Separate settings per Motion Zone including recording and notifications

This surely must be a simple feature to create? It would help me so much and make the the ring devices even smarter, as my neighbours and I share a driveway, so during the day I want that zone turned off otherwise I would get a lot of unwanted motion alerts, but at night, it would be great if the motion zone would authomatically turn on?

This would be great, as I have to modify the zones every evening and morning

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I would like to setup 2 zones: one to alarm and record, and the other to record only. Is this possible?

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This may be new technology for Ring, but the capabilities for zones and zone alerting have been out there for several years. I have had an 8 camera Night Owl system for 6 years with this capability. When we moved 2.5 years ago, I decided to install Ring instead of my other cameras. But, as others have already said, I do not have the zone and alert capabilities for each zone. I am still hopeful that Ring will invest in this capability soon so I can move away from multiple security systems.

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New feature request: like above, it would be nice to have different trigger events for motion zones. If there is motion in Zone 1 -Always record and turn on lights, Zone 2 - Turn on Lights, Zone 3 - Turn on Linked Light Front Door, Zone 4 - Play audio file

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This is greatly needed. Thank you.

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Agreed, in fact Ring could make some more money out of me if it had this feature.

I don’t currently pay to store Record Motion, because what I want to be Alerted about and what I want Recorded are different.

But if I had the ability to customize zones, then I would tell

Zone2 to Record Motion, but not send Motion Alerts and

Default Zone to send Motion Alerts, but not Record Motion, then I would pay the subscription.

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would love to see this feature as well. We have had a number of crime incidents in our area and had to turn off notifications so that we can record motion on the road to help out.

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I found yours and adding my vote. Here’s mine:

https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/Zone-Based-Notifications/idi-p/25562

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I came here to request this exact feature. I want to put 2 zones on my Ring Pro doorbell. One for the road and one for the property. I only want to get notifications for the property zone.

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It would be great to have different motion zones based on schedule. During the day filter sidewalk and street but at night enable it.

I would like to see this feature too. I want any motion on the street to be recorded, but I don’t want to be annoyed by constant alerts.

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Give each Motion Zone it’s own Motion Alert button. That way I can record zones wihtout being alerted every time there is motion in it. It shouldn’t be ‘all zones send motion alerts or no zones do’. I want SOME of my moton zones to send alerts (when somehting is CLOSE to my home) and SOME of my motion zones simply to record areas (like the street) without being alerted. Also - give each Motion Zone its own “People Only Mode” and “Motion Sensitivity.” Each Motion Zone is diffferent, so each one should have it’s own separate settings!

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I joined to add this suggestion but see that it is here already. Say I’m planning on adding a camera to watch the front of the house (driveway, sidewalk, road). It would be nice to set minimal zones for those areas during the day while it is busy. However, during the night (specifically when the neighborhood has been experiencing higher crime rates 3AM - 5 AM) it would be nice to expand those zones to pick up all motion. I know this could probably be done by snoozing motion in the zones, but I’d like to be able to add Day Time zones, Evening zones, and maybe High Alert zones for those times I want to specify. This way the batteries won’t be draining with all day time activity. Once I like the location of the battery powered camera, I may purchase a hard wired camera since I will know what the view looks like already.

This is the feature request that I created this accout for. Please make this happen.

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When multiple zones are setup for motion detection, set schedule to activate/deactivate a specific zone for a period of time. Use case: Schedule activate zone for sidewalk and street area at night so ring doorbell captures a wider area to record suspicious activity at sidewalk and street. Then deactivate zone in morning when high activity is expected. I can currently do this manually each night by setting zone ‘Active’

I think it would be nice if you could set the type of alert and sensitivity you like for whatever times of day you want. I get a lot of alerts during the daytime so I put those alerts on silent and don’t put the sensitivity too high. But at night I like to be aware and awakened if necessary for any activity happening outside so I always switch the alerts to the verbal alert for my floodlight cam and switch the people only function to everything for my doorbell cam.

But that’s a pain to go in and do those changes every night before bed and I don’t always remember. There are certain times of day (mainly middle of night) I want to be made more aware of activity outside the home so it would be convenient if you could customize alerts and cam sensitivities by time of day.

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Agree…I would really like to have this feature!!

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I’d like this too though am concerned with the humans setting on doorbell. I was testing this yesterday. Had zone extended and settings at max plus humans on. Thought great it’s not going off with cars etc. Had ordered a Chinese. Delivery came. Person came and went and nothing. No alert/recording nothing. Have turned humans only off again.

^^^^^