Ring Floodlight Cam Hack - Mounting Horizontal Under An Eave or Overhang
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2018
- BG199 - Quick video on how to do a simple hack using a Dremel tool to allow your Ring Floodlight cam to mount horizontal underneath an overhang, eave, soffit, etc. Simple and takes 10 minutes max to get great results. Easy home security system to install and setup.
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Thanks for the video. I bought a ring and I was gonna cut as you suggested, but it wasn’t necessary. I did as Robert etherington suggested. I was able to rotate the cam lock collar 180 degrees. It took me a few minutes to figure this out.
Great video, just finished my install under the eves and everything worked out great! There is a quick fix for the overhang being on the bottom of the LEDs: grab the LED arm and unscrew it (counterclockwise) 180 degrees. Tighten the lock collar at the bottom to hold the arms in the new position. Then, loosen the thumbscrew on the LED elbow and flip them around so the lights again point forward - with the little overhang now on the top over the LEDs.
Thanks for the helpful video. Took less than five minutes to do the same modification with a Dremel and it worked like a dream.
It's 2 years later, and they still have the same issue. Got out my Dremel and a grind wheel and prepped it in maybe 3 minutes. I was thinking the problem in the installation was me, but it was not. Thanks for the video.
Just bought one myself and wondered about soffit mounting. Found your video and now I'm going to install mine. Thanks for your DIY video solution.
That’s exactly the difficult that I had. Thank you very much for this video.
Great I was thinking of doing this. Seeing your video made me sure it would work. Mine are mounted under eve and no about of fiddling with the ball joint would fix it. I took it out turned it upside down nope. I experiment with dremel first on PCV pipe. Now it can see entire back yard and Bottom sensor is level with ground just like instructions say. My old lights were under this eve for 37 years and no rust. So i'm not worried about
weather here in MN. I did drop the little nut in the snow but found it! It was 20 degrees out and I did it on a ladder! Thanks a bunch.
Exactly what I was looking for. I knew it would be a problem but wasn’t sure what I would need to do. Thanks
Excellent work mate, love the hack innovation!
Thank you for this. One of the reasons I haven't bought one was I thought it can only be mounted on a wall.
Awesome. That was my hold up on buying. Thanks for your video
Just what I needed. Hey, good cap video as well. Coincidentally stumbled across your other videos when looking for this Ring mounting video.
I was wondering and this answered it. Thanks buddy!!
Really helpful. I was struggling to mount my Ring cam to the ceiling.
Did like you said. Worked perfect. The instructions said that camera comes out of box in eave mountion position . They lied.
Genius. Ring should hire you as they obviously don't care to update their design.
Thanks for the video. I’ve taken my floodlight cam down because of the angle of the camera not being able to adjust as I needed it to. Now that I’ve watched your video, I’m headed to my garage right now to do this and reinstall it. 👍🏾
Excellent video. Thanks for a great solution to my mounting problem!
Thank you for posting this video! It is still relevant!
Thanks a million. Going to try this. You are the man.
Thx, this is what I was searching for.
Thank you the video. I'm researching buying one of these...
Definitely gonna have to try this .. Great video
I just finished mounting our Ring Floodlight Camera on the corner under our roof overhang. No issue whatsoever and no modification necessary. We are using it to monitor from our driveway to the garage door and while we don't have a very long driveway (2 cars fit) I didn't even use all of the 'throw. Good tip for those who need more range though.
thanks for the video it worked out great with mine ,Ring should definitely do something about it
Well heck, so obvious, and so easy. Those are the best mods! Thanks
Great hack !! I love every time someone just improves on any given design. 👍🏽
Seems like some people commenting here misunderstood poster's installation situation.
Installing the unit VERTICALLY against a wall is not the problem. The problem he had:
installing the unit under an eave, thus, mounting it HORIZONTALLY, then you will encounter the situation
as he described: which was not having enough "play" for the camera to tilt up to give him
more camera view coverage.
I came here because I am having the same situation, so thanks a lot Blueglow for sharing your ingenuity!
Same issue I am facing! Thanks for the info and great hack!
Had the exact same issue thanks for the video it helped a lot
Love it brah, also good comments on updates.
The newer ones you can rotate the camera arm, unscrew the bolt and nut, spin it so the nut part is on the top, inset camera with motion sensor at the bottom and you can get the same angle. As someone else pointed out you can unscrew the light tighteners at the base and rotate them also so the lights are the correct way also. Plan on mounting tomorrow.
Wow! Thanks for this for real. I got one of these a while ago but, we have had bad weather here and I now have a chance to put it up. I need to mount it on the soffit. I was lucky to find this.
thank you so much, work as a service tech so i put up about 20 of this unit already and yes cant mounted on the soffit unit now , even on the wall i do run into problem getting the right angle.
