No, turning off wifi will not disable the ring camera. The world depends heavily on the Internet for virtually everything, including business, security, surveillance, and even day-to-day activities.
Ring camera is a surveillance camera relying on the internet to provide consistent surveillance of your environment in real-time and gives you access to the footage from any remote location 24/7.
Its ability to give you footage in real time remotely is due to wifi connectivity. So, does this mean that the ring camera will fail to work once wifi connectivity is not available? No, it can still work even in the absence of wifi connectivity.
However, some of its functions may be disabled as a result of this.
Many of the devices from Ring are heavily reliant on wifi coactivity, like the Z-Wave and LoRA features. Some other functionalities work based on rival wireless connections; examples are the Smart Lighting and Ring Alarm feature.
What happens when there is no wifi?
If your ring camera is disconnected from the internet or wifi connection, it can still record footage but the recording will be saved on an SD card. You can bring out the SD card to check the recording at any time.
This is possible since the ring cameras always come with an SD card slot and some of them can accept SD cards with a capacity reaching 250 GB.
Such a memory card can record footage for days without getting full. The only thing that will be lacking in the abbesses of wifi connection is the ability to relay the footage to you in your remote location far from where the camera is installed.
The performance of the ring camera in the absence of the internet depends a lot on the particular type of ring camera you are using.
The Ring Stick-Up Cam Elite and Ring Doorbell Elite, for example, do not depend on wifi connectivity to work as surveillance cameras.
They are designed to work with Ethernet cords using the Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology. You can, therefore, use the Ethernet cable to connect these devices to a power source and the internet.
If wifi connectivity is absent, you can get them connected to the internet via other means using the Ethernet cable. The connection is also more stable in the devices since they replace wireless connectivity with a wired connection.
You will need an internet connection to set up the camera and doorbell. They also need the internet to function and communicate unhindered with the Ring app and upload the security videos they record to the cloud.
Even if the internet is not coming from a wifi connection, it can come from another source.
Studies show that Ring cameras and ring doorbells are unable to record footage or even detect motion if there is no Wi-Fi connectivity.
So, you will have no use for the ring cameras if you are located in a place where there is no adequate wifi connectivity. Instead of waiting for wifi to be restored, you can simply use an internet connection from some other source.
Without connecting the camera to the internet one way or the other, nothing will ever work in the Ring Camera, be it the footage recording, motion detection, Ring Plug-in Chime, or alerts delivered to the phone.
Virtually all smart home devices are in this category and must be connected to the internet before they can work.
What happens to Ring when Wi-Fi goes out?
If the wifi connection goes out and the Ring camera is unable to connect to the internet, the camera will not be able to function at all. Virtually all the features will go on a break and will remain so until the wifi connection is restored. However, you can get things working again by switching your internet source from wifi to mobile data.
If you have internet data plan on your mobile device, all you have to do is to link the internet service to the ring camera and it will start working.
Ring cameras need the internet to work but it does not have to be from wifi connectivity. It can also work with internet connectivity from any other source whatsoever.
Ring camera does not come with an SD card slot and this means that it can only record footage via the internet.
While the camera from this company lacks SD card slots, the Ring Alarm Pro hub features this functionality.
Will my Ring camera work without Wi-Fi?
Yes, the ring camera will work without wifi. As mentioned earlier, ring cameras are made to rely heavily on the internet and they will become useless once you cut off the internet from them.
Note, however, that the internet can come from any source, including wifi and cellular network. Even if wifi connection is not available for any reason, just hook up the ring camera to the cellular data and it will start working again.
Ring camera consumes a lot of internet data and you should; put this in mind when connecting the device to your cellular data.
Can someone disable my Ring camera?
No. only you can disable or deactivate your ring camera. Once you deactivate the device, you will not be able to change or control any of its settings.
After deactivating the ring camera will also stop the device from recording videos. To deactivate the camera, ogle off the Motion Detection control from your Ring app.
What disables a Ring camera?
A ring camera can be disabled if t is not powered on. A serious fault in the device can also get it disabled.
If the fault is not physical, you can put things right by restarting the device and then repeating the setup process.
Make sure the password you provide is also correct. You should not open or tamper with the internal components I you are not authorized to do so.
How do I turn off my Ring camera without anyone knowing?
The steps below can guide you:
- Launch the Ring app
- Check the top left corner of the app for the three lines and tap on them.
- In the menu that comes up look for Devices and tap on it
- Then disable the Ring camera by tapping on it
- Toggle Motion Detection to the right to disable it
