RingChime Pro

This product has solved the issue and setup was about three minutes! I have an outdoor Spotlight Cam above the garage that would drop offline occasionally even after working well for days at a time. This extender creates its own network for the problematic device (or devices) and attempts to improve the RSSI for that device.The funny thing is that I tried to follow other reviewers by placing the chime in the garage to only boost the spotlight camera. After installation, the RSSI on the spotlight cam was 47, which was excellent. However, the RSSI on the chime was only 77, which was horrible. I feared that the connection would be unstable despite the great signal strength on the spotlight cam, so I moved the Chime back into the house to improve the Chime’s signal strength, and now I get an RSSI of 51 on the Chime and 55 on the spotlight cam which is a happy medium (see attached photo).The software for the Ring products is superb. The software features a “Chime setup test” that evaluates your position choices and makes recommendations accordingly. Also, when you review the “device health” for the Chime, it shows the signal strength for not only the Chime, but for the devices connected to its own network. A nice touch! (See attached screenshot.)Finally, I have an ASUS mesh system that my Ring devices do very well on. I probably could have used a plug-in ASUS extender to do the same thing the Chime did, but I wanted the compatibility of the Ring system since my Ring Spotlight Cam was the problem, and the Chime product was $25-30 dollars cheaper than the ASUS plug-in mesh extender that I considered.My intent for this review was to provide some insight that I was looking for pre-purchase in the hopes it would help someone with a similar problem.

I’ve been using the Ring Chime Pro for a while now, and it’s been awesome. The chime is loud enough to hear from pretty much anywhere in the house, which is super helpful. I like that it also boosts the Wi-Fi signal for my Ring devices — that made a big difference with my doorbell’s connection. Setup was pretty easy, and it hasn’t given me any problems so far. If you want to hear your doorbell clearly inside and improve your Ring’s Wi-Fi, this is a solid pick.

I first bought a Ring doorbell cam 4 and hard wire installed it. RSSI signal strength was around -65 which was ok but not good. Because RSSI is a negative number, the lower number the better. For example, the best RSSI is -59 to -1. I then bought the Ring Chime Pro and installed it in a wall outlet between the router and the doorbell. The app said, no good, find a different location. I tried three more locations, including a wall outlet inside the house located only about 8 feet from the outside doorbell. Signal strength still not good. Finally, I used an extension cord and located the Ring Chime pro on top of a dresser that is literally one foot from the doorbell, with only the house's outer wall between the doorbell cam and the Ring Chime Pro. At first, still no good! I felt defeated. But wait, there is more! I checked on it a couple of hours later and all of a sudden, the RSSI was great, it was -44.My conclusion is that do not be thrown off by an initial bad reading. Apparently it takes awhile either to establish the good connection and/or the Ring cam device only updates the signal strength report every so often. So now I conclude that it is possible that some of the other locations I tried may also work. To adequately test each location, I believe you need to install it and let it sit there for awhile. In the Ring app, go to the Ring doorbell cam settings, click on "Device Health" to see the current RSSI value, but also scroll down and to see the date and time of the last "Device Health Check." If that time is a couple of hours ago, do something to the doorbell cam to trigger it, like ring the doorbell, and then check device health again. I did this and the RSSI value changed for the better.It has now been over a week, and I am consistently getting an RSSI from the router to the Ring Chime Pro, and from the Ring Chime Pro to the Ring cam, of about RSSI-45, which is great.Other things: As other reviewers have noted, you truly can easily turn off the nightlight, the chime alerts, and even the little blue status light. In other words, you can easily make the Ring Chime Pro a completely dark and silent device whose only purpose is the signal strength boost. This is all I wanted because my doorbell cam is hard wired to my mechanical doorbell chimes and I don't need any part of it except the signal boost.Thus I give five starts to the Ring Chime Pro. I have not yet reviewed the Ring doorbell cam itself, but my comment on that is that if you have a brick house, like mine, and your doorbell is in a corner far away from your router, you will probably need to also pay $49 for the Ring Chime Pro, unless you already have a system of mesh wifi boosters.Also, the Ring Chime Pro is super easy to install. Assuming you have already installed the Ring app on your phone, you just plug the Ring Chime Pro into a wall outlet. Then you do have to wait a few minutes while the app sends a firmware update to the device. After that, the app will start giving you prompts that the location is no good. But if you feel the location is pretty good, I would wait, as described above, and see if the signal strength improves over time.

Works great for signal booster! My RSSI has significantly gone up since I got this little guy therefore my picture clarity as well! I had my WiFi mesh extender as close as possible to the ring doorbell before but i was getting health alerts as it was too close to my router. And even then it was hovering around -65 ish which isn’t great. Problem solved once I plugged in this guy and moved my mesh extender to a better part of the house. RSSI is now in the low -40s. Also kind of enjoy the built in light that notifies you of a doorbell press if you decide to not use any chime sounds. Only reason not five stars is you can’t even see the chime pro in the ring app if you are a shared user, have to be main account holder, but still not the end of the world. Definitely worth it.