Ring’s New Pan-Tilt Indoor Camera Can Rotate 360 ​​Degrees

Ring, owned by Amazon, has announced a new version of its wired indoor security camera. O $79.99 Ring Pan-Tilt Indoor Camera adds a motorized pan-tilt base to the Circular indoor camera (2nd generation), which maintains the same features as before: 1080p HD video, two-way talk, motion alerts, built-in siren, and a manual privacy cover that blocks all audio and video. You can now point the camera up, down, and around using the Ring app.

The camera also has a new look, with Ring offering three new colors for the first time on any of its devices. Well, only one has real color; the blush version is a beautiful dark pink. Then there’s a charcoal gray and a cream white, in addition to the existing white and black.

These new shades are also making their way into current static Indoor Camera (2nd Gen) ($59.99), which is a nice update. The colors add a bit of style, and while no one has designed a really nice indoor camera (the Google Nest ones aren’t bad), it’s nice to see some attention being paid to how they look inside a home.

Ring claims the new indoor camera pan and tilt features provide 360-degree coverage. It comes with two different mounts – a ceiling mount and a wall mount – and a 3 meter cable to help you reach the outlets.

The Pan-Tilt Indoor Camera is now available to order, with the black and white versions shipping from May 30th, and the new colors for both models shipping from June 12th.

Although Ring sells a separate $45 pan and tilt mount for its larger interior/exterior StickUp CameraThis is the company’s first integrated pan and tilt camera.

I tested several indoor cameras with pan and tilt. Eufy, AqaraIt is TP Link everyone has versions and I find them useful for reducing the number of cameras required inside your home to see everywhere you want.

In my house, a pan and tilt camera can show me whether I left the stove on in the kitchen and whether the patio door is closed. I currently use the Aqara G3, which also has a privacy cover, but which you can activate remotely. If you forget to open your Ring manual cover when you leave home, you won’t be able to check in remotely.

Of course, the only camera that can see everywhere is the Ring Always Home Cam, an autonomous home security drone designed to fly around your home when you’re away. The company has been promising to launch it for years and even demonstrated it at CES 2023. Then former Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff told me that 2024 would be the earliest we could expect to see it flying into our homes. I am still waiting.

As with all Ring cameras, the new Pan-Tilt Indoor Camera requires a Ring Protect Subscription (from $4.99 per month) for any recorded video. Without it, you will only receive motion alerts and live view of the feed. A subscription also adds personal alerts and advanced notifications.

Ring recently added two new features to its Ring Protect subscription: a Multi-Cam Live View that plays four Live Views simultaneously per location via Ring’s web portal, and Live View Picture-in-Picture, which lets you keep one Live View playing in a popup even if you switch to a different app.

This feature launched in February and I found it very useful for streaming Taylor Swift’s new album while keeping an eye on my chicks.