It’s possible that you already have an eave or soffit flood light hook-up in your house, and you’re worried about installing a new Ring floodlight camera on top of it?
Is the Ring Floodlight capable of being installed horizontally?
Ring floodlight cameras may be installed horizontally beneath an eave or soffit, despite the fact that the product was meant to operate best when installed vertically. It is necessary to modify and rotate the camera ball-socket mount 180 degrees in order to put the Ring floodlight horizontally. You just need a screwdriver and a few minutes to get the job done!
Mounting Ring Floodlight horizontally has a difficulty.
As a result, the Ring floodlight camera was not designed to be positioned horizontally, but rather vertically.
Ring’s help site, community forums, and Twitter feeds all had inconsistent information on the subject:
Putting the Floodlight Cam on an eaves or attic soffit at an angle of more than 30 degrees may have an impact on motion and light triggering and the camera’s vision.
This is due to the fact that the camera and sensors will be aimed straight at the ground, rather than pointing outward. In most cases, it will impede its ability to work correctly and record.”
“Can Floodlight Cam be installed upside down or horizontally?”
Yes. Wall or ceiling mounting is possible for Floodlight Cam.
Twitter account of Ring: “We do not advocate installing [horizontally] since your device’s range of vision, video and motion detection would be badly impacted. As a result, our Development and Design teams will be aware of your issues and take them into account.”
The motion sensor and video camera’s area of vision are plainly at the heart of this problem.
Motion sensors may be compromised if they’re set at the improper angle, making it difficult to capture the targeted region with the camera.
The bad news is that.
Many Ring floodlight users have successfully put their camera beneath an eave or soffit, and this is fantastic news for all of us.
It wasn’t long until there was an obvious winner, using just one instrument and little effort.
Mounting a Ring Floodlight camera horizontally is the best option.
In order to correctly place the Ring floodlight camera horizontally, you just need to make this one adjustment:
- Remove the screw that regulates the camera/motion sensor angle using the screw driver that comes with the package.
- Pop the camera out of the ball-and-socket connection with the screw removed.
- By hand, unscrew the lug nut on the base of the ball-and-socket connection.
- It is necessary to turn the camera’s connection ball and socket 180 degrees so that the screw for tightening is now at its uppermost position.
- Reconnect the camera to the ball and socket connection and screw it back in place.
If you’re having difficulties following the instructions above, here’s a video explanation.
It simply takes a minute or two to complete this procedure, which enables the camera/motion sensor angle to change freely when the device is in an upside down, horizontal orientation.
The Ring Floodlight camera may now be mounted horizontally.
If your camera/motion sensor doesn’t have adequate range of motion for your horizontal application after making the aforementioned change, you have another option.
It is important to note that the collar of the ball as well as socket mount is permanently altered when this procedure is completed.
The Ring floodlight’s warranty may be voided as a result of this.
What to do now that we’ve gotten it out of the way is this:
- Remove the screw that regulates the camera/motion sensor angle using the screw driver that comes with the package.
- Pop the camera out of the ball-and-socket connection with the screw removed.
- It is possible to grind down the ball-and-socket connection using an appropriate cutting tool. Unrestricted movement of the camera lens is possible here.
If you’re having difficulties following the instructions above, here’s a video explanation.
With a particular tool and some patience, you can grind down the camera arm enough (and with enough control so as not to accidently nick the wire) in order to complete this task.
This is a method you should only use if your particular configuration necessitates it.
However, I believe it’s reasonable to conclude that this method works and is a viable alternative.
Using a Ring Floodlight to replace an old light fixture
Installing your Ring floodlight horizontally now that you’ve learned how to improve the camera/motion sensor angle is a breeze.
Before making any alterations to an existing light fixture, always turn the power off at your circuit breaker!
Many injuries may be averted if this simple precaution were taken.
In order to replace your old light fixture with a Ring floodlight, switch off the power and follow these steps:
- There is no standardization here, so have a look and you’ll find out how to remove the fixture. This normally requires the removal of only a few screws.)
- Remove the wire nuts now that the wires are exposed (A voltmeter may be used to verify that the power is indeed zero, if desired.)
- Disconnect the connections and take out the old fixture completely now…
- There’s a chance you’ll come upon some rusted-out fasteners while doing this.
- The new Ring floodlight hardware and mounting bracket should be installed. Play around with the bracket’s position to see which way the camera will point in the end!
- Hang the Ring flood light from the package’s hanging hook while you wire it up.
- Wires of the same color are connected by white, black, and ground wires
- To secure the light, screw it into the screws and tighten the nuts supplied.
- Now that the light has been adjusted, you may adjust the camera’s position by adjusting the screw on the rear.
- When required, unscrew and tighten each LED light bracket by hand.
- Using the Ring mobile app, complete the setting!
If you’re having difficulties following the instructions above, here’s a video explanation.
Conclusion
It’s feasible to position a Ring floodlight camera horizontally beneath an eave or soffit, despite conflicting instructions from the company.
Rotate the camera’s ball-and-socket connection by 180 degrees to do this.
This is a quick fix that just requires a screwdriver.
A permanent modification to the collar of the ball as well as socket may be made if that adjustment doesn’t provide adequate range of motion.
Hopefully, this information has been useful to you while you installed your software. Let me know what you think in the comments.