Ring Security Cameras
Does the "Spotlight Cam Battery" siren feature only turns on manually?
I know you cant disable the siren and the only button for it is in the dashboard. I am not worried about accidentally pressing it. I am worried about when the alarm is in "Home" or "away mode" if motion is detected will the siren go off? or That would just send a notification? During what situations will the siren go off? I still want to get the motion notification but I don't want the siren to go off. Is this siren connected to the Ring Alarm base station? let's say I come home and didn't put the code in time, the siren from the base station will go off. Would this make the siren from the Spotlight to go off? Thank you in advance.
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05-08-2020 05:42:56
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Hi @FunkHQDos. Have you reached out to our support team about this at all? If not, I would definitely recommend contacting our support team so they can look into this further. You can give our support team a call at one of the numbers available [here](https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/213608406). We’re taking additional steps to protect our team and help reduce the spread of COVID-19, so this has resulted in longer than normal wait times. If you are outside of the US, please read our response to COVID-19 [here](https://support.ring.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360041597471) to see how to contact support.
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10-09-2021 07:33:59
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What if I *want* my siren to go off when motion is detected? It would be a great deterrent, my Floodlight Cam Wired Plus is positioned such that the only motion it would detect is unwanted motion. Even a short siren blast would be a deterrent.
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21-11-2022 05:29:41
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Just to update this post. What the Ring person "Boone" above said to this post a while back is no longer true with the new Spotlight Cam versions. They can in fact act as additional sirens to the base station. This is how you configure them to do this: Your Spotlight Cam can act as an additional siren that sounds when your base station alarm is triggered. This is not documented in the installation or user manual for the Spotlight Cam. To activate this feature do the follwoing: From the Ring app: * Tap the three-lined icon in the upper-left hand side of the screen to open the side menu. * Tap **Devices.** * Tap **Alarm Base Station** . * Tap **Base Station.** * Tap **Linked Devices.** * Tap **Alarm Sounding.** Select options listed that you want to activate for your spotlight camera. Right icon listed that looks like this "!" is for making the siren sound when triggered from the base station(will turn red if you enabled this feature).
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23-11-2022 04:20:11
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Hi @Earther. The Ring Spotlight Cam does not have a siren that automatically goes off. As with our other Security Cameras that have sirens, the siren must be manually activated by pressing a button in the app and confirming you wish to sound the siren. This would allow you to deter an unwanted visitor. Again, the siren does not automatically go off with motion detection. If you have a Ring Alarm Security System set up at your home, you can use the [Linked Devices](https://community.ring.com/t/alarm-feature-update-linked-devices-camera-siren/25922) feature to link your Security Camera with the Alarm system. This allows you to choose for the siren on the Camera to go off when the Ring Alarm's siren has been triggered.
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27-06-2023 08:53:26
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FunkHQDos
It’s supposed to only go off manually but I was just contacted by police because ours was going of completely independently. Had to disable power to get it to turn off.
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10-09-2021 06:04:53
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