Using a Wedge Kit to properly position your Ring Video Doorbell 3

If you're installing a Ring Video Doorbell 3 on a house with aluminium siding or in a house where the door is atop a set of stairs you can use a Wedge Kit to properly position a Ring Video Doorbell 3 to catch visitor motion but minimise "false positive" motion alerts such as cars in the street.

Both of these situations require the use of a Wedge Kit to properly angle your Ring Video Doorbell 3 to catch the motions your want while avoiding the motions you don't. This article will briefly explain how your Ring Video Doorbell 3 sees the world and how to use your Wedge Kit.

Looking downward

Your Ring Video Doorbell 3 "sees" the world in two ways. First through a camera that has a very wide view of the world as illustrated below:

Second, through a network of "PIR" or passive infrared sensors that the Ring Video Doorbell uses for motion detection. In the illustration below you can see that the motion sensors have a much more focused field-of-view than the camera and that this view is pointed downward to catch motion (as much as possible) within 1.5 to 5 metres of the Ring Video Doorbell and exclude motion sources outside that range.

Dealing with siding

If your house has siding, you'll need to take the angle of the siding into account when mounting your Ring Video Doorbell 3. As illustrated below, mounting the Ring Video Doorbell 3 on siding will point the Ring Video Doorbell up, making it much more likely to catch passing traffic than the heat of visitors.

If you mount your Ring Video Doorbell 3 on siding, a Wedge Kit will properly angle your Ring Video Doorbell.

Dealing with stairs

If your door is above ground level with stairs leading up to it, this can cause your Ring Video Doorbell to miss visitors walking up your stairs and cause you to get motion alerts from passing traffic.