Ring Configuration

Configuration
1

I cannot seem to get the configuration to work, even though I know the credentials are right and I have tested the python ring API without issues.

Unable to connect to Ring service: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://api.ring.com/clients_api/session

I have tried everything from single quoting, double quoting, and no quoting of the username and password. I cannot seem to make things work.

ring:
  username: "[email protected]"
  password: "randompasswordwithoutsymbols"

Below shows that the credentials work in python.

>>> from ring_doorbell import Ring
>>> myring = Ring('[email protected]', 'randompasswordwithoutsymbols', debug=True)
>>> myring.is_connected
True

Any idea on what I’m doing wrong?

2

First, you need to be on 0.103.5, if you’re not, you should upgrade.
That’ll probably fix the above problem. However, check this thread for the current status:

Basically, there was/is a problem where Ring has started blocking all API access that’s not using their Oauth2 provider. The integration was updated to use it, but there’s currently a side effect of enormous DNS traffic due to a bad token refresh setting. A fix is in the works and coming “soon”.