Maybe that was the problem - stupid me, I installed the wrong driver I guess. Now it is adding my Camera but it still claims I have Ring Video Doorbell 2 Pro which I'm pretty sure is wrong...
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That is probably the right make, I have one that's 3 years old and it's definitely a Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2.
Hmm, ok. So the next step apparently is to configure how Hubitat refers motion alerts from my devices. Apparently IFTTT is strongly preferred? But IFTTT requires the internet which kinda defeats the point of trying to do this without Alexa.
What's the issue with polling from Hubitat? Does that significantly slow down the network responsiveness or something?
Also, what do I do next after configuring the IFTT Applets? I've followed the directions to a letter and created applets for Ring and for Motion detection.
What I want to do is create a rule that will turn on my front porch lights and foyer lights when ring/motion is detected between sunset and sunrise. Do I make this rule within Hubitat? What setting within the rule would allow me to select the time between sunset and sunrise as the time that this rule would fire?
EDIT: OK, I figured out how to do the above with Simple Rule maker. Wasn't sure how to do it with the other Rule maker. But one thing I can't figure out - for the rule based on the Ring button, what button number corresponds to the doorbell? Do I just put in "1" for that?
Sorry to jump on this thread, but I've been busily reading posts regarding Ring integration as I figure out what I want to do coming off many years of Smartthings and you guys seem to be in the thick of it!
I'm about to purchase HE for my automation needs, but my family really wants a keypad and monitoring ala the ADT ST hub which we most recently had. I've had a Ring doorbell and floodlight cam for 4+ years so am familiar.
My question is: Knowing that my ultimate goal is some level of Ring /HE integration (mainly Zwave/Zigbee/Hue lights triggered from Ring motion and contact sensors) Zwave siren, etc, which should I set up first? Should I buy a Ring alarm kit and get that going and then set up HE? or does it not matter at all? I just want to make this transition as smooth as possible for myself and I'd benefit greatly from others' experience/hindsight. Is there a definitive thread that I've missed that contains a comprehensive list of steps or to I just need to comb through the threads and jump in?
Again, I apologize for hijacking this thread in any way.
Doug
Hi Doug, great question!
The order of purchase makes no difference. I would also recommend, once you have both in place to let them run independently for a little bit as you get use to both systems. Once you understand them well, integrating them will be much easier.
Hubitat has more complexity to it and will most likely require a bit more time to ramp up, but since you have Smart Thing experience, that ramp-up might not be as long as someone coming to the home automation world for the first time.
I have been using both Ring and Hubitat for a while now and have nothing but great things to say about both. They complement each other very well.
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Great to hear Sebastien, as that's exactly what I am planning to do; let them both run by themselves for a period as I get them each running and then figure out how get Ring to pass events to HE. Once I am there, you can bet i'll be reading these threads again looking for tips/answers, etc.
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We will be happy to help if you have questions!
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Here is what I hope will be an easy question - I recently added a new wired Ring Doorbell to my location. However, when I go to discover devices, it only shows my first older device.
How can I get it to discover the newest one?
If you are referring to the latest Ring Doorbell:
I have the same on my account and can confirm it doesn’t get picked-up. Interestingly, I ran the device discovery with all logging and all other cameras came-up in the logs, but not this one.
Exactly. Very strange. No different than the others except wired.
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Hmmm, nothing at all in the logs?
If you look here and scroll down to "doorbells", I wonder if that was identifies itself differently:
And then On lines 1795 and 1820 of the main app if you included those as well and re-ran?
The LPD and JBox all sound new to me.
I suspect they must be identified differently - any ideas how to identify the new terminology? I can add it and test if we can figure that out.
If I recall correctly, when you do a discovery, the logs will indicate the name of the new device and identify it as an unknown device till a driver is created for it.
Luckily, I haven't had to anything new in awhile so I can be wrong on this.
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That’s what I though too, but for some reason, this one doesn’t appear to be in the logs. Though maybe I looked too quickly…? Will check again just in case…
EDIT (fixed device type): Yup, I didn’t pay enough attention. The device is there: doorbell_graham_cracker is the ID for the Ring Doorbell Wireless device.
I also re-checked the device list and the device in question is not in the drop down. So it does detect it, but just doesn’t do anything with it.
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Interesting. Are you sure you don't have a chime AND one of these?
# device model kinds
CHIME_KINDS = ["chime", "chime_v2"]
CHIME_PRO_KINDS = ["chime_pro", "chime_pro_v2"]
DOORBELL_KINDS = ["doorbot", "doorbell", "doorbell_v3", "cocoa_doorbell"]
DOORBELL_2_KINDS = ["doorbell_v4", "doorbell_v5"]
DOORBELL_3_KINDS = ["doorbell_scallop_lite"]
DOORBELL_3_PLUS_KINDS = ["doorbell_scallop"]
DOORBELL_PRO_KINDS = ["lpd_v1", "lpd_v2", "lpd_v4"]
DOORBELL_ELITE_KINDS = ["jbox_v1"]
PEEPHOLE_CAM_KINDS = ["doorbell_portal"]
Would love to submit a few fixes here to @ardichoke if we can narrow down which ones.
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Wow! Good thing we have a holiday today, cause apparently I can’t read!
The device is actually: doorbell_graham_cracker
I’ll fix it in my post above.
So I assume this would be a new “Kind”.
Sort of, in this app we'll want to add two things;
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on line 1795 to this list to make sure we are seeing 'doorbell_graham_cracker' e.g.:
@Field static def RINGABLES = [
"doorbell",
"doorbell_v3",
"doorbell_v4",
"doorbell_v5",
"doorbell_portal",
"doorbell_scallop",
"doorbell_scallop_lite",
"doorbell_graham_cracker",
"cocoa_doorbell",
"lpd_v1",
"lpd_v2",
"jbox_v1"
] -
Around line 1820 we will want to add another entry for this doorbell and make sure it alignes to the "Ring Virtual Camera" driver.
e.g.
"doorbell_graham_cracker": [name: "Ring Video Doorbell Wired", driver: "Ring Virtual Camera", dingable: true],
I'm not sure what the 'name' should be, maybe just "Ring Video Doorbell Wired"?
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Yup! Adding those two lines did the trick!
@cuirbear , see the post above. Adding the two lined as described to the app will render the new Doorbell Wired discoverable. (I didn’t test further than that…)
That sounds good to me!
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That's awesome|!
Now, where do I get the IP address again to add it to a tile?
