Live view not working on stick up cams 3rd gen though works for doorbell

Yep, my phone is updated too. Whatever is wrong has to be a problem with the camera. I’ve tried everything and tech support just tells me to try things I’ve already done a dozen times. As I said, I’ve been elevated to some advanced tech support in the past which can fix the problem instantly for a couple of days. Makes me think Ring must know something is wrong. In the meantime I wouldn’t recommend this system to anyone as it’s been very frustrating.

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Dear Community Manager,

Could you please read what we are typing and stop giving such disappointing clues which seem to make your neighbours the problem again?

I spent dozens of minutes with your helpdesk on the phone and they let me reset EVERYTHING in my house and nothing worked. WHILE my RING DOORBELL works fine, and my GOOGLE NEST protects work fine and all other devices also. I have a job in the ICT, i know what i am doing.

Everything with the stickup cam works fine. But if you open the app, press live view, it wont load. It just wont connect. Not even from within the wifi network, but also not with 4G. YOU GUYS SEND ME a NEW ONE! So all your technical engineers could not solve the problem and assured me it would be the hardware. The new one had Exactly the same problem. And the weird thing is… really sometimes… the live view works fine…

So it is not impossible to work, but just usually does not. Please give us no clues on settings or our network or anything, then just let this thread blead…

Greetings from the Netherlands.

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It’s not your camera. Its a firmware issue. I have had the EXACT same problem with my RING Stick Up Cam. I went as far as to return and exchange it for another. Same result.

RING needs to get there act together and FIX this once and for all.

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My firmware is up to date. I don’t have any issues with my stickup cam. I go straight to live view on my wifi or mobile within 6 seconds. Shouldn’t be firmware unless different countries have different versions. I’m in the US.

I am in The Netherlands.

And there really is a problem.

The weird thing is - and why it is incredibly hard to solve for Ring - that it is not consistent.

This weekend i was away from home and live view dit not work, not over Wifi and not over 4G. Yesterday i was at home and while logged in onto the same WIFI network i did not get the live view to work either when i tried once again. I changed nothing and right now i am at work and over 4G the live view connects like there is no issue at all.

I work in IT and know the hardest problems are those which are not consistent. Where to start how to figure out what is wrong. I have no clue, but meanwhile we have a defective live view…

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I am just so glad I am not the only one seeing this same thing. RING needs to get this fixed.

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Agreed to all of the above, this is a serious flaw. We are having the same problem as above. Not happy.

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Same exact problem here. 2 stickup cams, brand new, quit working. Ring doorbell works just fine. Its not my freaking WIFI, its not my internet, its the cameras. BOTH Stick up cams stopped working at the exact same time. Everything else I have works like it should. Get off the script ring!!! If its a firmware bug then tell us and make it so we can roll back. Enough already!

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Mine has been messed up for a month now. I called support once. The agent was kind and helpful but what the hell is wrong here. It keeps happening and I did not buy this thing to have to be constantly working on it to have it work properly.

Starting to feel like it was a mistake to trust this brand.

I don’t really want to have to return it and switch brands. I sure hope Ring sorts this out because I am getting sick of messing with this stuff.

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A packet carpture using wireshark is a good place to start. If your problem is similar to mine, the cameras are still online and connected to the network. Its the software that is causing the problem. The more evidence we can put in front of Ring to make this undeniable the better.

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Live view on Ring doorbell and battery cam worked perfect for 2 months. On the battery operated cam live view stopped working although camera is recording. Greetz from the Netherlands

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Same problem here.
I also have 2 new stickup cams, and also 3 wireless spotlight cam and a doorbell. While the doorbell and the spotlight cams are working fine, I can’t connect to the stickup cams. This if very frustrating because I’m from home this month, so not easy to do some resets. I’m also in IT so please don’t come back with all the standard answers because that’s already covered. What I do notice is that sometimes, though I don’t get a connection through to my phone, it does record 30 seconds which I’m able to watch back. Also, when I left, it did work. Please fix this firmware because this is not what I paid for!

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I get an email now to be sure to work with updated software.

Im not able to update the software on the stick up cam and keep stuck on firmware cam-1.4.15200
I already did a full re install, removed battery. And used reset button.
Wifi reception is ok.

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I still have this issue where live view does not work on the stick up cams, why is it showing as resolved?

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Because it is not a consistent easy solvable issue which not all users have they blame it on the neighbours themselves. Putting it on solved makes it go away they hope.

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I’m the original poster of this issue. There has been a development… all of a sudden after I got the update with “modes” and the two stickup cams started working in live mode immediately. That would be great, but here’s the real kick in the teeth. Now the ring doorbell (which has always worked fine) started having the problem the stickup cams were having. It works if triggered by motion but not in live view. Once again, I’ve tried everything and gone far beyond the low effort posts that have been offered by ring in this post.

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I have the same problem with my stickup cam. I have a Samsung S10e and there is an issue between the Bluetooth and the live function in the Ring app. If I turn off my bluetooth, the live view works immediately. Give it a try and see if it works for you.

I am having the same problem. I have two new Stick Up Cam Battery devices operating on a high-speed wifi network and “Live” never works in a timely way. When I try to view “Live” all I get is a spinning image and a message saying “Activating Device.” The best that I ever get is a connection within 5-10 seconds but far more often than not, I get no message or a message saying “LIVE VIDEO ENDED, RECONNECT” when it hasn’t connected or it just keeps spinning. To Ring Management: what would happen if a criminal broke into my house one night and I couldn’t even get these cameras to work? If I am doing something wrong then please advise and don’t ignore these comments.

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anyone figure out a solution for this, my parents getting the same error all of the sudden and they are in another country so trying to fix it for them is hard.

I have had them reset it and make sure its updated, check the wifi speed and signal, still no avail.

My Motion Detector is working, i can see images from a few secs ago but no Live view when i click it, its stuck on “Activating Device” and then Live view ended. Even my historal view is black

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