Hi
We have a puppy who we try to get to sleep whilst we’re working, usually successfully - but when someone comes to the house and rings the doorbell, it wakes him and he doesn’t get back to sleep!
We’d like a simple routine or instruction we can give Alexa to snooze the doorbell ring for say an hour, 2 hours etc.
Is there a workaround even if Ring/Amazon haven’t already figured this one out?
Please make the motion alert snooze apply to Alexa notifications. It is beyond annoying to get announcements from Alexa devices when they are not wanted, such as when mowing the lawn, kids playing, etc. This type of request has been made by numerous others and is a popular point of frustration for ring users as reported in online forums. It has been brought up on numerous occasions but not addressed by ring.
This is old- but appears unresolved. I’ll resurrect to share you can create an Alexa routine. I have mine set up to where I say “Alexa, shut up” and she responds, “Fine, I’ll go away for 30 minutes”. The action I set up is in Notifications - Enable do not disturb for 30 minutes. This time can be adjusted to your preference.
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This is probably the closest thing we’ll get. I just created a routine as well. I have Alexa speak to me to let me know do not disturb has been enabled for xxx minutes. Works like a charm.
As far as I can determine only lights can be added to ring groups.
This means I can’t use Alexa to snooze both my front door video doorbell and my driveway floodlight cam with one simple voice command. Telling Alexa to Snooze the “Front Yard” should include all front yard devices that send notifications not just lights.
Would be really helpful every day when I walk outside to work on my yard daily.
Thanks
Is this “issue” still not fixed? You’d think anyone with any sense of intelligence would definiately have this functioning operating correctly. Amazon dropping the ball on this one big time!!! They could have such a great product but their customer service is to simply just say…“Just make a routine blah blah…” That is just plain stupid to have to make a route! Are the developers that dumb or just that lazy??? Obviously they dont use their own products otherwise they would understand this issue and fix immediately!!! VERY DISSAPPOINTED IN RING AND AMAZON!!! It’s 2022 and this…bahaha
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I can say anything that hasn’t already been said many time over. But I will say, like many have already said, this is driving me nuts, crazy, bonkers, and if I had any hair left I would be pulling it out right now!
Please help!
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Very bad response on Amazon’s part. This needs to be fixed.
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How has this not been addressed yet? It has been years since this was raised and still no sign of it being implemented.
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I just chatted with Ring Customer Service and was directed here. I’m actually astonished this hasn’t been addressed in YEARS??? Right now, everytime I want to snooze my exterior devices I have to go into the Ring app and disable them individually (and then remember to turn them all back on!) just to not have Alexa announce every few minutes. Plus this turns off recordings… just really poor integration all around and I’m shocked it’s taking so long to just add a global snooze.
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Just tried to snooze my Ring cameras with Alexa and it doesn’t work…it seems that this has not been fixed…eventhough this has been going on for years…
RIDICULOUS !!! this feature was first requested back in 2019. Over 3 Years ago !!!
I work shifts and there are times where I do not want Alexa telling me that the postman is delivering a letter. I created a schedule in the Ring App that works perfectly, but Alexa still wakes me up telling me there is ‘motion at the front door’.
The level of integration between Ring and Alexa is a DISGRACE !!!
It is simply NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE.
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For now I’m plugging my echo show devices into smart plugs with I can control and set schedules for through other echo devices (I have about 20 other devices) I can set schedules or other routines to power on or power off my echo show devices, so far it works great for me and I’m sure it will for others , that’s the best solution I can come up with until ring can integrate a global snooze feature. For example all my echo show devices are set to power off automatically at 10pm and power back on at 7am… also, during the day, I set a routine where I can just say Alexa snooze for 20, 30, or 1 hour, which in turn powers off all my echo show devices and powers them back on after the indicated time I sent them for. The smart plugs I use are called Meross smart plugs which are Alexa enabled, but I’m sure any smart plug would be suffice as long as they are Alexa compatible… I really hope this helps since it helped me a lot.
For now I’m plugging my echo show devices into smart plugs with I can control and set schedules for through other echo devices (I have about 20 other devices) I can set schedules or other routines to power on or power off my echo show devices, so far it works great for me and I’m sure it will for others , that’s the best solution I can come up with until ring can integrate a global snooze feature. For example all my echo show devices are set to power off automatically at 10pm and power back on at 7am… also, during the day, I set a routine where I can just say Alexa snooze for 20, 30, or 1 hour, which in turn powers off all my echo show devices and powers them back on after the indicated time I sent them for. The smart plugs I use are called Meross smart plugs which are Alexa enabled, but I’m sure any smart plug would be suffice as long as they are Alexa compatible… I really hope this helps since it helped me a lot.
This needs to be fixed. Should be a common sense feature to have that when cameras are snoozed it is for all device notifications including Alexa skills!
FIX THIS RING, PLEASE! Alternative is that we have to turn off the cameras all together……….
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LOL! 4 years running and this most basic and common-sense integration feature is still not available? I understand product design involves ROI considerations, but can an actual Ring employee please give a constructive and helpful update to us regarding this topic?
For others… I set a Do Not Disturb schedule every night for my Echo devices which silences any motion notifications. However, during the day/weekend when I have friends over coming in and out of the house, the echo devices are announcing everything non-stop despite having snoozed in the Ring app.
Complete head-scratcher on why this simple integration has not been implemented. 
like most large businesses the feature board is a fire and forget section of their community.
Would like to see how many community ideas are actually released and when along with how many votes those got to begin with.
To me there is some useless higher up deciding the roadmap and they simply dont care about customers ideas unless they just happen to be fixing something else in that general area.
There is a similar message on the post your link sends us to. It’s a loop of links sending us back to the same posts and requesting that we post on the other one! This is very disrespectful of our time and intelligence.
I am on the fence about whether I switch away from using Amazon owned products like Ring. This is moving me towards leaving because I think you’re so big you just don’t care about me.
I just want Alexa to stop announcing door a certain amount of time when I have guests coming for a party, then resume automatically when it’s over, just like it does in the Ring app.
Please tell me where I should actually make this request so it will be seen.
Hey Ring Staff,
Check out my post on your linked board. Here i am back at the original post after you sent me to another board. I can’t tell which one is the place to tell you I want to snooze Alexa for a party and have it come back on after a few hours.
I am about ready to replce this whole brand over this. Alexa, Amazon and Ring and I’ve been with Amazon since it was just books. I was an early adopter of the Echo and Ring doorbell. Stop this disregard for me and tell me where I can legitimately post my question and find out if anyone is working on it.
Thanks,
Loyal Customer ready to leave
It’s clear that nobody at Ring actually cares about it’s users. The fact that it’s now May 2023 and this is still unresolved tells you all you need to know about this company and it’s parent. Switching to another product.
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