I'm experiencing an abundance of motion activity events from many of my cameras that are not reflected in my recorded camera events. I thought perhaps it was seeing the floodlight motion sensor, but I'm also experiencing this on my Indoor Cam that has no lights. I wanted to use the motion events to trigger other lights, but it seems my house would be its own light show during the night.
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I'm seeing the same thing.
Evidently, you and I are the only ones experiencing this. I've also noticed my Amazon Echo Skill/Alexa Integration records a motion event about 1 second before the new native Ring Integration, but then it's taking an additional 5 seconds before the Ring Integration event executes the trigger based on what I'm seeing on the camera. For now, I'm sticking with the convoluted Alexa integration.
Yeah, I would have thought your post in the beta thread would have generated more discussion. I am seeing the activity on my node-red setup because I'm using motion to trigger sprinklers at night to scare off deer and raccoons. Oddly, I'm not seeing it on all of my cams; it's just one of them. In hubitat my logs are going crazy with ring doing some kind of activity about 7 times a second. It was backing up my C-7 pretty bad, so I finally disabled it. I think I'm going to just reactivate a couple of cameras and see what happens next.
Maybe do a hard reboot on the camera(s) in question? If it's just one or two out of all your cams then it may be something particular to them that a restart might help.
The old rule in our house...don't ask Dad for any help w/tech unless everything has been rebooted at least one time. 
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While the old "did you turn it off and back on again" advice is solid, my question is, why is the camera showing so much motion in Hubitat but it doesn't show up in the Ring app.
So i figured it out and it's a pretty silly thing. The one camera I had that was showing lots of motion turned out to have the sensitivity set to max. I set it to about half way on the slider and now I only get motion when there is actually motion. Hope that helps.
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Good catch. I'm sure you gave yourself a good talking to. 
Hmmm...makes me wonder if I can dial down my wife's sensitivity setting.
@DiverRich But that still doesn't track with the fact that the camera isn't recording events on that motion activity. If you're motion sensitivity is set to high, then you want to be recording all those events. I'm glad it's working for you, but still doesn't make sense to me.
lol, I'm with ya, it doesn't make any sense to me either. Not even a little.
I have experienced this as well, particularly with my second generation Ring cameras. I had previously had them set up via an Amazon Echo skill (motion would trigger a virtual switch, which in turn triggered a rule to set a virtual motion sensor to active), but then tried the new direct Hubitat integration.
I believe it is because Hubitat is using the raw motion feed from the cameras, whereas the Echo skill happens after the cloud processing of motion events, which filters out many of the false positives. That is also why the Ring app isn't recording motion for these events.
As a result, I have reverted to the Amazon Echo skill method for many of my Ring cameras.
That's an interesting take. Although there was some initial confusion whether the HE integration was local or cloud based, it seemed to have finally landed on being cloud based, so I would think that it would also rely on the cloud processing for it's motion events. My system is triggered similarly to yours, and I have reverted back to the Amazon Echo integration as well.
My assumption is that the integration going through the cloud doesn't necessarily mean it's allowing for the use of Ring's AI processing that lets it determine what motion is valid. For instance, Ring now sends notifications like "a brown delivery van is driving down the driveway." I suspect that processing is not part of the loop for the Hubitat integration.
