Ring doorbell

[guterm (Vadim Gouterman)]

@arjan-io, would you mind sharing a sample configuration for a Ring device or two?

[arjan-io (Arjan)]

If you haven’t removed the mqtt:homeassistant stuff yet, find the location ID, device IDs and the type from their respective MQTT-topics.

Now make sure you (have) install(ed) the MQTT binding.

Under Things, click the + and click on ‘MQTT Broker’ to set up the Bridge.

Under Things, click the + and click on ‘Generic MQTT Thing’.

Give it an ID, Label and point to the MQTT Bridge you just created.

Go to the tab ‘Channel’ and click on ‘Add Channel’.

Give it an ID, Label, click on the Type it should represent and then in the State topic box use the lay-out given on the RING-MQTT GitHub page. So ring/<location_id>/<ring_category>/<device_id>/<device_type>/state .
For example mine looks like ring/a798baXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXc22a9/chime/54eXXXXXXd3b/snooze_minutes/command.

Link your Channel to your Item and you should be set. Good luck!

[arjan-io (Arjan)]

I think there is an update about to be released (version 4.8.4) in which is should be fixed. I tested it today and personally have no further log errors.

[Lars_Deutsch]

Yes, I do. For the time being I chose to filter them out. Especially those JINJA messages are a pain …

[jackmenimble (Angelo)]

I’ve got a Ring Doorbell. How does I get a live stream?
MQTT is already configured and online. But how I get the camera working?

Thanks!

[jwiseman (Mr. Wiseman (OH 4.2 Snapshot on Pi4))]

This is an un-official Ring 3.x release and there is NO maintainer for this version, Siriram did me a BIG favor doing this for me. I’m still testing it but it does come up for account and doorbell THING.

Openhab and Envisalink Vista / Honeywell Alarm

I do not have a Ring doorbell to test but managed to migrate the binding to OH3 and it installed properly in my instance. Let me know if it works for you - https://github.com/basriram/openhab-addons/releases/download/3.2.0.M4/org.openhab.binding.ring-3.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar In case it complains of missing json-simple dependency you can install it manually in karaf console - bundle:install https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/googlecode/json-simple/json-simple/1.1.1/json-simple-1.1.1.jar

Best, Jay

[Home_Agecra]

Hi,

I’m also getting these warning logs after adding ring(mqtt) items/things and could not figure out a way to resolve it. I’ve checked MAP transformation files and still no luck.

[guterm (Vadim Gouterman)]

My ring-mqtt installation suddenly went completely quiet - I can see it properly connecting to Ring, but no messages are being published to mqtt and no errors, nothing. Has anybody seen anything similar?
ring-mqtt developer has gone underground, so I am a bit at a loss here.
I am running ring-mqtt in docker if it makes a difference.

[dotelpenguin (Andrew Baker)]

Ring’s stance on their API since 2015 has been “Coming soon”, it’s existed but pretty much only been in the background, everything that currently exists has been reverse engineered. About 2 months ago Ring changed their stance from “Coming soon” to “We do not support ANY api for non-Ring partners” they also scrubbed their forums of the little API access they did trickle out. My guess is they are most likely killing more and more of what remains and reverse engineered integrations are just going to die. I have already replaced half my ring devices with Ubiquity for this reason.

[guterm (Vadim Gouterman)]

Back alive after restart and token refresh. Looks like it was impacted by yesterday AWS outage.

[Daniel101 (Daniel)]

Worked for me. Thank you very much!

[arjan-io (Arjan)]

@Lars_Deutsch

Yes, I do. For the time being I chose to filter them out. Especially those JINJA messages are a pain …

How did you filter that out?

[Daniel101 (Daniel)]

All, May I please ask a quiestion on the path setting. I want to dump the videos in a windows folder. I’ve allowed full access to the windows folder but not getting the dumps?

\HOME-SERVER\Users\daniel\Documents\Ring\Video.

Not sure if it should be a single \ for double \.

Thanks

Regards

[jackmenimble (Angelo)]

Is somebody able to get a livestream from Ring Doorbell on demand? If yes, how do you do that?

[NCO (E. Gerland)]

I would love to know as well

[StefanH (Stefan Haupt)]

Angelo:

Ring Doorbell (gen2) with ring-mqtt project

Hi all, unfortunately openHAB doesn’t come with any official Ring doorbell binding, but I was lucky to find this project on GitHub Issues · tsightler/ring-mqtt · GitHub It uses the Ring API, this means your Ring device has to be connected to the Cloud, but a Ring protection plan / subscription is NOT required. Long story short, using mqtt-ring openHAB will be notified when motion is detected and when someone rings the bell. Even without a Ring protection plan subscription. Eventually I use th…

[Mario084 (Mario Panzenböck)]

Hello guys,

I also bought a Ring and now want to add it to openhab using this mqtt ring docker image.

I am trying to install but struggeling with the mount path configuration (it´s not described in the official documentation?!).

Using Synology NAS Docker app to use this docker image.

Can someone help me out? Thanks !

EDIT:

Okay I solved it on my own. I used the CLI commands as described in the documentation instead of the GUI from Synology NAS. My mounting path was “/volume2/docker/ring” if anybody wants to know.

[Lee_Humphreys]

Hi @guterm,

Thanks for this. New to OpenHAB and I’m trying to get my Ring Doorbell working with OpenHAB. Have tried the unofficial Ring Binding which I can get to work, but there is a 2/3 minute delay between a “ding” on the Doorbell and the Item being updated in OpenHAB - this makes it unusable.

I’ve not used MQTT before - are your steps above still valid? Step 1 - MQTT Broker - is this also a Binding?

Thanks,
Lee

[guterm (Vadim Gouterman)]

Yes, still all works very well.
MQTT broker is a separate piece of software that passes or “brokers” messages between different entities.
Most commonly used broker for Linux is Mosquitto: https://mosquitto.org/

Best of luck and let me know if you get stuck.

[Lee_Humphreys]

I’ve made progress. Couldn’t get the manual install to work, so now trying Docker. I can see the Docker image detecting my devices on Ring.com - but where do I add the Things in OpenHAB? I’ve followed your steps:

1. Installed Mosquitto.
2. Installed ring-mqtt via Docker
3. Installed MQTT Binding (not sure what to do with this though)
4. Restarted the Docker Instance several times

Not sure where to go in OpenHAB now and start adding the discovered Things (or where they should show up).