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I ended up with Nest based on negative recommendations from colleagues about battery operated ones in general and the tradeoffs on speed/wake up time...

The caveat is the design on the wired Ring and Nest is silly, with non detachable USB cable that needs to go through a wall, so you have to cut the cable unless you want a giant hole, especially if you are fishing/feeding the cable through several obstacles. The nest HD looks crisp as hell though and I picked them on past experience and res, they tend to have quality products..

I ended up cutting the cable and soldering the ends back together. Harder that I anticipated, there are 2 power wires, as you'd expect, but also in the middle a shielded sleeve containing 2 tiny wires presumably video and sound (?), like a few strands of hair each. You have to peel that shielding off, strip the insulation (hard to do without breaking the tiny wire), and it makes for very precise soldering of tiny wires sitting too close together, followed by annoying rewrapping on the 4 wires (I did not have shrink tubing this small). But in the end, it worked, so it's fine.

The nest software is truly super simple to setup and configure for detection. The magnetic mount is clever but in some ways limit the angles you can do, so you must pick the mounting spot more carefully than you would with a traditional articulated mount. Night vision is head and shoulders better than my old D-link (when it worked ;-) I'm sure Ring is great too, just letting you know Nest is nice and doable, and the picture quality is phenomenal.