Ring Alarm
Phone notifications when door sensors remain open?
Is there a way to generate notifications when a door sensor: - Remains open \> X minutes - Is still open at a set time (e.g. 9pm). - Is still open when I drive away. In particular I have a detached and attached garage door that I've left open previously and would love to have an active notification system to remind me. And we have indoor cats so I'd use the same for all the other external house doors since they should never be left open more than briefly.
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12-05-2020 10:29:51
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Just switched to this from another service and already missing the service 1. No emails when doors are opened, only push notification 2. No notification when the door is left open, no reminder Much improvement needed
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11-12-2020 01:46:57
THi @Cyberbug. As we value our neighbors' feedback, we've created a [Feature Request board](https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/idb-p/Feature_Request_Board). 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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11-12-2020 09:03:02
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Do you have an Amazon Alexa or Echo? I'm wondering if you couldn't accomplish this using an Alexa routine?
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19-12-2020 04:18:57
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UNo, tried it. We are hoping someone else (Amazon/ Alexa) to do what Ring needs to do? This should be a "must" feature and should not be hard to implement. I asked for this feature 4 years ago. All other security systems offer this "door remained open" feature, except Ring.
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11-06-2021 06:44:21
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You can set up an Alexa routine to alert when the door opens or closes but there isn’t a way to get an alert if the door sensor remains open. This is a huge omission from Ring and it is really disappointing the lack of official response on this feature given the amount of requests it has had.
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08-04-2021 02:42:10
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Hi You can setup 2 routines with Alexa. Routine (1) When the Door is opened: Name: Whatever you want When: Select the device and the trigger you are looking for. For me its the door and the trigger is open. Anytime: for me is Always. You can setup as you like, Add action: I did customized "Set a timer for 10 minutes" From: This device in my case, again you can setup as you need. Save Routine (2) When the Door is Closed: Name: Whatever you want When: Select the device and the trigger you are looking for. For me its the door and the trigger is closed. Anytime: for me is Always. You can setup as you like, Add action: I did customized "cancel timer for 10 minutes" From: This device in my case, again you can setup as you need. Save Only way I found it to work. A little tedious but hey I know. Under your routines menu you can tap the Blue play button to simulate the routine happening. Or physically do the deed.
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20-04-2021 01:21:33
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P@ivan327 Does yours set a timer even when the alexa app isn’t open? Mine doesn’t seem to send the routine unless the app is open when the door is opened. Heeeelllppp please :)
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21-04-2021 07:56:07
- SR
I created this routine and it works. Alexa plays tones when my garage door has been left open too long. but…every time the garage door opens Alexa announces “5 minutes, starting now”. That’s annoying. I already tried enabling brief mode. Does anyone have a solution?
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12-06-2021 07:55:52
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Good question @AdrianGarside! This is not a feature available in the Ring app. Currently, your Sensors can alert when they are opened and when they are closed, as well as the emergency flag sent to the Base Station if your Alarm is armed and the sensor is tripped. The open and closed alerts can also play an audible alert tone from the Base Station and Keypad. Your Ring app device page will also, display the current status of a sensor. As far as a scheduled routine for check in, or open/closed reminders, other neighbors have requested this feature in our Feature Request board. You can vote on it [here](https://community.ring.com/t/open-sensor-notification/10416). :)
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14-05-2020 05:30:16
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