Add support to Ring's sensors (door/window sensors and motion sensors)

Feature Requests
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I have a Ring Alarm system with a bunch of door and window sensors, and motion sensors, that I’d love to have access to in Home Assistant. Without having to remove them from the Ring Alarm hub.

Integration: Ring - Home Assistant

I’m currently using a pretty non-ideal workaround: have a child bridge in Homebridge, use Homebridge’s Ring plugin, then connect it to HA as a HomeKit device.

It turns out being able to reuse my alarm sensors is very useful.

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The official HA Ring integration may not get the functionality you want. But this might.

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Thanks I’ll take a look. I do still think the official integration should support it, that Add On installation doesn’t seem trivial.

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Agree but hey, volunteers maintain the code and the mgtt one appears to be getting more attention for now.

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True, and the list of supported devices from ring-mqtt seems very complete.

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If I have only one Ring door/window sensor, how do you recommend adding it to HA?

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It might no be worth the trouble for you, but FWIW I didn’t use ring-mqtt. I ended up having a Homebridge instance running to connect to Ring and then I added Homebridge to HA as a HomeKit device.

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I know this is a bit old, but found this via Google. Long-term I want to move away from Ring, but for now, looking to use it (especially the door and motion sensors). With the solution you’re using, what kind of latency is there? How long does something simple like “turn on this light when sensor detects motion” take to trigger? I have something setup in Alexa like this and the delay is long enough to make it kind of useless…

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Most of the Ring security components (sensors, keypad) adhere to the Z-Wave standard, so you may be able to get rid of your Ring base station and exclude/re-include devices directly to a HA zwavejs-supported controller. I am using several door sensors and the keypad with a Zooz 500-series dongle so everything is fully local and practically instantaneous.

Note anything with a camera will require using the Ring cloud APIs and account login. Also if your sensors are paired to HA instead of Ring, they can no longer be part of the Ring monitoring service.