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Flying security cameras land on The Tech Chap

Tom's Ring-sponsored hands-on pairs an indoor drone with a rolling camera designed for business patrols.

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Ring Drone Cam & Rover Cam - HANDS-ON!

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0:59The Drone Cam combines autonomous docking, mapped routes, scheduled flights and a square 2K camera.
2:21Tom says the camera records only during flight and switches off when docked.
2:52Jamie explains that cloud-based processing helped reduce the drone's size and weight.
3:40The business-focused Rover Cam demonstrates automated patrols, two-way audio, a periscope camera and night vision.
4:41US pricing and launch plans appear, followed by discussion of possible UK, European and Australian releases.

A security camera that leaves its dock and flies around the house gives Tom something rather different to test from another laptop screen. In "Ring Drone Cam & Rover Cam - HANDS-ON!", The Tech Chap visits a Ring event in New York to try the company's mobile security devices. The video is an ad for Ring, and his only new upload of the week.

The indoor Drone Cam maps routes, schedules flights and returns to its docking station. Tom says its camera switches off when docked and records only while flying. Ring's Jamie explains that moving processing into the cloud helped make the aircraft smaller and lighter, a design choice that also gets to the heart of the comment section's privacy questions.

Viewers are thinking about practical obstacles, too: closed internal doors, noise and pets that might regard a flying camera as a new toy. Others imagine using it to check a stove or window after leaving home. The ground-based Rover Cam is aimed at commercial spaces, with automated patrols, two-way audio and a periscope camera. Tom connects that one to his own ongoing studio build.

The upload has reached about 85,000 views and is currently the channel's busiest individual video, though the previous week's iPad mini OLED and MacBook Pro OLED reviews are drawing almost as many daily views apiece. Those display-focused reviews keep the familiar buying-decision side of the channel close at hand.

Across the channel, weekly views totalled roughly 1.3 million. Subscribers were unchanged, while daily viewing is below its usual level. Nearby in size, TronicsFix is having a livelier-than-usual viewing day, and Hipyo Tech had a substantially larger weekly audience. For Tom, the week's new material was concentrated in that single outing, with a brief studio visit giving the robotics demonstration a personal point of reference.

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Great if you don’t have any doors in your house..
@dbefore7165See it on YouTube
The last thing my doggos need is a $250 airborne chew toy.
@GenuinglyMadeInOhioSee it on YouTube
Nice that you covered both the Drone Cam and the Rover Cam in one hands-on, since they solve pretty different problems. To answer the pinned question: I'd want one for checking the stove or a window after leaving the house, as long as battery life lets it do a full lap.
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Seems like a neat idea in theory but realistically it means remembering to leave all internal doors open at night or when you're not at home, which isn't always practical.. especially if you have pets. Would much prefer the room alarm motion sensors to include a camera
@1494thomasSee it on YouTube
I wish Ring would come out with a simple hub that will talk to my Apple HomeKit system.
@DaveM-e3sSee it on YouTube
It would be great to have one for patrolling the outside of your house (either drone or rover). It sounds interesting for when you're away but i'm home practically all the time and have cameras everywhere I need them. What I'm missing is something like this that can take a closer look when necessary (outside).
@NickAndTechSee it on YouTube

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