Security Cams Feature Request

I totally agree. It’s a pain to have to turn on indoor cameras every time we leave the house and set the alarm.

Just want to add my support to this suggestion:

PLEASE add the ability to arm/disarm indoor cameras along with the security system. It’s a pain to have to do it manually, and I’m guessing more than a few customers don’t want their indoor cameras recording them when they’re home.

Thank you!

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There is a mode setting coming soon that will allow the settings for cameras for each mode.

I have a Ring Video Doorbell and three Stick Up Cameras (battery version) that I’ve now used for several months… I understand that you can already control the “MOTION ALERTS” based on a pre-determined schedule set under Motion Settings > Advanced Settings > Motion Schedule button. However, I would like to request a similar feature allowing the Stick Up Camera’s “RECORD MOTION” to be enabled / disabled (in other words, power them up / down to preserve battery life) on a pre-determined schedule as well. Also, it is currently awkward to have to cycle through the cameras one-at-a-time to power them up or down, or otherwise change any settings so allowing the cameras to be grouped into one or more groups would be extremely valuable as well. For example, being able to control “RECORD MOTION” for multiple cameras with a single click, as well as doing so per a schedule as described above would be most helpful. Thanks for your consideration!

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This is exactly what I was talking about. This one feature where you can set a schedule NOT to record. I know there is a motion schedule, but it merely silences alerts. Most people are on a schedule where they go to work Monday-Friday. This is where the feature to disable recording via a schedule would come in handy.

I have 3 floodlights and a Doorbell Pro. I was surpised to find that when I snooze all alarms it only snoozes the alarm for the app on my phone. My wife and 2 daughters have the app on their phones as well. If a camera is set for snooze there should be an option to snooze it on all devices. If I am working in the yard I should be able to snooze all cameras for 2 hours and that shut down notifications for all devices including Alexa.

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Request the Ring doorbell cam and security cams ignore small animals. Besides my cats and neighbors’ dogs the doorbell picks up squirrels and snakes. It would be a lot less busy if the outside cameras could/would ignore small animals like my inside cameras do. Thanks!

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I hope they DON’T change the fact the cameras record small critters. That is one of the reasons I got the cameras for around the outside of my house. If someone doesn’t want the cameras recording small critters, change the sensitivity. If that doesn’t work, then maybe Ring can include a different setting that is for people only. Then those who want to record small critters can, and those who don’t can as well.

There IS a people only setting. problem is it doesn’t work at night. So if I were to have my phone set to alert me at night, I would be woken up a LOT. Mine has picked up blowing rain/stuff, a neighbors cat, my wife’s van pulling in, all while on “people only”. It works during the day fairly well.

I wish people would contain their cats. I don’t have any animals, I shouldn’t have to deal with the animals of others on my property. Should be illegal.

Will Ring come out with a garage door controller with a camera, similar to Momentum’s Niro universal WiFi garage door system? I find myself sometimes questioning if I closed my garage door, which I did forget to do a couple of times… It would be great if I could verify with camera and remotely close the garage door, if it was open. Plus, use the camera as a security camera, with motion detection, if someone entered the garage…

Integrate it with a garage door opener, similar to Momentum’s Niro Universal WiFi garage door system. I have accidentally left my garage door open a couple of times. I can put an indoor Ring camera in the garage. But if I found that the garage was open, I would have to drive home to close it. If I could remotely close the garage door via the Ring app, that would be awesome! Plus, still have the camera as a motion detection device for the garage, to see who is coming and going from the garage…

I’d like the ability to view my ring camera LIVE feeds (not recordings) from the website, rather than from my phone app. This way I can peep in on my cameras from a computer, without having to use cell phone data to view the live feed. An ability to share the live feed via a link would also be nice, so that I could share the LIVE feed with family or friends.

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Hello,

I love my Ring Cameras and have recently began going ‘smart’ with my home. I do not have a Ring security system as it is not currently feasable financially. I noticed that through Alexa Guard, you can arm/disarm/change the mode of your ring security system. I would love to see the same capabilities with the ring camera modes.

  1. Wired floodlight cameras need to be able to set privacy zones. The peephole camera has this, seems like an easy firmware fix.

  2. Ability to turn motion sensing completely off - not just the alerts, make it so that I can effectively turn the lights off so that motion will not trigger them.

There should be sensitivity settings to allow small creatures, no small creatures(human only), anything in range. That is what my internal cameras have so my cats do not set them off.

Timestamp videos AND name the videos with the date / time of the video and name of the camera when you download them from the web interface

Also would be handy to have a bulk download option to be able to download several videos at once

The option for longer recordings would be amazing

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Different thresholds for alerts vs recordings

I would like to be able to record all motion at my camera, but I would like to be able to set a different motion zone or sensitivity settings for alerts

i.e. I don’t want to get a notification every time a squirrel or leaf moves by my camera–I do want to record those videos in case they have something valuable… but I want notifications when someone walks by my cameras

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I understand Ring is offering an alarm plan for business, but I think you should also have a Camera only plan:

  • you could charge for longer term storage, 60 days isn’t enough for business retention imo. Or you could just charge in gig storage tiers. Even if after x days it was retained offline, as long as there was an online way to request that it be retreived (with a delay) from offline storage.
  • Provide Business use cameras with an “All” motion triggered recording as an option, rather than the “frequent, standard, light” frequency settings of the home models.
  • I’d like a text/email alert for first motion detected after x number of hours, time or similar logic. Main goal would be to get one email when an employee walks in to start the day. May want to add no motion detected after x number of minutes/hours while you’re at it. :wink:

Would really like to have some business looking ceiling mount dome “covered” cameras.

  • Seems like the new mini cam or doorbell tech could be engineered to a dome model.
  • Would like a wider field of view if possible (even if it resulted in the fish eyed effect)
  • Less important, but it would also be nice if they were battery powered (with optional power cord) like the Stick Up cameras.

Thanks!

@YK2000 wrote:

Hello,

I would like a feature to control multiple motion zones independently.

Example:

Motion Zone 1 set to record motion (but not turn on lights or send alerts).

Motion Zone 2 set to record, turn on lights and send alerts.

Motion Zone 3 record, turn on lights, send alerts, sound alarm.

Thank you.

Agreed.
In addition to those featurs listed I would like to be able to set the motion sensitivity independantly for each zone.

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