Separate settings per Motion Zone including recording and notifications

We have the ring floodlight cam and have 2 motion zones set up. We want to record motion in any of the 2 zones, but only be alerted when motion is detected in “Zone 1”. Is this possible? If not, please try to make it available soon, it is desperately needed due to recent events in our neighborhood.

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@Ring, you tell people to post to this feature request board, then ignore the requests. How sad.

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I couldn’t agree more. It would be excellent if each camera could have 2 zones, one for capturing video and another for triggering an alert. As it is today, I want to capture all video (as you said, in case there is a car accident or some otherwise benign event) but want to be notified only if someone is actually approaching my house. Absent this feature, users must choose between meaningful notifications and video coverage, that is a bad choice to have to make. I errored on the side of capturing all video, and as a result either disable notifications or ignore them for specific cameras. It sucks.

I am extremely apt to search for alternate options, but have been otherwise pleased with the Ring cameras, but this feature alone is enough to win market share if someone else has it available.

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This goes hand and hand with a feature request titled “Zone Based Notifications”. I recommend you plus up that one also as it has 17 likes already.

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So many people have asked for this, in so many different requests. Hopefully it gets through to the dev team.

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Done! Thanks

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?

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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?

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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 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.