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Alexa Announcement/Routines on Alarm Activated
Hi All, I've just installed the Ring Security System, it's great! I'm especially pleased with the ability to create Alexa Routines i.e. when this happens Alexa says... I have created such routines that 'say x' when Ring is set to Away, Home and Disarmed, and assigned a preferred Alexa device (speaker) to 'announce’… I was also hoping to see an option to create a similar routine for if/when the Alarm is trigged/activated with the ability to ‘announce’ to all Alexa devices i.e. ‘The Security System has been activated… ‘ I live in a 4 story townhouse and the base station is hardly audible from the top floor but every room has an Alexa Device. I have the Ring Doorbell and that’s capable and set to announce to all devices when the button is pressed. Have I missed it in the Alexa/Ring Alarm setup or should this be a ‘New Feature Request’? Thanks for the steer..
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14-02-2020 10:58:31
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An Alexa routine as outlined above (i.e. when alarm is sounding) would be SUPER helpful and amazing. One would imagine it should be very easy to code and add this feature. Don’t know what the delay is....?
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07-04-2021 20:48:49
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It looks like this request has been outstanding for more than a year. To my mind this should have been one of the first and most obvious use cases for this technology. How is this not yet delivered?
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03-06-2021 23:44:22
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RI have unfortunately decided that obvious features aren’t being delivered because there is no incentive for Amazon to do so. We need a night mode. We need much better integration between the camera systems and the alarm system, which are clearly separate systems that have been half-assed joined.We need decent Alexa integration.We need the ability to distinguish between people and things like spiderwebs, hummingbirds, and a windy day.We need our cameras to work LOCALLY without INTERNET. This is my final straw. If there’s a storm, and we lose internet, my cameras aren’t usable from the hallway outside my bedroom door such that I can see if an intruder is coming toward my wife and me? Nice try, Amazon. Finish your product please.Anybody want to buy my system? I’m saving my money to replace it all.
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19-08-2021 14:21:25
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RossDC
Ditto the above. I need an Alexa routine when the alarm is triggered, not just when changing modes. Ie, “do X” when “alarm activated because burglar”. If the feature is there to do stuff when a sensor is triggered (ie, a door opens) then it’s a simple coding addition to add the ability to do the same thing on alarm activation!Thanks.
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20-02-2021 12:27:20
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