Ring Alarm
Night mode, no delay on alarm?
As far as I can tell, there are only 2 modes for the Ring alarm, Home and Away. On Away, the alarm activates immediately if a sensor is triggered. On Home it gives a delay so that you can disarm it before it activates the siren. I would like a “ night” mode that is set up like “home” but will activate the alarm and siren if a door is opened. Right now, if someone were to break in while we’re sleeping, it would just give the delay. My old system had the night mode and we loved it. The only reason we switched to Ring is because Time Warner dismantled their Intelligent Home Security System.
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02-04-2020 12:52:41
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Can you please make an extra MODE like Night/Sleep mode. Now i have to change evertything and i dont like it. Thank you!
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20-10-2020 05:52:23
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SI've been tempted to set entry delay to zero in home mode but I'm concerned that I might forget to disarm the system before I leave and trip an immediate alarm. So, not sure just yet but I'm glad it can be done.
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20-10-2020 11:53:05
K@Caitlyn\_Ring and @Chelsea\_Ring perhaps instead of constantly sending people to a Feature Request Board to be ignored ring should do something about it. I posted about this same issue a week ago, and was directed to the same board by a poster. In fact that same poster also said it was a most requested feature. Why is Ring not listening? Additionally, they referenced me to several other posted that were made all about the same thing! Why is Ring not listening?
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26-10-2020 02:46:11
THi @kxb177. Chiming in here! The Feature Request board, as mentioned earlier, is where our teams gather information on how to improve Ring. Many of the updates that happen in the Ring app, actually stem from these Feature Requests. Most recently, we've added [Customizable Motion Zones](https://community.ring.com/t5/Ring-Device-Tips-and-How-To-s/Feature-Update-Customizable-Motion-Zones-for-Battery-Devices/ba-p/62829) and [Rich Text Notifications](https://community.ring.com/t5/Ring-Device-Tips-and-How-To-s/Ring-App-Rich-Notifications/ba-p/62108), to name a few. We value your feedback and we appreciate your patience as we work to improve your experience with Ring.
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28-10-2020 05:19:54
- J
I agree. It’s one of the things that bothers me the most. The system is great, sometimes a bit glitchy, but really good. The biggest thing it needs, is a “Night” or “Sleep” mode.
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01-05-2021 07:24:23
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Add Night Mode to allow instant alarm when any sensor is triggered. Like almost every other alarm system has. Is just basic common sense. Would like to hear companies argument why it is absent. Night Mode is so you don't have to go into modes EVERY NIGHT to change the setting to give you an extra minute of awareness that a threat has been inside your house for a minute while you are asleep and completely oblivious. It is not the same as "Home" where you have zones that don't trigger alarms and a delay after a sensor is triggered because you are awake and can react to the little notification. Is not the same as "Away" when you need a delay to give you enough time to deactivate the alarm so it does not go off when you come home and open the door and gain access to your keypad. The only reasons I can think of that Ring doesn't have this feature is that 1. They are embarrassed being stuck with already having released their 1st and 2nd gen keypads that are missing the Night Mode button and don't want to look bad since they didn't think it through...or they have some data that indicates all the other alarm companies set off a crazy number of false alarms because of it so the benefit doesn't justify the harm of having that mode? At least make it a setting on the app. Am I missing something? I'm debating returning the whole system.
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02-06-2021 05:08:49
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- G
I’m new to Ring and really surprised a Night/Sleep Mode, distinct from the Home mode, wasn’t already in existence. Reading over these threads and replies, I think if Ring isn’t going to add Night Mode, they could at least make it easier to access the settings one needs to toggle to manually make a Night Mode. That would probably solve 90% of the headaches. Let us add a Device to the Dashboard screen with setting toggles right there on the Dashboard. My manual “Night Mode” is just switching my kitchen motion detector to Room (rather than Entryway), and setting it to be armed, rather than unarmed. As things currently stand, one has to tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap to just change one device. Those settings are all buried under too many menu levels. Really though, there should be a way to just save multiple configurations for Home mode, and allow you to switch between the configurations. Having to manually change these settings every single night, on individual devices, is not the ideal solution. None of the things I’ve suggested require a new hardware button, or even a new mode. Just let us save Home mode configurations, and make it easy to switch between them.
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03-08-2021 04:59:07
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JHill
To get the night mode functionality that you want: Open the Ring App and go to the Settings area. Select Modes, and Select the Home mode. In the Home mode, open the Devices and enable the sensors you want to instantly send an alarm. Note: by default Motion sensors are not enabled. I want my basement Motion to set off an alarm so I enable it, since there is no glass break for Ring. Then back out of the devices to monitor in Home Mode and set the Delay Entry and Delay Exit times to 0 seconds. That's it. Works like a charm. Hope this helps !
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04-04-2020 10:52:37
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