Hey Shaq...thanks for putting your name stamped on this product.
Thanks for the tip, going to do the same with mine. Very big help.
Great hack!!! I just ordered a Foscam just like this, I was wondering how I was going to mount this under my eve. Perfect...
Tried to find a 45 degree elbow but could not match threads, so decided to try your hack. SUCCESS...I did remove the wire nuts so I could pull the wires out of the plastic mount, made the Drexel grinding easier.
How did you remove the wire nuts?
The design changed a bit, not the part you grinded away is in sections so I just pulled it out with channel locks. Worked great, thanks for the video!
Well done that was a really good tutorial!
I knew the warranty police would be scolding you over the obvious.
We pay double the price you pay for them in Australia
You can also just spin the tube that has the female end of the ball 180• so that the open end strap (the side with screw) is facing opposite direction and that allows the ball socket to swivel more toward the ground for eve mounting. No need to grind or shave the part. In short, losen the pipe/ tube that ball socket mounts to and flip it around. The camera can now be swiveled toward the ground for eve mount.
Thanks do you have a video the shows that process for anyone to review?
@@petedoanato7287 , sorry, I don’t. I installed the unit under my eve after watching this and several other videos. While doing so I discovered that there is NO NEED to grind anything as it would likely void your warranty instantly.
Alternative ruclips.net/video/HBsgJc2poJ8/видео.html
Yep, it's just like any electrical box. back it off or back off the jam nut and rotate then set the jam nut.. Check your wires and all that still as you don't want it to get twisted up too much.
@@johnbowen8917 hard to believe so many had to go through grinding and cutting. You’d think Ring would explain what to do for under eve application so you don’t have an issue returning device if it doesn’t work after installing. 🤷🏻♂️
Thanks. Well done. Great video.
I was lucky I was able to mounted my ring on a brick wall. It just happened to work out for me. Nice hack Mark!
Very clever! You analyzed the problem, and modified the existing part in order to accommodate your need for mounting under an eave. Hope the manufacturer took notice!
Thank you for your detailed and very instructive video!
You can just turn the overhang for the lights as well if you want. It’s what I did.
Nice tip plus nice deck...Cheers
Great info, Thank you
Great video, thanks for the help.
Thank you. You just gave me ideas to extend the camera cables so I can install the floodlights higher and camera much lower. (of course, running wires through the wall and creating a new wall mount base for camera)
Thanks was trying to figure it out
Great idea! Thank you.
well done! thanks for this.
Thanks so much for your video. I was wanting to buy one but coulee they find any mounting bracket.
Thanks for posting. Two thumbs up
Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. Very helpful.
good job . just what i needed to know..
Loosen the light collars and rotate the lights with the shades above the lights, not below as you show. Your hack is well done.
4:53 It is possible to get the overhang (shield part on top of the lights) to be the right way around; you just need to remove the innermost cover (two screws). That gives you access to the screws that hold the light fixtures in places. Remove those screws there and you can simply flip the light fixtures round and that's it.
I wish! My unit is brand new and the sealed it with another piece of plastic.
@@lylejohnston4125 it's the exact same unit as mine. It's possible. You just need to disassemble it.
@@GavSaysPogMoThoin Nope. On mine, the plastic looks like it's "sound welded" together. I think I'm going to mount it on the wall and cover the hole in the eave.
I am surprised that Waffles doesn’t provide all the home security one might ever need!
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great idea. thank you sir
i was just thinking about this today
Will it let you spin the Lights around to show the overhang on the top? Looks like you could loosen that connection and spin around.
Exactly what i needed, I have been sitting on this product for 2 years without being able to return it, now I can install under the eave. Question, can I install under the eave on a 2 story house? Will the video cam work well enough from the 20 feet eave??
Thnx for the advise!
I'm more interested in how you wired this into what i assume was an existing dome light? Or did you get the batter powered unit? Mounting as well?
Thanks for the the tip.
As for water, if all else fails, they make silicone covers for the ring spot/floodlight cams. Go figure.
They obviously had to come up with a solution for a known problem. A cover is easier (for them) than re-engineering the same generation camera. The next generation will probably address all these issues.
Mean time, it's just a matter of being smarter than the camera. There's a way to fix almost anything. :)
Might be a dumb question, but how did you mount this to the vinyl soffet? I am getting some of the smaller stick up cams with batteries and figured I would have to do some extra work to get it to mount up there.
Thank you! I just about took this thing back!
You rock!!! Thank you:)
Thank you so much for the great video. I want to install this in my car port. I will replace the ceiling light in the soffit area and point the camera to the front entrance. Thanks again. 👍🏻😁
Great vid thank you
Thank you so much. It works perfectly and I also loosened the Locking nuts for the LED lights and spun it around so now the light covers are on top. Just a heads up
I just noticed that also.
