What is Ring Home, how is it different from Ring Protect, and how much do subscriptions cost?

Ring announced a rebrand for its Ring Protect subscriptions in early October 2024, with the name change and new features taking effect in November.

Ring Protect has now changed to Ring Home, with new subscription plans, some additional tricks, and previous Protect subscription plans that transfer automatically.

If you’re confused and wondering what Ring Home is, how it’s different from Ring Protect, how much subscriptions cost, and most of all, what you get for that money, we’ve got you covered. Below, you’ll learn everything there is to know about Ring Home and what it means for you and your old Ring Protect subscriptions.

What is Ring Home?

Ring Home is Ring’s new subscription plan for its video doorbells, security cameras, and alarm system, effective November 5, 2024. It replaced Ring Protect and is similar to Nest Aware, which is Ring’s service. subscription for Nest Cams and Philips Hue Secure, which is the subscription service for Hue’s Secure security range. Arlo also has a subscription service called Arlo Secure, so it’s standard practice across all user-installed security systems.

Like many of its competitors, the Ring Home subscription has several different plans available. Which one you should select will depend on what devices you own, how many devices you have, and what features are important to you.

How much are Ring Home subscriptions?

There are three subscriptions to Ring Home, including Ring Home Basic, Ring Home Standard, and Ring Home Premium. All were presented on November 5, 2024.

• Basic Home Ring costs £4.99/$4.99 per month either £49.99/$49.99 per year.
• Standard Home Ring costs £7.99/$9.99 per month either £79.99/$99.99 per year.
• Premium Home Ring costs £15.99/$19.99 a month or £159.99/$199.99 one year.

What happens to my Ring Protect with Ring Home subscription?

If you were already a Ring Protect subscriber before the Ring Home changes were implemented, your plan will have been improved and more features will have been added, but your plan name will have changed. Ring Home Basic replaces the Ring Protect Basic plan. The price remains the same.

The Ring Home Standard plan replaces the Ring Protect Plus plan and, again, the price remains the same. The Ring Home Premium plan is a completely new plan, so you will need to upgrade from the Ring Home Standard plan or the Ring Home Basic plan to access that plan and its features.

For those in the US, there was also the Ring Protect Pro plan, which will have changed to Ring Home Standard with Alarm Professional Monitoring by default starting November 5, 2024.

However, you won’t get 24/7 Internet Backup, eero Secure, and Ring Edge (local video storage) on this plan. You also won’t receive SOS Emergency Response if you don’t have a Ring Alarm or Ring Alarm Pro device.

However, you will be eligible for a one-year trial of the Ring Home Premium plan that has all those features and if you want to keep them at the end of the trial, you can switch your Ring Home subscription to the Ring Home Premium plan. , with the Alarm Professional Monitoring plugin, which costs $10 a month.

What do you get with a Ring Home subscription?

Let’s get to the good stuff, shall we? Below, we’ve listed what you get with each Ring Home subscription plan, as well as what new features were announced with the rebrand and which plan you need to sign up for to get the new features.

Basic Home Ring

Starting with Ring Home Basic, which is the cheapest of the subscription plans and as we mentioned, replaces the Ring Protect Basic plan. It covers one Ring device, offers up to 180 days of video event history, and offers person and package alerts, which we explain how to set up in a separate feature.

You also get Live View so you can access your Ring video doorbell or camera whenever you want and watch for 10 minutes.

The new feature you get with Ring Home Basic over Ring Protect Basic is video preview alerts, which are an extension of rich notifications. When a notification arrives, the pop-up window will show a video so you can see what happened and take necessary action.

Standard Home Ring

As you’d expect, everything you get with Ring Home Basic you get with Ring Home Standard, but it covers all of your Ring cameras instead of just one like Ring Protect Plus did. You also get extended warranties, cellular alarm backup, Ring modes so you can arm and disarm your Ring devices remotely, and a daily event summary that provides a scrolling overview of motion events that occurred that day.

You also get access to Multi-Cam Live View with this subscription plan, allowing you to view up to four camera feeds on ring.com at once, as well as Picture-in-Picture which allows you to continue viewing Live View on your phone . even if you open another app.

Ring Home Standard’s new features compared to Ring Protect Plus come in the form of Ring Calls that let you receive what looks like a video call on your phone when someone presses the doorbell, while Extended Live View lets you watch your Ring cameras during 30 minutes. minutes instead of the 10 minutes included with Ring Home Basic.

Premium Home Ring

For Ring Home Premium, you get the same features as Ring Home Standard and that applies to all your Ring devices too. However, you also get Continuous Live View, allowing you to watch Live View for more than 30 minutes. However, the big extra here is 24/7 recording if you have a compatible device, allowing you to see what happened in your home, even outside your motion zones.

Do Ring video doorbells and cameras require a home subscription?

As with Nest Cams, Philips Hue Secure cameras, and Arlo cameras, Ring security cameras and doorbells don’t require a subscription to work.

You can place a Ring Video Doorbell in the front of your house and it will record footage, offer alerts through the Ring app, and be able to talk to any visitors who show up at your door via the two-way talk feature. The same applies to the company’s indoor and outdoor cameras.

However, the functionality of the devices is reduced. You won’t receive alerts from people or packages on the Ring Video Doorbell, for example, its notifications won’t offer a video preview without a subscription, you won’t receive doorbell calls, and, perhaps most importantly, you won’t be able to store, download, or share images.