Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Plus, Outdoor Home or Business Security with Motion-Activated 1080p HD Video and Floodlights, White

Why it's worth it

The Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Plus puts 2,000 lumens and a 1080p camera on your garage wall with the least fuss of anything here. Alerts land on your phone quickly, the app is genuinely easy, and the 105-decibel siren is loud enough to matter.

Ring's biggest advantage is that everything just works. The app is the one people's neighbors and in-laws already use, which matters more than it sounds. Motion zones are simple to draw. Alerts arrive fast — PCMag's lab timing clocked motion-to-phone notification at under three seconds on average. When someone's at your side gate, three seconds versus fifteen is the difference between watching it happen and reviewing it later.

The 2,000-lumen output lands right in the sweet spot for a house. That's enough to light a two-car driveway and the walk up to your door without turning your yard into a stadium. Brighter isn't automatically better here. Push past roughly 3,000 lumens and you start getting glare that washes out camera detail and irritates the people next door. Ring's spec puts motion detection across a 105-degree field at up to 30 feet.

From our review of 8 security floodlights

What we like

• +Ring's biggest advantage is that everything just works
• +The 2,000-lumen output lands right in the sweet spot for a house
• +It hardwires, and that's the right call for a fixture you'll forget about
• +The siren is the underrated part

What to know

• –The camera is 1080p, and that's the real compromise
• –Night vision is infrared, so recordings come back in black and white