Ring camera motion alerts #745
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Motion detection is a device-side setting while motion alerts are a client-side setting. Basically, when you disable motion detection, you are changing a setting on the camera, so ring-mqtt can do this as well. When you disable motion alerts, you are changing a setting on your local Ring client which controls whether that client (Android, iOS, Web, etc) generates notifications on that specific client device or not, thus ring-mqtt can't change this setting because it is local to your device. Stated another way, if you have two separate devices with the Ring app installed, one can have motion alerts enabled while the other does not. |
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My Ring doorbell, indoor cam and floodlight camera all have the option to toggle motion alerts. This is distinct from the option to toggle motion detection. Is it possible to add a feature to expose this toggle so that it can be operated in HA in the same way as the motion detection switch?
Although there is a discussion on this topic here I believe it was incorrectly closed as the Ring Modes feature does NOT permit the user to set the motion alerts status. Switching the Ring Mode permits the user to set (i) motion detection, (ii) motion warnings i.e. the device speaks to the 'intruder' and (iii) live view, but it does not enable the user to set motion alerts status i.e. if motion detection is ON, the ability to select whether or not I receive alerts via the Ring app.
Can this request be (re)opened?
I guess for the time being I could (a) switch off all alerts in the Ring app and (ii) try to replicate the Ring app alerts behaviour in HA with a script that sends a phone notification and then using an automation that only triggers the script based on the mode of my HA alarm control panel...and attaching the snapshot to my notification? The downside to this approach is (1) it sounds like a lot of work! and (2) when I click on the HA notification I guess it could take me to the RTSP stream but I find the performance is much worse than the stream in the Ring app.
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