I had a full ring set up. 5 cameras, alarm, sensors, etc. I just set up my HA and the only thing it seems I won’t be able to integrate easily out of all of my smart home devices is the ring stuff. I have MQTT and MQTT-RING installed. I have VLC media player installed. I was able to find the rtsp live stream link for one of my cameras but can’t figure out how to get that stream into VLC, and then how to get VLC player as a card on my dashboard. Should I abandon ring? Is there a better system? I need wifi cameras and something that isn’t a pain in the ass like this to set up. So far I’m loving how easily everything integrated, and I have a ton of smart home stuff from Hue, Yale, Ecobee, Bali Motorized Blinds, etc. All were fairly simple. This Ring crap is ridiculous. Thank you everyone!
If you are using the following:
Then you can get live view of sorts, but it is not designed for this as ring is not designed for constantly live viewing.
Ring enforces a time limit on active live streams and terminates them, typically after approximately 10 minutes, although sometimes significantly less and sometimes a little more. Currently, you’ll need to refresh to manually restart the stream but it is NOT recommended to attempt to stream continuously as Ring cameras just aren’t engineered for this use case and are subject to overheating and even premature failure.
And:
The ring-mqtt project does not turn Ring cameras into 24x7/continuous streaming CCTV cameras. Ring cameras are designed to work with Ring cloud servers for on-demand streaming based on detected events (motion/ding) or short term (10 minute) interactive viewing/recording.
Also worth noting that when live streaming a ring camera all ring motion detecting and notifications are disabled.
Thank you so much.