Ring plugin now support Ring Alarm systems

[dcorsus]

Great work getting this up and running, it’s been on my homeseer wish list for a long, long time to have it play nice with ring.

Just setup the PI today, and hit a bit of an issue. I have two locations in my ring account - my home and my parents house. I have a ring alarm in both properties. I can only see one of these in the PI. Is this something you’d expect to happen? Other devices are fine - i see devices for cameras in both locations for example.

The alarm base station in the second property is currently in ‘mobile backup’ mode, as it’s fallen off the WiFi. Not sure whether that’s contributed to the problem?

I have tested multiple locations ... but .... only by using a camera , I don't have 2 alarm systems, so that might indeed not work. So, if you don't mind, go to settings->debug->capture which will create a big file. Don't post it, but PM it to me so I can have a look at what Ring published to the PI wrt to this second location.

[Nyle]

Great work getting this up and running, it’s been on my homeseer wish list for a long, long time to have it play nice with ring.

Just setup the PI today, and hit a bit of an issue. I have two locations in my ring account - my home and my parents house. I have a ring alarm in both properties. I can only see one of these in the PI. Is this something you’d expect to happen? Other devices are fine - i see devices for cameras in both locations for example.

The alarm base station in the second property is currently in ‘mobile backup’ mode, as it’s fallen off the WiFi. Not sure whether that’s contributed to the problem?

[Taz]

Son of a gun...

It was that simple. Thanks!!!!

[dcorsus]

How can I add my base station back? I accidentaly deleted it in a bulk edit and can't recreate it.

restart PI or click on refresh devices' info

[Taz]

How can I add my base station back? I accidentaly deleted it in a bulk edit and can't recreate it.

[windracer]

Is checking the "Siren State" feature of the Base Station device the only way to detect an alarm event with this plug-in? In Node-RED, the alarm status message contains a state of "burglar-alarm" that I use to trigger alarm-related events (like turning on lights) and set other information (like which sensor was faulted).

I see 1.0.0.10 added the Alarm State feature, thanks! So now I can check for "Burglar Alarm" in my event:

[dcorsus]

(my wife was also frustrated when I was testing the Node-RED flows and I kept purposely setting the siren off )

OK, found the info, now need to figure out what kind of alarmInfo.state there are. I have keypad-medical-alarm burglar-alarm so far, will do some digging to see what other values are of use. Suspect there is also fire and police ...

[windracer]

Hahaha, I get it. The primary reason I went with Node-RED to trigger HS events based on alarm events is because the Alexa skill for Ring also doesn't have an "alarming" state so you can't trigger Alexa routines when the alarm goes off. But with Node-RED I can capture that "burglar-alarm" state from the message payload and then turn on all the lights, flash red LEDs, etc.

Good work so far! I like what I see!

(my wife was also frustrated when I was testing the Node-RED flows and I kept purposely setting the siren off )

[dcorsus]

Is checking the "Siren State" feature of the Base Station device the only way to detect an alarm event with this plug-in? In Node-RED, the alarm status message contains a state of "burglar-alarm" that I use to trigger alarm-related events (like turning on lights) and set other information (like which sensor was faulted).

uhhh, really good question, I've been focusing on getting the arm functions and the bypass functions coded , including showing the alarmed zones , that I have not thought about the info and feature when the alarm triggers. Just wrapped the hub into a bunch of blankets to avoid I go deaf when testing. Stay tuned

[windracer]

Is checking the "Siren State" feature of the Base Station device the only way to detect an alarm event with this plug-in? In Node-RED, the alarm status message contains a state of "burglar-alarm" that I use to trigger alarm-related events (like turning on lights) and set other information (like which sensor was faulted).

[dcorsus]

Ok, I've installed it and now I've got 31 new Ring devices (all alarm-related) in HS4. Pretty cool ... need to start cleaning up/organizing and then do some testing but I can see this completely replacing my Node-RED setup. 👍

The beauty of the alarm devices (as opposed to the camera devices) is that communication between plugin and backend Ring cloud server, is by encrypted permanently on webSocket. Therefore , no polling and nearly instantaneous updates

[windracer]

It cannot mess up your system as it creates its own devices and act like a Ring controller app

Ok, I've installed it and now I've got 31 new Ring devices (all alarm-related) in HS4. Pretty cool ... need to start cleaning up/organizing and then do some testing but I can see this completely replacing my Node-RED setup. 👍

[dcorsus]

Just curious about this PI. I'd like to try it out but don't want to mess up my existing setup. Think it's "safe" to try?

It cannot mess up your system as it creates its own devices and act like a Ring controller app

[windracer]

So I've been using Node-RED to get my Ring Alarm system device status in HS4 for a while. It works pretty well although I did have to manually create a lot of virtual devices (mainly the alarm, doors, and motion sensors ... I didn't bother with all the contact sensors on windows).

Just curious about this PI. I'd like to try it out but don't want to mess up my existing setup. Think it's "safe" to try?

[dcorsus]

Thanks Dirk.

I followed your instructions above (correctly this time) and just updated to ver 1.0.0.9 and all looks good.

Will

Proves that men CAN follow directions