ok thank you
I sent my T-Mobile home internet back because I could not forward ports. Then I found ZeroTier. There is an addon for HA and an app for my Samsung phone.Works great and free…
I do not think of it as a VPN to my network, But a direct IPv6 connection from my phone to my HA instance.
Alas, now T-Mobile says they have reached capacity in my area and will not sell me a device now.
In general the best solution is to use automatic user/password detection, at least assuming you are using the addon (automatic username/password detection only works for the addon). Unfortunately, recently there has been some strange issue where sometimes autodetection doesn’t work (also reported for other addons that use auto detect like zigbee2mqtt).
So far it remains completely reliable for me so I’m not really 100% sure why this is happening, but I think the issue is that sometimes the ring-mqtt addon starts too early, before the MQTT service account has been advertised. I’m suspicious this may have been caused by the move to s6-overlay v3, which appears to startup much more quickly. I’m thinking I may just add a few seconds of delay before calling the automatic username/password detection.
That being said, the workaround for this should be to just restart the ring-mqtt addon and see if it reconnects. If it doesn’t then it’s something else that is the problem. You can always manually create a home assistant user for MQTT and then manually define that in the MQTT URL.
I have restart the addon " Ring-MQTT with Video Streaming".
After this, I dont´t get an error in the addon logs.
I have this logs:
device: {
ids: [ '343ea4667fc6' ],
name: 'Gang',
mf: 'Ring',
mdl: 'Stick Up Cam'
}
}
2022-09-26T15:47:26.821Z ring-disc HASS config topic: homeassistant/sensor/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/343ea4667fc6_info/config
2022-09-26T15:47:26.822Z ring-disc {
name: 'Gang Info',
unique_id: '343ea4667fc6_info',
state_topic: 'ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/info/state',
device_class: 'timestamp',
value_template: '{{ value_json["lastUpdate"] | default("") }}',
json_attributes_topic: 'ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/info/state',
icon: 'mdi:information-outline',
availability_topic: 'ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/status',
payload_available: 'online',
payload_not_available: 'offline',
device: {
ids: [ '343ea4667fc6' ],
name: 'Gang',
mf: 'Ring',
mdl: 'Stick Up Cam'
}
}
2022-09-26T15:47:26.822Z ring-disc HASS config topic: homeassistant/sensor/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/343ea4667fc6_wireless/config
2022-09-26T15:47:26.823Z ring-disc {
name: 'Gang Wireless',
unique_id: '343ea4667fc6_wireless',
state_topic: 'ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/info/state',
device_class: 'signal_strength',
unit_of_measurement: 'dBm',
value_template: '{{ value_json["wirelessSignal"] | default("") }}',
json_attributes_topic: 'ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/wireless/attributes',
availability_topic: 'ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/status',
payload_available: 'online',
payload_not_available: 'offline',
device: {
ids: [ '343ea4667fc6' ],
name: 'Gang',
mf: 'Ring',
mdl: 'Stick Up Cam'
}
}
2022-09-26T15:47:26.824Z ring-disc HASS config topic: homeassistant/sensor/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/343ea4667fc6_battery/config
2022-09-26T15:47:26.824Z ring-disc {
name: 'Gang Battery',
unique_id: '343ea4667fc6_battery',
state_topic: 'ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/info/state',
device_class: 'battery',
unit_of_measurement: '%',
state_class: 'measurement',
value_template: '{{ value_json["batteryLevel"] | default("") }}',
json_attributes_topic: 'ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/battery/attributes',
availability_topic: 'ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/status',
payload_available: 'online',
payload_not_available: 'offline',
device: {
ids: [ '343ea4667fc6' ],
name: 'Gang',
mf: 'Ring',
mdl: 'Stick Up Cam'
}
}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.827Z ring-mqtt [Home Alarm] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/865a9968-1259-47f6-8382-0fe3f3a5eb04/alarm/state disarmed
2022-09-26T15:47:30.828Z ring-mqtt [Home Alarm] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/865a9968-1259-47f6-8382-0fe3f3a5eb04/siren/state OFF
2022-09-26T15:47:30.829Z ring-mqtt [Home Alarm] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/865a9968-1259-47f6-8382-0fe3f3a5eb04/police/state OFF
2022-09-26T15:47:30.830Z ring-mqtt [Home Alarm] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/865a9968-1259-47f6-8382-0fe3f3a5eb04/fire/state OFF
