Ring Alarm
When the alarm is arming and sensors are in the open position it still arms without notifying me
In the evening when the alarm arms with home mode, I have to check the app to see if any of my sensors are in the open position. E.g I have sensors on my wife's office windows and in the hot weather she opens the windows but often forgets to close them when leaving her office. In the evening when the alarm arms it does this quite happily and tells me that it is armed, but with no reference to the windows that are open. This is only visible in the app. What would be nice is to have the alarm tell me when arming that there are sensors that are not closed and which ones so that I can go and deal with this.
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14-08-2022 02:05:26
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Hi @ka311. With Mode Schedules, if your Ring Alarm needs to bypass one or more sensors at the time of the schedule, that sensor will be bypassed automatically.
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11-05-2023 05:30:45
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KHello Justin, Interesting feature. Does the system have a work around or notification that a window is open? What’s the point if the system is armed with the window is open?
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13-05-2023 04:14:06
THi @ka311. Happy to chime in here for Justin. If you open the Ring app, on the Dashboard, under the Mode buttons, you'll see a text field that lets you know what sensors, if any, are open. If there are no sensors open, it will let you know that all sensors are clear.
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15-05-2023 03:42:09
KHello @Tom_Ring, I am aware and thank you! I am concerned about the lack of an important feature which “alerts” me/user that there is/are open doors or windows, especially in the Home mode where we may go to bed with one or many open windows/doors. I don’t under how Ring justifies this gap? Kyle
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15-05-2023 07:22:29
- K
Tom, this is NOT the issue. The problem statement is: when on schedule mode, Ring can arm (e.g., to Home mode), without alerting for open windows. So, is there a setting to have Ring alert if there are open windows when it arms itself in schedule mode.
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18-05-2023 03:59:07
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THi @ka311. As described in this Help Center article [here](https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001173583-Bypassing-Devices), when using a Schedule, sensors will be automatically bypassed. As we value our neighbors' feedback, we've created a [Feature Request board](https://community.ring.com/c/products/feature-request-board/24). Feel free to add this and any future feature requests there. This will help us to organize and share your requests with our teams here, as well as allow other neighbors to comment and add interest, all in one place. Feel free to link that post you make in the Feature Request board here so other neighbors that come to this thread can easily find your feature!
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18-05-2023 06:43:32
UI cannot believe that engineers see this and think this is OK. This is a SECURITY RISK. Why in the world is this allowed?
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03-09-2024 02:59:40
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Caitlyn_Ring
Hi @terry31. When manually arming the Ring Alarm system with a Contact Sensor that is open, you will be asked to [bypass](https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001173583-Bypassing-Devices) the open Sensor. Are you arming your system via the [Mode Schedules](https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060532451-How-to-Arm-and-Disarm-Ring-Alarm-with-Mode-Schedules) feature, or are you manually arming the system via the Ring app or your Keypad?
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15-08-2022 08:19:59
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