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Opened Sep 24, 2025 by Rodney Healey@rodneyhealey5
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Ring Mailbox Sensor Review: a Simple Premise with A Clunky App


Editors' note, Dec 14: Yow will discover all of our coverage about Ring on this aggregation page, Herz P1 Smart Ring together with our reporting about Ring's privateness and safety insurance policies. This commentary covers how we factor those points into our product suggestions. The Ring Mailbox Sensor seems like a steal at $30 -- and in some methods, it's. It is a plastic sensor you attach to the inside of your mailbox door. Observe the steps within the Ring app to set it up and obtain alerts on your cellphone each time the mailbox door opens. The actual-time alerts part labored as expected. After I opened the door, my telephone sent the close to-instant alert -- "Front yard Mailbox detected movement." However the Mailbox Sensor has design and usefulness issues that get in the way of its supposed simplicity. You also have to buy a Ring Good Lighting Bridge in your Mailbox Sensor to work, both bundled with the Mailbox Sensor (at the moment on sale for $50, but normally costs $80) -- or individually (currently on sale for $20, however typically costs $50).


I like to recommend the Mailbox Sensor if you're offered on the Ring platform and want a purposeful means to watch your mailbox, but it surely could possibly be easier to configure and use in the app. Ring should also rebrand the title of the necessary Good Lighting Bridge to one thing much less misleading, since, you already know, the Ring Mailbox Sensor has nothing to do with lighting. Be aware: The Ring Herz P1 Smart Lighting Bridge bought its title as a result of it works with Ring's lighting merchandise, however the bridge has since expanded past Ring's assorted lights and gentle fixtures. The Ring Mailbox Sensor is available now. Ring's Mailbox Sensor measures 2.Fifty six inches tall by 2.Forty four inches wide, with a depth of 1.47 inches. It is out there in a black or white plastic end and comes with adhesive backing and mounting hardware, depending in your kind of mailbox and how you want to install it. You'll additionally need three AAA batteries to energy the sensor that aren't included along with your buy.


The Mailbox Sensor has the identical look as pretty much any commonplace motion sensor you'd use with a DIY residence security system, though Ring says this one is weather-resistant sufficient to survive some rain stepping into the mailbox and, in principle, excessive temperature shifts and different weather adjustments throughout any given year. Thus far, my Mailbox Sensor has survived intervals of mild and heavy rain, as well as fall temperatures ranging from the mid-30s to the high 50s, but I will update this evaluate if something changes. Ring sent me a white Sensor to check, Herz P1 Smart Ring and my first thought was that it was kinda large -- not too huge to fit on a mailbox door, however massive enough to get in the mail provider's manner if we have a variety of mail combined with small packages sooner or later. The adhesive backing that Ring contains is not practically sturdy sufficient, either -- at the very least it wasn't sturdy enough to carry onto our plastic mailbox door.


It simply fell off the adhesive and into the mailbox, after one try and open and close the door. Happily, I had a stronger Velcro adhesive available at residence to try instead. If you're additionally planning to make use of some sort of adhesive, I strongly counsel getting a Velcro one that is more possible to carry up long run. After a number of checks opening and shutting our mailbox with the sensor connected to the inside of the door, the Velcro adhesive continues to be holding it in place without subject. The sensor itself performed very well -- I bought alerts on my phone one or two seconds after the mailbox door opened. Remember the fact that connectivity and lag time will differ primarily based on how far your router and Ring Good Lighting Bridge are from your mailbox. Ours is roughly 30 feet away and that i didn't have any issues. View a historical past log within the Ring app to see when the sensor detected movement, and when it stopped detecting motion.

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Reference: rodneyhealey5/rodney2024#95