Ring's Always Home Cam won't be flying in your home until at least 2024, if then

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https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/6/23541395/amazon-ring-always-home-cam-release-date-price-ces2023

Ring’s Always Home Cam won’t be flying in your home until at least 2024, if then / We saw the first public demo of Amazon’s flying indoor security camera, but the company says the $250 autonomous indoor drone is still not ready for the real world.

By JENNIFER PATTISON TUOHY / @jp2e

Jan 6, 2023, 10:26 AM EST

The Always Home Cam, Ring’s autonomous indoor security drone, made its public debut at CES this week. But it was flying in an empty room behind a glass door and disappearing into a side room between flights, so we never saw it take off or land. The demo, while impressive, shows that it’s unlikely we’ll see Ring’s indoor security camera patrolling your living room anytime soon.

Despite announcing preorders (by invitation only) for the security camera in 2021 and saying it would ship to customers’ homes that year, Ring still hasn’t committed to a new date. “We are looking forward to — in the next short future — shipping it out to customers at high volume,” founder Jamie Siminoff told The Verge in an interview. But he also said 2024 was the earliest we could expect to see it widely available.

The cost, combined with the complexities of dealing with adapting to every potential scenario in a home, is proving to be a big challenge. “It is literally an autonomous flying vehicle in your home,” he says. “There’s a lot of the ‘devil is in the details’ here.”

Making it at a price point that is consumer friendly is also hard. Siminoff says it will cost $249.99, but “if it was a $2,000 product, we could put the sensors on it today, and it would be fine.” Additionally, making it work reliably in homes with lots of windows and mirrors (you know, most of them) has been tricky.

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[intrepidity]

1. Cats are gonna *love* that!* nt

[Irish_Dem]

2. My little dog barks when an outside leaf blows around by the back door.

An inside drone would push her over the edge.

[bamagal62]

3. My cat would go nuts.

My dog would be terrified.

[GoodRaisin]

4. My dog would not have liked it at all.

Whatever room it came in he would get up and leave.

[Chakaconcarne]

5. Before long, people will have these roaming outside their homes for security.

and the sound of drones will replace the chirping of birds.

Cheerful thought for the day...

[haele]

6. What can ever go wrong? Wasn't there something about Roomba cams in the news latel

Beware of Ring drone cameras with accounts on Only Fans...

And yes, pets like large birds, cats, and dogs will either be scared out of their minds or try to take the drone out at the first opportunity.

Haele