[prayerie]

Having tried to do this already to no avail, does anyone know if as an owner of one of these Ring devices if it's possible to take it offline and handle everything locally?

I'm usually against these types of "smart" devices, but only bought it because my house got burgled as a student (whilst I was asleep!), so I got pretty shaken up and got the cheapest thing I could find. Currently, I do have it connected to a local HA instance, but I'm pretty sure that relies on Ring's online services to access it, unless I'm mistaken.

[baby_souffle]

Ring has better than typical device security. If you’re not looking to reverse engineer a brand new exploit, there are other devices that do the same thing but are designed to be local first.

Google for rtsp doorbell and you’ll find many discussion threads

[Noaidi]

Why not just get rid of it? Your anxiety is triggered from the past, not the present. We have lived without these devices in perfect safety and security for a long time. Simplify and be free!

[foobarian]

Unfortunately MAC addresses are hard to mask. With a DIY camera you could customize the MAC address, but it would still be visible. To truly hide it I suppose you'd need to use a wired interface. Ubiquiti used to make 700MHz WiFi adapters but I don't think those are a thing any longer