Ring doorbell

zolakk · April 30, 2019, 3:44pm

Sorry for the late response, I had issues with it too and I was able to solve it by adding a 30 second delay to the rule because it takes a bit for the video to actually be saved on the ring.com server

halloween · May 9, 2019, 7:17am

Hi,
i´m looking for a video doorbell for my house.

But i want a doorbell, which works completely offline from the internet without any cloud service. I want to save the video stream to a local server.

I think all ring doorbell versions need a cloud service to work with full features.

Any advice which device would be possible for me? If i could use the ring doorbell completely offline from internet without cloud, it would be my favorite.

momo90 · May 9, 2019, 7:37am

Check out DoorPI https://www.doorpi.org/forum/?l=2
But it’s a DIY solution

halloween · May 9, 2019, 7:42am

Thanks, i know this, but a small good looking solution like a ring and ready to use would be great, without any DIY. Not much time for this.

Pezzi42 · May 9, 2019, 8:58am

Try DoorBird - all features work offline, you could even change push notifications to something not dependent on the manufacturer…

halloween · May 9, 2019, 9:13am

Yes, i know doorbird, too. But i was looking for some cheaper devices.

Doorbird, Mobotix, … there are many “big” ip-doorphones with cam out there. But they are very expensive…

Pezzi42 · May 10, 2019, 7:42am

What is your main requirement? I’m happy to be proven wrong, but apart from DoorBird, I do not know of any video doorbell which works completely without the cloud and can save to a local server.

However, depending on your requirements, there are workarounds, especially with openHAB (and even with out too much DYI, at least in terms of hardware). Example:

get an Amazon Dash Button (or any other smart button compatible with openHAB) and a cheap IP camera and have the ip camera record whenever the button is pressed.
just mount the ip cam to your door and record whenever there is movement

If you want push notifications, however, these only work with cloud, by definition (though you could use openHAB cloud, which makes it a little more “local” in a way).

halloween · May 10, 2019, 7:47am

Ring doorbell would be exactly what i want to have, but only in hardware way. I want to do the software part with my own server-storage and openhab cloud.

So long there is no alternate firmware or a way to send the ring data directly to my server instead of ring-cloud, i will have to search for another device.

Pezzi42 · May 10, 2019, 8:03am

Actually, I also have a ring (though I have a doorbird as my main doorbell) and if there would be an alternate firmware or other direct storage way, I’d use this, too!

epicurean · May 10, 2019, 1:23pm

I am praying someone creates a binding for Axis doorbell (eg A8105)

Teknokill · May 30, 2019, 11:11pm

I have a Ring. I saw that someone has created a add-on to Home Assistant for Ring. I saw it’s advertisement on their add-on page. I checked it out on You-tube and it looks great. I wonder if the code is on Git.

jsable · June 14, 2019, 3:52pm

Hi All,

Finally got around to installing this binding, but I am having the same issues that people have mentioned before, I am getting the “401 Unauthorized” error when attempting to download the latest video from the ring server. Getting the recording link from the Rest API, I can open it in a browser window, but to execute a wget to download, I get the 401.

I have tried downloading the most recent video, was timestamped yesterday, so there should be no issue with the ring server rendering it. Also, everything else seems to be working. I have also cut and pasted some of the rules from this post (changing the item names only to match my system) and I nothing is downloaded. Is there any special permissions that need to be set? I am using OpenHabian 2.4.0.0.1 (stable release).

Thanks for the binding, seems to work well so far!

~John

markus7017 · June 14, 2019, 5:15pm

what’s the wget command you are using?
you need to specify the token

jsable · June 15, 2019, 1:32pm

@markus7017,

I copied my “RingURL” from the Rest API, going to items and getting the state, copying it to a new tab to make sure the link works, which has the token in the link. So, I’ve been using:

wget https://api.ring.com/clients_api/dings/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/recording?api_version=11&auth_token=[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] -O /etc/openhab2/tmp/ring.mp4

The last event was from about 5 minutes ago, so the ring servers should have had plenty of time to render or save the video.