2022-09-26T15:47:30.831Z ring-attr [Home Alarm] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/865a9968-1259-47f6-8382-0fe3f3a5eb04/info/state {"alarmState":"all-clear","commStatus":"ok","lastCommTime":"2022-09-26T04:38:59Z","lastUpdate":"2022-09-26T04:38:59Z","tamperStatus":"ok"}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.833Z ring-mqtt [Home Base Station] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/0a205983-e974-46b6-b41b-9aa5c0909324/volume/state 0
2022-09-26T15:47:30.834Z ring-attr [Home Base Station] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/0a205983-e974-46b6-b41b-9aa5c0909324/info/state {"acStatus":"ok","batteryStatus":"charged","brightness":0.06439389,"commStatus":"ok","lastCommTime":"2022-09-26T15:44:51Z","lastUpdate":"2022-09-26T15:44:51Z","serialNumber":"BHBE22025PB002967","tamperStatus":"ok","volume":0}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.836Z ring-mqtt [Haustür] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/2cd05f28-12b0-446f-a2a4-2915e9b388b5/contact/state OFF
2022-09-26T15:47:30.836Z ring-mqtt [Haustür] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/2cd05f28-12b0-446f-a2a4-2915e9b388b5/bypass_mode/state Never
2022-09-26T15:47:30.837Z ring-attr [Haustür] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/2cd05f28-12b0-446f-a2a4-2915e9b388b5/info/state {"batteryLevel":100,"batteryStatus":"full","commStatus":"ok","firmwareStatus":"up-to-date","lastCommTime":"2022-09-26T15:27:08Z","lastUpdate":"2022-09-26T15:27:08Z","linkQuality":"ok","serialNumber":"BHDE21950EL002502","tamperStatus":"ok"}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.838Z ring-attr [Haustür] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/2cd05f28-12b0-446f-a2a4-2915e9b388b5/battery/attributes {"batteryLevel":100,"batteryStatus":"full"}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.840Z ring-mqtt [Keypad OG] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/70e3a284-075e-41c6-9ddc-e7202abc9d0b/volume/state 3
2022-09-26T15:47:30.841Z ring-attr [Keypad OG] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/70e3a284-075e-41c6-9ddc-e7202abc9d0b/info/state {"acStatus":"error","batteryLevel":40,"batteryStatus":"ok","brightness":0.09015149,"chirps":"enabled","commStatus":"ok","firmwareStatus":"up-to-date","lastCommTime":"2022-09-26T15:40:48Z","lastUpdate":"2022-09-26T15:40:48Z","linkQuality":"ok","powerSave":"off","serialNumber":"BHKE22016LD005735","tamperStatus":"ok","volume":0.03}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.842Z ring-attr [Keypad OG] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/70e3a284-075e-41c6-9ddc-e7202abc9d0b/battery/attributes {"batteryLevel":40,"batteryStatus":"ok"}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.843Z ring-mqtt [Bewegunsmelder] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/220e3e2f-bd34-4573-94bd-7aa894f9091c/motion/state OFF
2022-09-26T15:47:30.843Z ring-mqtt [Bewegunsmelder] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/220e3e2f-bd34-4573-94bd-7aa894f9091c/bypass_mode/state Never
2022-09-26T15:47:30.844Z ring-attr [Bewegunsmelder] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/220e3e2f-bd34-4573-94bd-7aa894f9091c/info/state {"batteryLevel":100,"batteryStatus":"full","commStatus":"ok","firmwareStatus":"up-to-date","lastCommTime":"2022-09-26T15:45:58Z","lastUpdate":"2022-09-26T15:45:58Z","linkQuality":"ok","serialNumber":"BHME22012EL002514","tamperStatus":"ok"}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.844Z ring-attr [Bewegunsmelder] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/220e3e2f-bd34-4573-94bd-7aa894f9091c/battery/attributes {"batteryLevel":100,"batteryStatus":"full"}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.846Z ring-attr [Home Range Extender] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/32732ffe-5b89-48c5-9931-2a6ce30db593/info/state {"acStatus":"ok","batteryLevel":100,"batteryStatus":"charged","commStatus":"ok","firmwareStatus":"up-to-date","lastCommTime":"2022-09-26T15:32:52Z","lastUpdate":"2022-09-26T15:32:52Z","linkQuality":"ok","serialNumber":"BHRE22016LD007108","tamperStatus":"ok"}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.846Z ring-attr [Home Range Extender] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/32732ffe-5b89-48c5-9931-2a6ce30db593/battery/attributes {"batteryLevel":100,"batteryStatus":"charged"}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.847Z ring-mqtt [Keypad EG] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/7749377a-14ba-4bbf-a5b8-2088b135cfae/volume/state 50
