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Now on every major streamer

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Video Wall Live started as an Apple TV app this spring. As of this month it runs on Apple TV, Fire TV, Google TV, and Roku — the four platforms most streaming devices in the US actually run — and, as of this week, in a web browser too.

This is the short version of how that went, and what we chose not to change along the way.

The order it happened in

Apple TV came first, in the spring. Fire TV followed at the end of July, Google TV a week into August, and Roku the week after that. Four platforms in about fifteen weeks — which sounds fast, and mostly reflects that the hard part was done once.

The hard part was the streaming. Every version does the same thing: it asks Ring for a direct connection to each camera and plays it. Your video goes from Ring to your screen — it doesn’t pass through us, and we don’t store it. Once that worked on one platform, the rest was building the same wall four more times in four different toolkits.

What stayed the same on purpose

  • One plan for every screen. Up to 10 TVs on one Ring account, mixed however you like — three Fire TV Sticks and an Apple TV is fine — at no extra charge.
  • One way to pair. The TV shows an 8-character code; you enter it on your phone. It’s the same flow on all four, which is also why the browser could join without inventing a fifth.
  • One set of settings. Hide a camera, reorder the wall, choose live or snapshots per camera — the same choices, named the same things, wherever you are.

What’s different, and worth knowing

Not everything survives being identical, and pretending otherwise would just make the differences a surprise later.

Roku runs a few seconds behind live. Roku hardware is less powerful than the others, and that’s where it shows. Everything works; the wall just isn’t as instant. We say so on the Roku page before you install rather than after.

Battery cameras behave differently everywhere. A wired camera can stream all day. A battery one can’t, so by default it shows its latest snapshot and goes live when you open it. That’s a per-camera setting, not a platform limitation.

What’s still missing

Samsung and LG smart TVs don’t have a native app yet. If you own one, the browser version is a real answer today — those TVs ship a web browser, and Video Wall runs in it. A native app is still the plan.

The plan is US-only for now. Video Wall is sold as an add-on in the Ring App Store, and Ring currently offers that store to US Ring accounts. As Ring opens it in more countries, Video Wall follows.

Where this leaves things

If you own a streaming device, there’s a version for it. If you own a screen with a browser, there’s a version for that too. One plan covers all of them, and adding a screen has never meant paying again.

Pick your platform on the comparison pages, or start in the help center. Running into something odd on one platform and not another? Tell us — that’s usually how we find it.

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Now on every major streamer — Video Wall Live