Millions of Ring doorbell owners urged to check genius ‘fence setting’

YOUR Ring doorbell has a seriously handy feature that makes your life much more peaceful.

It’s linked to Motion Detection, and preventing it from being “over-active”.

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Amazon has built a special feature called a Geofence for Ring doorbells.

“A Geofence is a virtual perimeter or invisible boundary around a particular geographic location,” Amazon explains.

“When you configure a Geofence in the Ring app, the Ring app can remind you to set your Mode to ‘Away’ when you exit the Geofence.

“When you come home and re-enter the Geofence, your Ring app can automatically snooze alerts from your security cameras and doorbells.”

The idea is that when you’re at home, you might not need motion detection alerts.

This won’t stop the doorbell from ringing if someone presses it.

But it will stop it going off constantly while you’re at home.

And then you can have the alerts reactivated for when you’re out of the house.

It uses the location of your iPhone or Android, and maps it to a Geofence you’ve created in the Ring app.

Of course there are drawbacks to having Geofence switched on.

You won’t get alerts if someone is on your property while you’re sleeping.

So it’s worth turning alerts back on overnight if that’s a concern.

How to enable Ring Geofence

Go into your Ring app, and then head into the menu by tapping the three lines in the corner.

Now tap on Settings, and then go to Geofence.

You can then adjust the position of the Geofence to suit your needs.

Now tap Confirm, and set up Auto-Snooze.

“Auto-Snooze is a feature intended to help you prevent alerts triggered by motion right after you enter your geofence,” Amazon explains.

“For instance – you may not want your phone to buzz with a Ring motion alert when you walk up to your own Ring Video Doorbell.”

Then you can choose which devices you want to snooze notifications for.

You can also set a Snooze duration.

“Compatible Ring devices that are snoozed when you re-enter your Geofenced area will not send alerts to that particular mobile device while snoozed,” Amazon said.

“They will, however, still record if you have a Ring Protect plan, and other (non-snoozed) compatible Ring devices will still send alerts.”

Now tap Continue, and then check the Arm/Disarm Reminders.

These will alert you to change your Mode when you enter or exit the Geofence.

You can also set a specific tone to play when one of these reminders is sent.

Now tap Continue, then Finish & Save.

You’ll then need to give the Ring app permission to access your phone’s location when the app isn’t in active use.

You can turn off the Geofence at any time.

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