~John

zskadar · June 28, 2019, 10:06am

Hi, I’ve got a Ring Pro with a chime installed, I use this binding with latest snapshot OH2, but I experience, when OH starts, the things and items coming online, but after a while, the battery status stops refreshing. It seems it’s just getting on startup, but there is no any update, when it’s changing in the ring app. Is there any way to query this information? Last year, when I bought the Ring Pro, the first one worked only 20 days. The Li-Po battery inside exhausted, and the whole Ring Pro died. The support sent to me a new one, it worked only for 15 minutes on my desk… The support sent to me a 3rd one, this is what works since last december. This is why it’s really important for me :).

zolakk · June 28, 2019, 3:55pm

Are you still getting other events like motion and ring?

zskadar · June 28, 2019, 7:21pm

Unfortunately not. When OH starts, the account and the device things going online, after that may the first action noticed the items, but later nothing. The things are online, I can restart the bundle or disable and re-enable the thing on paper ui, the things go to down and back to up online, but there is no updates. All of my other stuff works like a charm, I’ve got notices via IFTTT from Ring, and my google home mini speaks when an action happens.First time I’ve used the paper ui for the configuration, but I’ve wrote it into files later. It seems it isn’t helped.

Update:
Today morning I’ve experienced, the ring account was in offline (comm error) state. I’ve disabled the account thing and re-enabled it:

2019-06-29 10:11:23.167 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'ring:account:ringAccount' changed from OFFLINE (COMMUNICATION_ERROR): Initialization failed: null to UNINITIALIZED
2019-06-29 10:11:23.242 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'ring:account:ringAccount' changed from UNINITIALIZED to UNINITIALIZED (DISABLED)
2019-06-29 10:11:24.165 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'ring:account:ringAccount' changed from UNINITIALIZED (DISABLED) to INITIALIZING
2019-06-29 10:11:24.196 [INFO ] [hab.binding.ring.internal.RestClient] - Creating Ring client for API version 11 on endPoint https://api.ring.com
2019-06-29 10:11:25.821 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'ring:account:ringAccount' changed from INITIALIZING to OFFLINE (CONFIGURATION_PENDING): Retrieving device list
2019-06-29 10:11:26.500 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'ring:account:ringAccount' changed from OFFLINE (CONFIGURATION_PENDING): Retrieving device list to ONLINE
2019-06-29 10:11:26.936 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'ring:doorbell:xxxxxxxx' changed from OFFLINE (CONFIGURATION_PENDING): Waiting for RingAccount to initialize to ONLINE
2019-06-29 10:11:26.943 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - RingBatteryLevel changed from 3983 to 4001
2019-06-29 10:11:31.439 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - RingEventVideoURL changed from https://api.ring.com/clients_api/dings/xxx/recording?api_version=11&auth_token=xxx to https://api.ring.com/clients_api/dings/xxx/recording?api_version=11&auth_token=xxx

The battery state updated.

Update #2
I’ve set DEBUG log level for Ring binding, and captured the REST responses from the site, it’s strange, my app shows the battery level changed from 4001 to 4000, I’ve killed the app on my phone, started again, it’s 4000 yet. After that I’ve restarted the account thing on paper ui, there wasn’t any update for battery level item, because the REST response contains 4001 yet instead of 4000, what my app shows.

"time_zone":"Europe/Budapest"
"subscribed":true
"subscribed_motions":false
"battery_life":4001
"external_connection":false
"firmware_version":"Up to Date"

As far as I said, this device is the third one, what I use, may it confused my device inventory on ring’s site. I’ve deleted all of the devices what I’ve sent back when the last one arrived and started working well. I’m a bit confused, it seems the binding doing well, but false data arrives from the api.

May I have to open a ticket on Ring support…

Hansi1 · July 4, 2019, 9:18pm

could you explain this a little? (changing the video size in the sitemap)

zolakk · July 8, 2019, 11:35pm

That is strange, but it would explain why it’s not updating in the binding and possibly some of the other strange issues others have experienced. I don’t know if Ring will be particularly helpful since the api isn’t public but it might be worth a shot reaching out.

zskadar · July 9, 2019, 5:06am

I’ve tried, the first line support was very kind, but when he asked the advanced support with regards of my case, they closed the door, because it’s not an official ring partner’s product .