Ring Alarm / home security system

adamfox · January 6, 2019, 4:46am

Looks like someone was able to integrate this using MQTT. Only just set it up myself but seems to be working well.

acolytec3/ring-alarm-HA-plugin/blob/master/README.md

# This repository is deprecated and no longer maintained.  Please look [here](https://github.com/tsightler/ring-alarm-mqtt) for an equivalent, even better implementation.

Ring Alarm MQTT Alarm Panel Home Assistant Integration
=====================
This package is based on Dav Glass' [doorbot](https://github.com/davglass/doorbot) package, Homespun's ring-alarm fork (https://github.com/homespun/ring-alarm), various PRs from Joey Berkovitz (https://github.com/joeyberkovitz) and adapted to work with Home Assistant

This code is mostly derivative of the aforementioned repos.  I just added some extras around MQTT discovery with HA since I'm too much of a novice to rewrite this as a true HA plugin.

Installation/Usage
------------

* Clone this github
* npm install mqtt async ring-alarm socket.io-client

If not using autodiscovery, follow the next steps, otherwise skip to next section.
* npm install js-yaml
* Configure the Ring credentials in the yamlGenerator.sh
```
chmod a+x yamlGenerator.sh
./yamlGenerator.sh

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motoolfan · January 7, 2019, 1:59am

Great news, now just need to wait for Hassio support.

dambrosioj · January 25, 2019, 7:51pm

Anyone have any luck with Hassio yet?

DKrics · January 25, 2019, 8:40pm

check out this thread:

dambrosioj · January 25, 2019, 8:52pm

Yes I have, even the developer states in that thread he is not sure how to make it work with Hassio

Extarys · April 1, 2019, 1:04pm

I would love to use the keypad and the panic button for example without their hub, as all products are Z-Wave compatible.

https://products.z-wavealliance.org/products/2668

shanem · September 3, 2019, 5:08pm

plus any zwave contact sensors work with the ring alarm

onlize · January 13, 2020, 9:28pm

How do you set Ring devices in the mode where they can be added to HA? Usually after your Z-wave controller is set to include devices, you have to do something on the actual Z-Wave device. Anyone tried it?

cerebrate · January 15, 2020, 6:51pm

I also would very much like to see this.

In the meantime, I’m working around using the Ring Alarm sensors by using Ring’s Alexa skill, which lets Alexa routines be set up responding to those sensors, and then setting up routines to toggle input_booleans in HA when the Ring sensors trigger.

onlize · January 16, 2020, 1:59pm

Good idea, can you share how you did it? Also, do you have anything for the keypad?

gdreelin · January 17, 2020, 9:34pm

With Ring adding the 2FA I hope with the current Ring integration that the Alarm system and smart lights get added into the mix.

cerebrate · January 18, 2020, 5:40pm

Sure. I’ve got to warn you, though - it’s a real kluge. (And, sadly, doesn’t have anything for the keypad.)

I’m actually not using it for my Ring Alarm sensors any more (I’ve discovered https://github.com/rs1932/ring-alarm-hassio-addon , which covers that and more, like alarm arm/disarm), but I’m still using it for my Yale smart locks via Alexa, and it’s exactly the same technique.

First up, for this, you need the Alexa Smart Home Skill integration set up and working already. The same technique should also work using the Home Assistant Cloud, but I haven’t got that myself.

Then, set up input_booleans to represent your various sensors, etc., and publish them in your smart home skill, thus:

### Door locks

# Receivers
input_boolean:
  front_door_lock:
    name: Front Door Lock
  side_door_lock:
    name: Side Door Lock
  back_door_lock:
    name: Back Door Lock

# Alexa
alexa:
  smart_home:
    filter:
      include_entities:
        - input_boolean.front_door_lock
        - input_boolean.side_door_lock
        - input_boolean.back_door_lock

  entity_config:
    input_boolean.front_door_lock:
      name: 📜 Front Door Lock
    input_boolean.side_door_lock:
      name: 📜 Side Door Lock
    input_boolean.back_door_lock:
      name: 📜 Back Door Lock

I use the emoji in the names of the devices for Alexa to indicate that they’re intended for use in the automation, and shouldn’t be used manually. Conveniently, it also ensures that all the automation-only devices sort at the end of the list, out of the way. (If the emoji doesn’t come through when you look at the devices in the Alexa app, you can always edit them back in, there.)

So you should now have these:

Then, you need to set up routines to copy the state from the sensor (in my case, the door lock) to the input_boolean. This requires two routines per device, one for locked->on and one for unlocked->off. Which should look like this:

And there you go!

As I said, it’s a bit of a kluge, but it does work. I use a Node-RED flow to “launder” the input_booleans into binary_sensors, but that’s not strictly necessary for anything but the sake of pedantry.

onlize · January 18, 2020, 10:34pm

Got it, thank you.

chansearrington · January 21, 2020, 1:23am

Just a heads up to anyone interested…

I got the Ring Hub and added it plus a ton of Ring security z-wave devices to home assistant (1x Hub, 2x KeyPads, 3x Retro Fit Kits, 3x Door/Window Sensors, 4x motion sensors) only to discover that the Ring Z-wave devices are NOT currently supported in Home Assistant because they’re not currently listed in OpenZWave.

(If anyone is interested I kept all of the z-wave ring device information so someone can add it to open zwave but this process is way too intimidating for me.)

Also, the Ring Hub currently supports joining an existing Z-wave Network (WOOHOO!!!), but currently it’s broken on their software side. When joining your existing Zwave network the hub has the ability to scan the network and detect/integrate all the devices on the Zwave network, but it doesn’t look like Ring has implemented this feature yet. (Harmony Hub with Extender does this well) So right now they hub does nothing when connected to an existing network and basically becomes worthless.

Sooooo… I expect once they get this worked out everything will be great! but until then, don’t add your Ring security Device to Zwave. 1. They’re not currently supported 2. you won’t be able to leverage anything in the Ring app right now which means you can’t use the service either.

wap88 · April 22, 2020, 1:42am

Hi guys! Any updates on this?

I’m planning to add ring security system plus camera and sensor at my new house and hoping to integrate those sensors and cameras and security panel into HA

chansearrington · May 20, 2020, 2:28pm

There’s a mqtt add-on that gets this working. But I still don’t see Ring Zwave devices supported in OpenZwave

jscolp · December 11, 2020, 8:43pm

Hi everyone, I ignorantly went down this route with ozw due to my desire to add keypads into my home for a diy alarm system. Disclaimer I am a general idiot with minimal skill, but maybe someone can champion this going forward

OZW does not implement the entry control class yet. This obviously affects compatibility in zwave2mqtt and the hass openzwave implementation. Latest I could find is here Ring Keypad - Zwave secure inclusion successful - unknown in OZW (google.com)
node-zwave-js does not implement the entry control class yet either [Tracking] Implementation status of Command Classes · Issue #6 · zwave-js/node-zwave-js (github.com)
2a. If you want to see keypads supported by node-zwave-js please vote here Command Class Wishlist · Issue #729 · zwave-js/node-zwave-js (github.com)
If you would like to see my keypad-v2 config file that obviously doesnt work, due to above limitations then find it here jtscott/open-zwave (github.com)

I am not the right person to be writing code and contributing to either of these lovely projects, but for now I will just setup a ring hub because the hardware is very nice. Hopefully in the future I can dump the hub and bring the devices over to my greater z-wave network but for now that is the only solution I can see.

I would be down to support a bounty for a worthy contributor though!