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Physical On/Off Switch Control of Lamps
For the Ring Floodlight-Cam "_Quickly turning your lights on and off via a physical switch is actually a manual override of sorts and is found in any brand of floodlight, not just the Floodlight Cam, as a safety feature. To turn off your floodlights after a power cycle, use the manual "lights" control in your Ring app._ " [[SOURCE](https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004155866-Controlling-the-Floodlights-and-Light-Settings-on-Your-Floodlight-Cam)] While not as clear as it could be, I believe Ring is stating that a quick off-on toggle [i.e., "power cycle"] of the physical light switch will turn on the Floodlight-Cam lamps, and to turn off the lamps you can use the Ring app.My initial testing of the **Ring Smart Floodlight** indicates this new product does not support this mechanism to manually turn on the lamps (quick Off-On toggle of a physical switch). Can others confirm this limitation?
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24-05-2019 13:55:57
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> @TheCarsForever wrote: > > I have experience a few power brownouts and actual outages since the light has been installed and never experienced the lights staying on afterward. My experience has been that the lights revert to normal functionality after an outage. I cannot imagine a power outa
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26-06-2019 11:32:39
AI was interested in purchasing the wired Floodlights. I currently have wired floodlights that work off an indoor switch. I was trying to find out from support if I can just switch the current floodlights to Ring smart wired floodlight and still use them with the switches they are wired to? I woul
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06-08-2019 01:26:26
BSorry @Marley\_Ring, why does the Ring wired Floodlight behave differently than the Ring Floodlight Cam and from a conventional motion sensor based floodlight? I am not following the logic. You are essentially saying you do not support the use case of mimicing a conventional floodlight connected to
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06-08-2019 14:09:45
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Yes I have that same problem with my ring floodlight cam. A typical floodlight will turn on and stay on with a double flick of the switch. Unfortunately my ring floodlight cam will not even turn the lights on nevermind to keep them on with the double flick on the switch that would normally use atypical floodlight. This becomes a huge pain in the butt as the light will not turn on due to a roof angle until we are well into the darkness. As it is now if I do not have my phone on me I cannot just double flick the switch on the wall to turn on the lights I have to go find my phone or take a dark Journey. Ring please help
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05-03-2020 06:36:45
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SI just ordered the Floodlight Cam, Floodlight Wired and bridge. I should have done more research and mistakenly assumed these would react to an On/Off switch like other motion lights. I may have to reconsider and may be returning the lights I ordered. Not sure I want to have to go into the app on my
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07-08-2020 13:50:10
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You could use a smarthome "remote" button. Something like these would allow you to trigger smarthome actions, like turning on lights that are app controlled and not physically switch controlled. [https://www.amazon.com/3-Pack-Flic-Buttons-Control-control/dp/B084H3NNZ9](https://www.amazon.com/3-Pack-Flic-Buttons-Control-control/dp/B084H3NNZ9)I have also seen people hack Amazon dash buttons with ifttt to do the same thing.
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02-10-2020 13:48:50
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SHow exactly does a smart switch control the floodlight cam? I’d expect to be able to configure this through an Alexa routine, but the input options for Alexa routines are limited to sensors, locks and doorbells. I’ve tried to use Lutron dimmer states to control floodlight but Alexa app doesn’t suppo
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04-10-2020 12:51:15
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TheCarsForever
I have the Floodlight Cam 2 and have not seen any physical switch. I do have it wired to a physical switch in my home though as it is on a pole intended for flood lights. I have experience a few power brownouts and actual outages since the light has been installed and never experienced the lights staying on afterward. My experience has been that the lights revert to normal functionality after an outage.
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26-06-2019 02:03:14
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