Dual surveillance cameras: Ring Indoor Cam vs Yale SV-DFFI-W

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This duel opposes two wired indoor cameras that can film in Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels): the Yale SV-DFFI-W and the Ring Indoor Cam. Ring is a brand enjoying greater notoriety, but is it a guarantee of quality?

Characteristics

Ergonomics and installation: Yale SV-DFFI-W

With its dimensions (4.5 cm wide and deep for 7 cm high), the Ring Indoor Cam is much more compact and discreet than its competitor (6 cm wide and 10 cm high).

In both cases, the power supply is wired; you must therefore have a socket nearby to connect the device, especially if you choose to fix it in height. Note that the Yale SV-DFFI-W has a long cord of 2 m against 1.60 m for that of its rival; a little nothing that allows a little more latitude during installation.

The Yale SV-DFFI-W has a microSD port to accommodate memory cards of up to 64 GB in order to record its videos, because no offer cloud is not offered. The Ring Indoor Cam, meanwhile, skips the microSD slot to keep its images. With it, the user has no choice but to go through the cloud – payable – from the manufacturer to store its records.

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Both devices do not have an Ethernet port, so it is mandatory to use the Wi-Fi network to operate them. In both cases, the configuration is done via their respective application: Ring Always health home and Yale Smart Living View. Connecting the cameras to the Internet takes only a few moments, and the procedure is explained in each application.

With greater flexibility in its installation, it is the Yale SV-DFFI-W which wins this first game.

Application: Ring Indoor Cam

The Ring Always health home application, to control and configure the Ring Indoor Cam, is fairly intuitive. On the health home page, we can see at a glance the window of the live camera that interests us. Just click on the ad hoc thumbnail to access it. In addition to this ease of use, we appreciate the many settings available.

Indeed, with this application it is possible to adjust the sensitivity of the motion sensors – so as not to be disturbed by the movements of the cat, for example. It is also from this menu that the alarm can be modulated.

For its part, the Yale Smart Living View application is very basic and offers significantly fewer settings. In this, the use is necessarily facilitated. We note, among other things, the impossibility of adjusting the detection sensitivity, which we could deplore. The creation of activity zones – to put certain spaces aside – allows you to select as much space as you want, within the authorized limit (see photo below).

With the Ring app, only three areas can be activated, but their shape is much more flexible than with the Yale Smart Living View app, as shown in the screenshot below.

Both applications provide easy access to the recordings. However, image storage with the Ring Indoor Cam is only done via the cloud from the manufacturer, unfortunately paying.

Conversely, the Yale SV-DFFI-W allows you to store your images for free on a microSD card. This system still involves risks, because you can lose the memory card. In order to keep a dematerialized trace of the sequences recorded on the memory card, all the sequences can be shared by e-mail.

Finally, without a memory card, it is possible to keep track of an activity, if you record the live manually. So, this ehealth is saved in the My files menu ("Me" tab) which returns to the gallery of the smartphone.

With an application more provided in parameters, it is the Ring Indoor Cam which is essential in this round.

Image quality: Yale SV-DFFI-W

These two surveillance cameras have a sensor capable of filming in Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels).

By day

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In day mode, we see that the noise is less pronounced with the Yale SV-DFFI-W. Precision of details is much more effective with this camera as seen with the title of the book. Saturation is slightly higher with the Yale, making the colors more faithful to reality. Finally, contrast management is similar in both cases.

Switching from day to night mode is done in 9 seconds with the Yale SV-DFFI-W, which is quite long when you know that the Ring Indoor Cam only needs 2 seconds to change modes.

By night

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The contrast is slightly higher in night mode with the Yale SV-DFFI-W and, with this camera, you can easily identify an individual's face. Indeed, the noise is less on these images and the details more defined than on the shots of the Ring Indoor Cam.

However, the latter is equipped with a sensitive detection sensor allowing it to detect a movement at 5 m, against 3.8 m for the Yale SV-DFFI-W. However, with it, a face is recognizable or identifiable at 2.70 m against 1.25 m for the Ring Indoor Cam.

With much better image quality day and night, the Yale SV-DFFI-W takes the advantage on this part.

Audio quality: Yale SV-DFFI-W

The speaker of the Yale SV-DFFI-W is powerful enough to hear and understand the other party. In addition, the signal shows no cut or crackling. On the other hand, the quality of the Wi-Fi connection can slightly influence the volume, especially if the sentences are long; it is therefore better to be concise. On the microphone side, even if the transmission of contact sounds with other objects is good, that of the most discreet noises is not very effective because of a slight crackling. However, the volume is largely sufficient for understanding. We can therefore have a voice exchange by this camera.

With the Ring Indoor Cam, things are different. The speaker lacking power, we have to speak loudly to be heard. The timbre of the voices is poorly retransmitted, and the transmission is cut off frequently. For the microphone, the observation is also not very bright. A very crumpled effect prevents the identification of background noises, and the capture is not faithful to retransmit the timbres of voice.

Unlike the Yale SV-DFFI-W, the Ring Indoor Cam has a siren. With a sound volume varying between 69 dB (A) and 71 dB (A), intruders will be potentially surprised. However, it is too low to be heard by the neighborhood in the event of an intrusion.

Consumption: Ring Indoor Cam

The two products are not very energy-consuming, but it is still the Ring Indoor Cam that stands out. We measured a consumption of 0.006 kWh for 5 hours of activity (with a hundred detections and recordings). Reported to the year, this result is equivalent to adding € 1.58 to its electricity bill.

For the Yale SV-DFFI-W, a total of € 2.69 per year must be paid. Even if this is very reasonable, this amount is higher than that of the Ring Indoor Cam which wins this point.

Verdict: Yale SV-DFFI-W

With a much lower price than its rival, the Yale SV-DFFI-W is definitely a good indoor surveillance solution and wins this duel. Its image quality is much higher than that of its competitor, whether in day or night mode. In addition, it offers the choice of image conservation, locally or on a cloud, while Ring charges its users a monthly subscription.

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