Only way to get decent all around integration is to AVOID Ring altogether. There are several companies that make devices that do or can be made to function I’m nearly identical fashion to EVERY device and feature Ring has. You can even mix and match, using any of the open or common standards, like Zigbee or Z-Wave+. Further, you can do it without worrying about who at Amazon may be spying or peeping in on you and loved ones. When Ring’s own engineers started publicly denouncing the service, one going as far as saying it should be totally mothballed for good, you know nothing good is going to come of things. Amazon hasn’t even integrated Blink, another Amazon owned brand with Ring & I for one thought Blink superior, better refinement of motion zones, faster video upon receipt of notification, and less conspicuous. No, get yourself a USB SSD or HDD and ZW+ cameras or CCTV with ZW base and you don’t have to worry, or pay for storage that may or may not be secure. You also will have choices, on sensors and everything else. Even if there is something that isn’t 100% compatible itself, you can use Wink, Smartthings and a half dozen plus other hubs along with SC to add function to external devices like Echo Plus or Google Home via custom scenes and routines that actually work. Amazon, Google & Apple all talk about common device language, but they only really mean that for third party devices. They don’t want consumers to have options, that would drive down profit for Google and for Amazon, who maybe makes less on Ring vs Nest, they want to make it up by monitoring and selling you replacement AA batteries as you churn through them with 50 daily false notifications.
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