Integrations Feature Request

Just found that my Ring purchased during the Black Friday sale doesn’t integrate very well with Alexa. This is a must have “Feature” and the only reason I went with Ring. Good thing I still have my old doorbell. Going to wait till my last day to send it back and hope this gets added before then.

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Yes Ring. Add automations! I am running all of my smart switches/outlets on Samsung Smartthings to automatically schedule lights to turn on/off. We need Ring to add this capability to have all controls under 1 app.

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The way Rapid Ring app works is really good and fast. Not sure why this isn’t just integrated inside the Ring app.

But same functionality should be made available for Echo Show, with an option to automatically show live view of camera or door bell when motion is detected or button is pressed.

Oh, and HomeKit…

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We’ll never get HomeKit - that’s a fact.

But could we at least have Siri shortcuts to turn on/off Ring Alarm?

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The Alexa voice commands for setting and deactivating the Ring Alarm were introduced this year if that is what you are asking for. this Ring help article explains hot to use the voice commands for Ring Alarm. https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020893671-Arming-and-Disarming-Your-Alarm-with-Alexa Note that disarming the Ring Alarm requires a pass code to work. This is pretty much standard with all alarm systems that have implemented voice commands. The same goes for unlocking a smart door lock or opening a garage door with a smart controller.

Thank you for your answer, but I’m not asking about Alexa commands, which are great for arming the system (Alexa, I’m leaving).

But when I am arriving at home, I wish I could simply say “Siri, turn off alarm”. This would simply launch the Ring App in the background and turn off the alarm.

In order to do this, Siri will require passcode or the corresponding device to be unlocked. I currently have this enabled with my smart lock, which detects me by geofencing and prompts me to unlock the door. I can also issue the Siri command to “open the door” which will do by simply looking at the phone (FaceID enabled).

Since HomeKit will never be implemented, it would be great if we could at least get these shortcut integrations. This is a simple enhancement to the mobile app.

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I would like my Facebook Portal to automatically display either my front door or my back door camera when the doorbell button is pushed.

Thanks,

John

Look up "Project Connected Home over IP Intends to Simplify Development for Device Manufacturers and Increase Compatibility for Consumers ". Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance are supposed to start working to gether to create a standard. It will probably take a while but at least it is a start.

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It’d be great to have a dashboard that shows me every device which has accessed my account, it’s IP, and the last time it accessed it. Not a panacea for security, but would definitely help us find bad actors trying to access our account.

I’d also love to be able to use a Google Auth-compatible app for 2FA instead of SMS.

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integration with nest hub please.

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Integrate the interior camera with the base unit. I.e., I should not have to install a motion detector wherever I have a camera if I want violation of space to sound the alarm. I mean, I mean, how come a camera with built in motion detector can have the base unit send me a notification, but cannot have the base station sound its alarm and contact the monitoring company ??? Further, why can’t the camera trigger turning on a lamp ???

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Concerning doorbell integration with Alexa, I have multiple Echo speaker devices throughout our home, some of them even located in the same room (FireTV Cube and an Echo show for instance). When I enable notifications for a press or motion detection to be broadcast, it comes through on all of my devices simultaneously. I would love to be able to designate the notifications to only go on specified devices or a device group. I happen to have devices tied to my account at different physical locations as well and it’s inconvenient to have them alert as well.

I’ve worked around this a bit by creating routines for each speaker/show device that I want to alert based on the but that reduces some of the feature capability and isn’t as simple as being able to simply select a specific device or device group. This would also be useful for security systems.

  1. Apple Home Kit Integration - its been promised for years. Allowing me to control the alarm through my apple ecosystem is not going to jeopardize Amazon’s grip on everything. I’m still going to pay my yearly subscritpion for everything, I just want a single pane of glass to control everything.
  2. A keypad that doesn’t look like a children’s toy from the 1980s. I want a touch panel (see above request for home kit) that I can use to interact with the alarm.
  3. The ability to change the entry delay tones (the sounds played when a door marked as entry delay). The current tone is obnoxious and doesn’t evoke a sense of urgency to get to the panel and turn it off or therefor, ward off an intruder when a door is breached.
  4. Additional integrations with Apple TV that would bring up the door bell when someone presses the button and allow me to see on my TV who is at the door and interact with the person.
  5. True Multi-factor support vs. SMS. A security company should not be using a known weak method of MFA.

Maybe it’s time to dumb Ring and find the other product

My house was wired with a GE Security system when it was built. I finally migrated over to Ring and I just got the Retrofit connected to all existing sensors. It would be nice to also use the existing Siren (which is flushed against the wall at a central location).

How about the ability for one of the zone on the Retrofit drive an exisiting Siren?

Thank you for considering.

-D

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Hello,

Currently have Alexa routing to announce when front door is open.

The base station is in the attic, central to the house for best wireless coverage. I cannot hear any tone from it.

When I come home to an Armed state, would like Alexa to announce system is Armed (so i know to go Disarm). I just migrated over from a GE Security system which played a tone during entry period so we know/remember to go Disarm.

Thank you for considering.

-D

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I like the idea of the dashboard showing me each device that has been connected. If would be great if that could be expanded to only allow registered devices to connect.
I realize if someone hacked your password they could register their device, but at least there would be a log, and a notification of a new registration.
This would a go a long way towards reducing the hacks that are currently in the press. I too wonder if some of the reports are from a competitor, this is big business, and the news loves to sensationalize . Sort of like reviews, good ones written by employees and bad written by the competition.
I worked for a fortune 500 company in IT security, we would routinely run password crackers against the windows password database and send reports to the users with weak passwords. It was amazing how many people used very simple passwords, especially the executives.

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Marley thanks for creating this post!

I want to setup audible alerts in my smarthome and I am using ring and smartthings. I have ring already integrated to smartthings which works beutifully. What just hit me was that it would be fantastic if the ring chimes (I have a few already) could also be integrated into the smartthings setup!

If you could use them as an audible alarm for any event in smartthings this would be incredibly powerful!

At the moment there are very few alarm like devices for smartthings. I think this would really add value to the chimes and be an extra reason why people might want to invest in them if they knew they could get all this extra benefit out of them.

August Smart Lock integration!

August Smart Lock Pro in particular. The August locks are the only practical solution for smart security in apartments, as they do not require changing the entire lockset (and the landlord’s key).

If a formal integration isn’t going to be built, at least fix the Z-Wave pairing - which doesn’t seem to work right.

@Jaegermeiste wrote:

August Smart Lock integration!

August Smart Lock Pro in particular. The August locks are the only practical solution for smart security in apartments, as they do not require changing the entire lockset (and the landlord’s key).

If a formal integration isn’t going to be built, at least fix the Z-Wave pairing - which doesn’t seem to work right.

I think I now know why this hasn’t happened and may not. The new August locks coming out in a few months will be almost half their size, no hub needed and will not use Z wave at all… Hopefully, they will make it work someway, but Z wave won’t be one.