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Flashing or strobing light system for hearing impaired
Hello, My parents are Deaf and we have the Ring doorbell 2 set up! It’s great and linked to their phones but would be great if there was something for our Hearing impaired users. Something that would be linemen up to the house lights where they could flash when someone rings the bell. We had a system like this before with our old doorbell with flashing beacons in every room but since ring has been installed we don’t have that anymore as we took away the old doorbell. It would be great if someone could come up with an idea for our hearing impaired compadres.
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25-05-2020 08:40:44
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I use Alex to control my Hue lights for the Ring doorbell. It would be great if it would extend to the Ring Alarm. Something like IFTTT would be awesome for deaf and hard of hearing community without putting all responsibilities on Ring.
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17-11-2020 01:08:02
PNickihegs, you can do this for yourself! Try it out. Resolution: When Ring Doorbell rings, trigger Light flashing For who: Deaf & Hard of Hearing Community After getting tired of using IFTTT due to 15 - 30 seconds delay, I decided to do some research and I have found the resolution. I am currently using Apple Homekit which is much better than using IFTTT app. Here is my replication and how it works: Replication: Ring Doorbell 2 - front Phillip Hue Bridge - can use any bulbs or stripe Nest Protect by Google Nest (Smoke/Fire/Carbon trigger, Flashing red light) HOOBS (https://hoobs.com/ Purchase the device) Apple HomeKit app Resolution: 1. Setup HOOBS +(https://hoobs.com/) and follow the instructions to get all these devices to work together. 2. Open Apple Homekit - Follow instructions how to add devices into Apple Homekit -- If you see "Front Door" button in front of the screen, click the button -- Under Automations: Doorbell Motion Detected - turn it off -- Under Actions: Click on Single Press to open 3. Under Do: - Click on to open - Scroll down all the way to the bottom and select Short cut. You will spend time under Short cut how to function the light flashing. Here is the settings:  Continue until complete the setting for Doorbell. Give yourself a try with this method and I hope this helps.
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10-03-2023 09:40:29
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My existing DSC Alarm has a feture that cause a strobe light to flash that is installed under an eve on the front of my house - This can help police and EMTs locate the house quickly. Would be nice of the Ring Alarm could have a silimar feature or triger the existing strobe light.
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29-10-2020 12:07:07
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It was fairly common for traditional alarm systems to have an external visual indicator that an alarm had been tripped to assist authorities in quickly locating the source from their vehicles where they might not be able to hear (especially if their sirens are also sounding). I was very surprised the find out that the connected device option for my wired floodlight (probably the first Ring device I ever purchased, btw) only has the option to begin recording. Honestly, with the placement of the floodlight in my driveway, recording _after_ an alarm is tripped is mostly pointless unless a burglar is dumb enough to park in my driveway. This feature is probably even more important in multi-family properties like 2-4-plexes. This feature should go hand-in-hand with several other feature requests related to Ring devices with speakers also acting as alarm sounders. Anything to help authorities more quickly locate an alarming property is of paramount importance, especially if/when a panic or medical alert button is pressed. And ideally, this ability would include 3rd party devices that can be controlled by Echo devices, like my Hue light system, where all internal lights could begin flashing red, or all lights turn on full-bright and pulsate or something.
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15-11-2020 06:47:11
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Hi. I set this up for myself bridging Alwxaand Hue Lights through the IFTTT app. Once my doorbell rings Alexa sounds a notification and turns my lights on and off.
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17-11-2020 01:14:42
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My thoughts. Ring fully integrated z-wave alert and emergency lighting device using LED strip lights. The device could be deployed in each home/business zone (I.e. living room, dining room, basement, etc.) where if a sensor is tripped, the LED lights turn on (or flash) in that zone with a specific color like RED to provide a visual indication (could be useful to someone who’s hearing impaired) of where the sensor was tripped. In addition, these strip lights could have battery backup and detect when primary power drops and automatically turn on (white color or other) as emergency lighting. Can be manually controlled from the app as maybe “mood lighting” or even incorporate a schedule within the app to control the light timing if emergency lighting turns on, but not needed at moment. I don’t think there’s anything currently available that goes to that level of incorporation with the Ring app. Also, you could have of these devices in let’s say the master bedroom as a silent/visual alert by flashing some annoying color when alarm sensor is triggered . I’d buy a few of those:)
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08-02-2021 09:49:21
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nickihegs
I just checked with support and they don't have flashing alarm components for the deaf. Progressively losing my hearing, and set off my alarm without knowing letting the dog out, didn't have my phone in my pocket and didn't get a notification anyway. I live in a 900 sqft apartment and the keypad was in the same room. It's kind of terrifying to think that if I'm home alone I could just not know if my alarm is being set off. Support actually said I'd get a phone call if it was serious. If I'm not awake and glued to my phone, I wouldn't know if my phone is going off, let alone be able to hear the call. My alarm clock flashes, my fire alarm flashes, my echo has captions... why doesn't ring have an accessible flashing alarm?
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20-08-2020 09:53:53
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