Activate Siren on all Camera’s and Alarm

Hi Chelsea,

Could you please merge this with the main request for this?

https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/Activate-Siren-on-all-Camera-s-and-Alarm/idi-p/26601/page/7#comments

Thanks.

Hi Chelsea,

We have some more threads with this request. Could we please merge with this so we can increase the number of votes.

  1. https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/Camera-sirens-activated-when-alarm-is-sounding/idc-p/60661#M2703
  2. https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/Enable-Cameras-to-act-as-external-siren-for-Alarm/idc-p/60662#M2704
  3. https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/All-sirens-panic-button-app/idc-p/60663#M2705
  4. https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/Need-a-very-loud-outdoor-siren-option-Also-the-ability-to-turn/idc-p/60664#M2706
  5. https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/An-Exterior-Siren-for-Canada-other-than-Dome-Siren-below-32F-0C/idc-p/60665#M2707
  6. https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/Outdoor-and-additional-sirens/idc-p/60666#M2708
  7. https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/Outdoor-siren-strobe-combo/idi-p/34552#feedback-error
  8. https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/Outdoor-siren/idi-p/52914#feedback-error
  9. https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/Outdoor-siren/idi-p/25458#feedback-error

Yes this is a great idea and also it would be nice to increase the volume on external outside cameras to make siren as loud as the alarm base in the home. Maybe WiFi alarm extenders with loud sirens that are tripped when main base alarm is triggered ?

I don’t want to “hijack” the idea of a Stand Alone Alarm as proposed – this is an idea I fully support. However, looking at related threads, there appears to be differing thoughts on what is considered “loud”, “stand alone”, “outdoor”, etc. As a compromise approach, I offered a related hardware/software proposal that might afford Users more customizable options (separate thread):

https://community.ring.com/t5/Feature-Request-Board/Ring-Smart-Plug/idi-p/62672

@Boone @F1N1 As always, thank you both for these callouts! I’ve merged together the feature requests in question to this master request. :smiley_cat:

This is surely the entire point of being able to enhance your ring of security by linking devices together. Ring has the linked devices feature so that devices can work together, but not the ability to link an alarm event to a lights siren. Such an omission is nothing short of astonishing. Come on Ring - get your act together and deliver this simple integration, or explain why you can’t.

I find it funny how Ring even sells a panic button accessory yet the system has no capability to link to exterior cameras. This feature is a must.

@Chelsea_Ring, hope you can provide insight on if this feature will be made possible soon! Please bring it up at your next meeting! Make it happen!

Please enable ring alarm to activate if selected cameras detect motion. I have cameras in my house and don’t want to have a camera and motion sensor in the same room or hallway. As I have cameras using the indoor cameras motion sensor would be a great help

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Anyone else think the camera sirens should also be triggered when the security system has been set off? Its nice to be able to inform the area what’s going on as well.

This feature is a must, not spending another penny on Ring devices until this is delivered. Really disappointed :frowning: Who is the product manager that does not prioritise this? Should be reprimanded.

I imagine many customers simply expect this feature to work without knowing that the feature doesn’t even exist.

I am making it my goal to spread this news on social media to inform users.

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Hi All,

I have bought cameras and the security system and now I realise I cannot activate the sirens of my external cameras with my security system. It doesn’t make sense. One of the main challenges in a security system is to be loud and currently with the sound of the Base Station is not enough.

It should be possible to link the siren of my external cameras to the Base Station. I don’t want to link the light of my external cameras and turn on them if I have the thieves inside, that I need is to be loud as much as possible.

This is a requirement that is asked by all the community and I think it is a simple development.

When you will be able to develop that?

100% agree, the whole point of having an alarm system is for it to trigger a ALARM

I also have multiple cameras. I also have the ring alarm that has no outside siren. I would like to have a setting when the alarm triggers all the camera sirens also.

If Ring can’t at least come up with a recommended 3rd party Z-Wave outside alarm siren, using the camera alarms would at least be something people outside can hear. I can barely hear my base station standing on the back porch when I can see the base station through the windows in the back door. Since the base station can initiate video recording during an entry delay or alarm, and the cameras themselves can turn on the wifi chime when they detect motion, it wouldn’t seem that much of a stretch to provide a command for the base station to tell the camera to play a siren sound, or even send the sound to it similar to talking through the camera speaker if the camera can’t store a sound pattern internally.

An outside siren is definitely the biggest miss of the Ring alarm system.

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I had been wondering the very same thing for quite awhile now. It seems to me that having a “panic button” option that sets off all the cameras alarms at once is an absolute no brainer. Completely surprised and disappointed that this feature doesn’t already exist. Ring has really dropped the ball on such a simple idea that seems to be heavily needed and wanted by their customers. This feature shouldn’t solely be linked to the alarm system either. Just have the cameras alone should allow you to set all of their alarms off at once via the “panic button”.

I don’t get this, I know they have the Dome third party external siren but how hard is it to make a plug in wall outlet loud siren that only uses battery when power goes out. This should be a must and with current technology doesn’t seem that it would be hard to achive. I agree that everything ring makes should go off, make sounds when alarm is triggered, that includes flood lights, security cameras and even smoke detectors. This should at least be an option or toggle switch on each device on the app if someone chooses to have better coverage as far as sound goes.

I’m honestly surprised this even needs to be voted on. This is just common sense Ring. If someone is breaking into my house I want everything with a siren to go off.

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I don’t understand why they don’t have this already. Seems like it wouldn’t be difficult to add. I read that burglers are more worried about outside alarms than indoor, so linking floodlight camera makes sense.

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Is this still not a thing? Come on ring at least give us an explanation as to why? If it’s the noise issue then just limit it to one external siren source, also you could limit the length of time the external siren sounds in case of false alarm and/or battery life??

I have recently brought the alarm base station set from Ring and this has been working fine. I last week purchased two floodlight cameras for front and back garden. Due to them having sirens as well i assumed that this would all sync up with the alarm base station. I.e when the house alarm goes off the sirens from the floodlight cameras would also trigger.

However, this is not the case. Currently if the alarm is triggered the cameras record the event but i think having the sirens triggered as well would be an extra benefit to the whole package. As there is no external siren option with Ring products this could be a quick fix for that issue as the base station isn’t very loud when you are outside the property.

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