Ring has fixed the design, it comes shipped in the position to be mounted under a soffit.
I just bought mine in December of 2023 and it hasn’t been redesigned. My video is upside down.
That’s a great hack!
Yeah! Great video! Drag 'em kickin n screaming into the light my friend. Way to go if you ask me. :)
Big help thanks!
Which mounting materials did you use for the overhang?
Seems there is a gap between the boards and the roof, mine looks like yours. So something special to get it to holding in there?
Thanks in advance
Did you install the wiring through the under ease also ??
How high do you think they can be mounted and still see? Both my existing lights are under eves on the second story about 22 feet up
Before cutting try rotating the ball joint 180 degrees so the lock screw is on top and you are pushing the light into that direction. I tried it and it gives you more play. It gave me enough so the motion ball is exaclty parallel to the ground as in the picture on page 5. If you are super low and need more then you will have to cut but this at least gives you more play so you can match the manual.
Hello, Does someone know where I can buy or find that spare collar adjustment..... My camera is already broke for that reason please some help if some know where to find that one again
So the camera only tilt up and down only not left to right?
Does this camera move left & right at all? I'm afraid it won't get the view I am looking for. Thanks!
Nice tip
Would it effect the product warranty? I would still do the mod! Ring had enough time to change it!
What model is the one in the video?
I'm hoping he or someone can explain how he attached it to the soffit under the eave, like what screws are holding it up, or is there something behind the soffit that gives the screw something to hold on to?
Thank you 🙏🏻
Thanks!
Thank you so much I am going to try this the only issue I will have is I have to do it installed! So glad I found your video!!!!!!
Enjoyed your video and your hack trick, however all you have to do is Loosen All Nuts and turn and adjust the camera (turn the ball lock so it is facing the top of the camera) and lights the way you want it, including turning the lights (loosening the lock nut on the base, adjust and retighten) the shield is above the led light.
Pressure washing will affect the water-resistant capability of the fixture.
Thank you
The camera and ball that’s attached actually just pop out and you can just turn the camera around and pop it back in instead of drilling anything out .
This is the right answer. Simply pop the camera out from the socket and turn it around. The lights will also swivel to the right direction and have the hoods be aligned properly. Didn't have to grind away or otherwise modify the camera.
Excellent suggestion I did exactly what you said.
No cutting fits excellent under the Eve.
Ideally you’d be correct, unfortunately simply popping the ball out and flipping the unit will not provide adequate room/play/articulation to instal the infrared sensor (dome/ball) parallel to the ground. I did this very mod, it works like a champ. This is a simple mod for most, but some may find it difficult to perform without a Dremel/rotary tool. 👍
We did flip things but we will still need to notch like this because we don't have enough play to get the angle we want. So you kind of need to do both things. To get this perfect.
I tried that, but it didn't get the camera quite level enough - still cut out a little trough.
Thank You, Sir wondering about the exact installation.👍
All you have to do remove the ball from the socket and turn the camera 180°.... then pop it back in. No cutting required... lol.
That's exactly what I did too. Works perfect. Even some to spare. So far its been great under my eave.
@@CyclingDad pics?
@@TravisPickle Not sure how to post pics to RUclips, or if there's a function for it. But essentially you just loosen screw so you can pop the cam out. Then loosen that thread near the base. Rotate that part 180 so that the part where the screw tightens is at the top closest to the base (facing up when mounted), then tighten that collar again. Pop the camera back in and tighten screw. I was able to get it level without issue. The collars on the lights themselves can be loosened and then the light covers can protect them pretty well too. What I don't know is if there are different gens of the floodlight. I had thought about this a couple years ago but never bought one since I couldn't see how it would work in this orientation. But this time, I bought it thinking I'd just grind it a bit like in this video. After tinkering for a few mins accidentally stumbled on to what I described. It was nice not having to grind it, but again, that may be just the latest version of the cam you don't have to, not sure...
@@CyclingDad I found a video to demonstrate, thank you.
in case others want to see, ruclips.net/video/HBsgJc2poJ8/видео.html
Yes! You just pop out the socket, flip it and pop back in. Works just fine. You can flip the lights over too so it looks normal.
I just took the ball joint out and flipped it upside down as it can rotate more one way then the other. Ended up not needing to grind down the ball mount at all.
Y didnt u just install ontop of the door frame... was curious u done it the other way
Nice hack. But my overhang is 12 feet and not necessary. Also, I've seen others install with the light shades upside down. Not a good idea if you get any blowing snow. Nice video.
I love the hack. However, the new Floodlight comes with a metal collar and can't be ground down because it is high enough. It looks like they have intentionally thwarted this hack. I'll keep my old motion Floods and put in a doorbell instead.