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Ring Doorbell Plugin

Posted: Thursday 26 September 2019 0:04
by sach
Recently I was a bit bored so decided to check out home assistant to see how it compared to Domoticz.
Although I much prefer Domoticz, I found the Ring doorbell integration extremely useful for using the motion sensors to trigger lights and being able to toggle the floodlights on and off via a switch. So, I was thinking would any dev out there with some time on their hand like to take up the challenge of creating a plugin for Domoticz?
I wish I had the ability to do this but I have no idea where to start. I found this though which may be of use?
https://pypi.org/project/ring-doorbell/

Re: Ring Doorbell Plugin

Posted: Thursday 26 September 2019 9:20
by leecollings
I believe there are quite a few topics regarding the Ring Doorbell on this forum. It has been the subject of many discussions!

As far as I know, I don't think anyone has of yet been able to integrate Ring devices into Domoticz to be used as camera feeds, and switches etc. Not that I've seen anyway.

I'm interested in this, as I have a floodlight cam as my front door camera and light, so if I could grab the camera feed, and be able to control the siren and lights using Domoticz, I would love that.

But like I said, I don't think there's anything currently built, or likely to be built in the foreseeable future (because of the authentication needed) and due to the fact that Ring doesn't publically provide an API or any documentation.

Re: Ring Doorbell Plugin

Posted: Thursday 26 September 2019 9:42
by sach
I understand, but other HA systems have managed it including Home Assistant. Not live view, but you can retrieve the last recording at least, as well as display battery and WiFi information. Most importantly the motion sensor is available and the light can be toggled.
As far as I can tell, they use the same API as the one I linked, or at least something very similar.