Ring offers 24/7 recording for its wired cameras

Ring is renaming its three-tier Ring Protect subscription service and adding five new features, including 24/7 video monitoring. He is also trying to sneak in an actual price increase.

The most important of the renamed Ring Home’s new features is 24/7 video recording, which Ring says is one of its “most requested features” by customers.

But for Ring’s most valuable customers, the company’s claim of “new features, new name, same price” is patently false.

Follow the money

For starters, not every new feature is available at every service level, and 24/7 recording is only available on certain home security cameras.

Meanwhile, the most important service of any home security system – professional monitoring – will now be offered on an a la carte basis, meaning it will cost $10 per month apart from regardless of which other subscription service you sign up for.

If you pay for Ring’s highest level of service with professional monitoring today, you’ll be upgraded to middle tier priced at $9.99 per month starting in November and then charged $10 per month for professional monitoring. So your costs won’t increase, but you won’t get the new 24/7 recording feature either.

Ring Alarm Pro users paying for professional monitoring will be at a disadvantage. They will also be upgraded from the top-tier service plan to the mid-tier service plan, which does not include 24/7 cellular alarm backup and broadband service, Digital Security by eero Secure (only applies to Ring Alarm Pro which has an integrated Eero router), or Ring Edge (recording capability video to a user-supplied microSD card connected to Ring Alarm Pro).

These customers will also have to pay $10 per month for professional monitoring, bringing their total cost to $19.99 per month, but will only receive one-year free trials Other feature set. This means they will have to revert to the top tier of $19.99 per month plus $10 per month for professional monitoring – $29.99 per month total – starting in November 2025 if they want the same basket of services as today (they’ll get 24/7 recording, of course).

So if you think 24/7 video recording is worth the extra $10 a month, Ring’s new pricing structure is a big contributor to the price hike.

Ring Protect is now Ring Home

As I mentioned at the top, Ring is renaming its postpaid plan, formerly Ring Protect, to Ring Home. I’ll explain the names first and then discuss the new features that come with them.

It’s now called Ring Protect Basic Basic home ring. One camera or doorbell still costs $4.99 per month, but now includes a new video preview feature.

Now it’s called Ring Protect Plus Ring standard. It still costs $9.99 per month and covers as many doorbells and cameras as you have. It also gains a new video preview feature, as well as new extended live preview and ringing calling features.

Ring Protect Pro now has a name Home Premium Ring and has the same feature set as Ring Home Standard, in addition to new 24/7 video recording and features important to Ring Alarm and Ring Alarm Pro users: backup alarm and internet service over a cellular connection for the Ring Alarm system. It also includes eero Secure’s Ring Edge and Digital Security and will still cost $19.99 per month, but no longer includes professional monitoring.

On the other hand, Ring Alarm Pro owners who have taken advantage of this system’s ability to support microSD cards to store and process camera footage locally will need to disable this feature and revert to cloud storage if they want to record 24/7 week with the Ring Home Premium Subwoofer, because 24/7 recording cannot take place anywhere other than in the Ring cloud.

If you’re a Ring Alarm or Ring Alarm Pro user with professional monitoring, in November 2025 Ring will offer you Hobson’s Choice: You can pay $30 a month for the same services you have today, or you can cancel one or more of the services you most depend on you rely on for home security.

With that out of the way, let’s discuss in more detail what Ring adds to its subscription services.

Video recording 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Raise your hand if this has happened to you: An intruder managed to bypass the motion sensor on your Ring security camera, so there’s no video evidence of what the bad guy was doing on your property. This is a common problem with home security cameras in general, but Ring will soon offer a solution: 24/7 cloud recording.

The recording option is not dependent on camera motion zones, but will only be available on wired-powered Ring security cameras – i.e. those connected to AC adapters – and you’ll have to pay for the highest tier of Ring subscription service to get the service. Battery-powered models will not work, even those that have two batteries or are connected to solar panels that constantly refill the batteries.

At launch, the list of compatible cameras includes Stick Up Cam Pro, Ring Indoor Cam Gen 2, and Ring Indoor Cam Pan-Tilt. Ring says more wired models will gain this feature over time, including wired doorbells.

Two new live view features

Ring also announced that subscribers will have longer live viewing sessions via cameras. Where Ring Live View currently limits the ability to stream live camera feeds for 10 minutes, Extended Live View increases that limit to 30 minutes, but you must subscribe to at least the Ring Home Basic tier to use the feature.

Meanwhile, a Ring Home Premium subscription unlocks continuous live view on wired cameras that support 24/7 recording.

The doorbell

On Ring video doorbells – both wired and battery-powered – a new feature called Doorbell Calls will make your smartphone ring when someone rings the doorbell, just like when you receive a video call.

Unlike the current method of receiving push notifications, you will be able to answer the call and talk directly to the guest using the Live View feature in the Ring app.

This new feature requires a subscription to Ring Home Standard or Home Premium.

Video preview alerts

In 2020, Ring launched its Rich Notifications feature to give subscribers a better idea of ​​the types of traffic that triggered an alert. This feature is converted into video preview alerts that deliver a short video clip along with a push notification. From there, you’ll be able to initiate a two-way conversation to chat with a guest or initiate a live viewing session.

This service is available on all three subscription tiers, but you must sign up for one of them.

Launch date

Ring says all five new features will begin rolling out in October and will be available globally on November 5.

Want more information about the Ring products discussed here? Check out our in-depth reviews of the Stick Up Cam Pro, Ring Indoor Cam (2nd Gen), Ring Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam, Ring Alarm, and Ring Alarm Pro.