Alarm Feature Request

Ring Alarm + Ring Devices should have Apple HomeKit support

I’m sure it’s been said many times in separate topics and threads. But there’s no way to limit search within the this feature request thread or sort by kudos/votes so it’s hard to tell where we are on this HomeKit topic. Is it ever coming? Has it been cancelled? Is it on hold? Your customers deserve to know.

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I bought a tilt sensor. Would like to have the app automatically lock doors when arming and at least notify me if my garage tilt sensor detects that my garage is open. We still can’t even use routines for ring in Canada yet, which is disappointing.

When routines are eventually enabled, I’m hoping I can do these kinds of links based on arming state. I.e. when arming, lock doors, notify if garage door is open. Or, when arming away, set ecobee temperature to away setting, etc.

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Could a fob system be added like most other alarm systems?

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I do use Alexa extensively for glass break monitoring and as others have asked I would like to be able to use Alexa routines for Ring Alarm to integrate closer with Alexa and to have Guard also in home mode. An arm/disarm fob would be nice also.

As far as I can tell you have no decent solution for modern double-hung windows where the upper and lower both move .

Most double hung do not have the size (depth on the outer pane assembly) to put a sensor at the intersection of the upper and lower sections. It would also be in view, unlike side-mounting, especially given how large your sensors are.

Using two sensors for the upper and lower is expensive, wasteful (you generally don’t care if the top or bottom is open), and not even possible on a lot of window styles because your sensors are so large as contact sensors.

Alarm systems typically allow for wireless sensors that take up to 3 wired inputs. This is useful because you can place the wireless sensor itself (bulky with battery) off to the side and connect two wired contact sensors per window for upper and lower into what the system sees as a single wireless sensor. Wired contact sensors are tiny and can fit under almost any condition. If you or an installer are ambitious you can generally even run the wires in behind the moulding.

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Most alarm systems provide a wireless contact sensor form factor that allows embedding in doors for a cleaner look.

Typical example - Leviton 56A00

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Requiring an outlet for the keypad is a) horrible for retofits where keypads (at prime locations) are powered over in-wall connections that are located away from outlets and b) unsightly even if you have an outlet nearby (in-wall usb-c aren’t really a thing, and would still need to pop out at an outley nearby).

An option for basic DC input on the keypad along with something similar to your Retrofit station for hard-wired zones that can go where the old alarm panel was, or new central location, with low voltage output to power the keypads. Really your “Retrofit” alarm kit should have this built in already, along with handling the wired sensors.

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I want the ability to have the sensors make the tones if a door or window is opened only when I schedule them too. Like if I want the base station to only make the sound between the hours of 11pm-7am. This way it makes the noise only at night so we won’t be so accustom to hearing the sound. We know if we hear it at night someone is definitely entering when we are in bed.

I want more options for tones with the door/window sensors. More aggressive alert tones instead of happy sounding tones. I have an egress window in my basement with a sensor on it. If someone breaks in through that’s window and my alarm isn’t active which sometimes it’s not set I want an attention grabbing tone to clue me in that the sensor was tripped.

I want longer hour choices to snooze the motion alerts on my cameras longer than 4 hours. 6 and 8 would be nice too.

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I was recently broken into and the perpetrator casually ripped my outdoor camera off the wall and proceeded to go back well out of sight, get his truck and accomplices and come back to break the door glass. Then the interior motion sensor set the alarm off.

https://ring.com/share/6765804914189696434

There was a 5-6 minute space between the camera being destroyed and the glass break (which there are no sensors for). Once the alarm went, Ring contacted me, I contacted the police and they were on scene within 5-7 minutes.

Had the alarm sounded when the device was tampered with they would likely be caught and much less likely to have actually broken in. I know the doorbell has a tamper feature that doesn’t actually do anything except alert you - these should be alarming conditions. OR it should be an option. I cannot think of a scenario where something is tampered with 12’ off the ground that isn’t very suspcious.

The keypad does make a sound telling you that you better enter a code. It plays on every keypad on the system. Check your settings. Plus I believe if the keypad is connected to power on the plug instead of just battery charge it will keep the lights on ask the time.

Silent arming/disarming so you don’t wake people up? Simply arm or disarm from your Ring app. No sound!

Were you not alerted of the motion at the camera.

Then, you could have sounded the siren on the camera & called the cops yourself or put in the distress code on the keypad (if you were at home)

FireMedic111,

I do this everyday on through my app and it echoes throughout the house as the base station says “Disarmed” and then each keypad repeats it a second later…

Do you have the volume turned down all the way or what?

Your contact sensor size is enormous as compared to wireless contact sensors for traditional systems.

Both parts of a normal wireless contact together are about than half the volume of the small half of your sensor.

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Kaadray,

Agreed! They are downright absurd! SimpliSafe’s sensors are tiny and I actually purchased a system over the Ring for the size of the sensors and realized that you don’t receive any remote capabilities if you don’t pay them $25/month. I took the SimpliSafe back and purchased a Ring.

Back to the sensors, the main reason they are so big is that they use a much larger battery than other systems…potentially meaning few battery replacements through the years on “heavy use” doors. Every time you open a door the sensor wakes up and sends its status back to the base station. I have heard complaints on the batteries that are provided, I am new to the system so I can not attest to their longevity.

Being a hardware engineer, I wonder why they need such big batteries…the new Z-Waze chips are designed to draw virtually nothing until there is an event in which they wake and send the command and then they go back to sleep. I have read many negative reviews that spoke of battery usage. Whether this is the battery or shotty programming, IDK…

Overall, I am very impressed with the system and its compatibility but there are some things that need ironing. Hopefully since they are Amazon owned now, they will have some decent engineers around to tweak the system, but that may be a pipedream…

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Yeah, I’d buy the battery argument expect a) even the non-battery side is 3 times the size of the non-battery side of the wireless sensors from traditional systems and b) the wireless sensors from my traditional system have been in place for 6+ years including on our most used doors w/o a battery swap and Ring is bragging about 3 years battery life with these.

First world problems right here. ?

I think the Ring system is useless unless it automatically arms at night and disarms in the morning