Has this issue been address? I followed all the steps and cant get the person detected feature on a Ring Camera to successfully trigger an alexa routine. I have Alexa routines set up so then when the cameras detect a person, it is suppose to trigger associated smart light switches to turn. All the cameras and lights work independently and can be controlled by alexa and the lights are used for other routines connected to Ring (e.g. turn on when there is an associated door sensor opened)....its seems very specific to the person detection feature and not a user or integration issue between Ring/Alexa. For context too, the ring camera does show "person detected" when I view the camera in the ring app and the alexa app routine activity is showing that a "person was detected" routine was triggered, but the actions in the trigger did not actually take place. So the person detection is taking place, but It seems to be an issue where alexa is not actually doing the action but is able to document all the triggers occurring. Given it takes a little time for Ring to actually process the video to actually see if a person was detected vs just generic motion, is that delay in processing time actually cause the alexa to not actually trigger the event? Given there may be a time delay just wondering if that is causing the issue.

Hi @rjkays. Have you checked that the smart light switches are fully compatible with Alexa and support Alexa Routines? I'm not sure which kind you are using. After checking that, make sure the Ring app and the Alexa app are both fully updated. Then I'd suggest deleting the Alexa Routine completely and setting it back up from scratch. Ensure the Routine isn't set up to only work during a certain time frame. If the Routine is still not working properly, please follow up with Amazon Alexa's support to look into this issue further.

Im using all Kasa TP-Link smart switches. In my note I mentioned these switches all work with other aspects of Alexa and other routines I have set up (turn on in response to basic motion detection from my Ring Cameras and when door sensors open from my Ring door sensors)…the issue appears specific to routines that are triggered by the “person detected” Ring camera feature. I have already done all the other troubleshooting of adding/removing skills and routines.

Im happy to follow up with Amazon Alexa support as a next step, but given Ring is owned by Amazon and you are both marketing this integration feature, can you escalate this to the Alexa team internally. Based on this thread as well as this other related one below, it appears to be a bug and not an isolated incident.