-09-2021 03:54:39
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- K
I just searched this topic and found this thread. I've been saying for weeks I think they can jam it or something. This is 2 days in a row it hasn't set it off, but I walk out and it records. The trees blow and it records....it gets the truck driving by, but no person coming to the door. The main reason we got this was to be notified if deliveries so we can get the packages quickly (my husband sleeps in the day and this way I can call and say hey go get the package) bc packages go missing often around here. It's definitely odd.
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14-09-2021 06:01:16
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- L
I had to look this information up because UPS was dropping off packages like the invisible man with a Wonder Woman truck. I had to go through my video and notice and really grainy brown truck picture. So, how are they the exception to the rule. Makes me question my safety with this company.
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16-09-2021 10:59:57
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The response by Chelsea the Ring rep is BS and we all know it! I have a setting in my Amazon app for delivery instructions which requires the driver to ring my doorbell upon delivery and 98% of them don’t follow the instructions so I am always giving out the thumbs down driver did not follow my delivery instructions feedback on my Amazon deliveries. Not that they do anything, they don’t give a crap. That ring is a waste of money and a total POS! I installed Blink cameras and they pick up far more than the ring video doorbell ever does. All my ring ever picks up is me going in and out of the house and it has nothing to do with settings because it’s not picking up any deliveries. Ever. And it used to when I first got it so don’t tell me that these delivery drivers don’t have some kind of jammer or other device to prevent the recordings. I want to happened to see a UPS driver heading towards my house and I stood by the door and noticed that my Wi-Fi was off on my cell phone and didn’t come back on until after he drove away. 🤨 The thing is, it’s not really helpful for UPS to not show up on my camera because I can say that I never got the item delivered to my doorstep and I have the video proof showing there was no driver at my location at the time of said delivery. They have to prove they delivered it to the right address. Blocking themselves from being recorded as delivering an item is actually reckless and stupid. Just sayin…
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18-09-2021 03:30:33
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Boozmd86
Amazon aquired Ring back in February of 2018. During recent years anything you own by Amazon is pretty sketchy when it comes to what they can and can't do regarding your devices or privacy. My indoor Eufy camera that is wireless that we use to watch our pet has no problem picking up the delivery van as well as tracking the delivery person the entire time. Ring has never auto detected an Amazon delivery, however I put it into live view and it acted weird as hell when I watched a delivery. As far as FedEx goes I am not sure but the Ring doorbell tracks UPS. It tells us motion is detected, ie: car driving by from a good 20 yards away. So those that keep saying it is a Ring setting are oblivios to the fact Amazon owns Ring. Get a different brand and leave Ring. Probably don't want a bunch of lawsuits from drivers hitting their cars on the side of the road or tossing packages.
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29-08-2021 11:47:46
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