2022-09-26T15:47:30.848Z ring-attr [Keypad EG] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/7749377a-14ba-4bbf-a5b8-2088b135cfae/info/state {"acStatus":"error","batteryLevel":73,"batteryStatus":"ok","brightness":0.1022727,"chirps":"enabled","commStatus":"ok","firmwareStatus":"up-to-date","lastCommTime":"2022-09-26T15:41:32Z","lastUpdate":"2022-09-26T15:41:32Z","linkQuality":"ok","powerSave":"off","serialNumber":"BHKE21942LD007515","tamperStatus":"ok","volume":0.5}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.849Z ring-attr [Keypad EG] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/alarm/7749377a-14ba-4bbf-a5b8-2088b135cfae/battery/attributes {"batteryLevel":73,"batteryStatus":"ok"}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.850Z ring-mqtt [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/siren/state OFF
2022-09-26T15:47:30.850Z ring-attr [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/motion/attributes {"lastMotion":0,"lastMotionTime":"","personDetected":false,"motionDetectionEnabled":false}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.851Z ring-mqtt [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/stream/state OFF
2022-09-26T15:47:30.851Z ring-attr [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/stream/attributes {"status":"inactive"}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.852Z ring-mqtt [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/motion/state OFF
2022-09-26T15:47:30.852Z ring-attr [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/motion/attributes {"lastMotion":0,"lastMotionTime":"","personDetected":false,"motionDetectionEnabled":false}
2022-09-26T15:47:30.853Z ring-mqtt [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/snapshot_mode/state Auto
2022-09-26T15:47:30.853Z ring-mqtt [Gang] Snapshots are unavailable, check if motion capture is disabled manually or via modes settings
2022-09-26T15:47:30.853Z ring-mqtt [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/snapshot_interval/state 600
2022-09-26T15:47:31.265Z ring-attr [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/info/state {"batteryLevel":"67","firmwareStatus":"Up to Date","lastUpdate":"2022-09-26T10:53:04Z","wirelessNetwork":"archery","wirelessSignal":-65,"stream_Source":"rtsp://03cabcc9-ring-mqtt:8554/343ea4667fc6_live","still_Image_URL":"https://homeassistant:8123{{ states.camera.gang_snapshot.attributes.entity_picture }}"}
2022-09-26T15:47:31.266Z ring-attr [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/wireless/attributes {"wirelessNetwork":"archery","wirelessSignal":-65}
2022-09-26T15:47:31.267Z ring-attr [Gang] ring/8edc0d96-e1fd-4090-ae5a-823aaef19d31/camera/343ea4667fc6/battery/attributes {"batteryLevel":"67"}
But even after that, my Ring Alarm has the status “unavailable”
Do you have another idea?
No other ideas really, as that’s a fully functional ring-mqtt. My guess is that, for whatever reason, the Home Assistant side of the MQTT integration is not working, so you could try restarting HA or reconfiguring the HA Mosquitto integration. But, realistically, once ring-mqtt is connected to the broker and sending data the problem pretty much has to be somewhere else and that’s somewhat off-topic for this thread. Good luck.
Ok I’ll keep trying in this post:
I really hope it works again soon.
I am having this same problem. I cannot find anything that makes sense right now. Mosquito is saying it it getting null user and password. Ring-MQTT is set to use auto name, password, and host. I am not sure where to check that the auto information is set correctly but it has been working till I upgraded to 2022.9.7. Not sure if that is when it happened but was about the same time.
I have been having issues with mqtt add-on recently (nothing related to ring) and i had to restart the mqtt add-on and restart the dependent add-on as a follow up.
I’m not sure if this is basic HA functionality, or how this add-on/integration implements it. I noticed that I have 2 ways to disarm the Ring Alarm in an automation.
Under the Action pane:
- I can choose the “Device” option, select the Ring alarm device and the “Action” as "Disarm ". It also has a code option, where I added the disarm code.
- I can use the “Service” option, choose “alarm_control_panel.alarm_disarm” as the service, and the Ring Alarm entity (not device, but the entity) as the target. I did not provide the disarm code in this case.
Behavior:
In #1, the alarm gets disarmed, but my Alexa/Echo devices (which are connected to Ring via the “Guard” feature) ask me for the voice code to disarm the alarm, even though I provided it in the HA action.
In case of #2, the alarm gets disarmed, Alexa doesn’t ask for anything, and neither do I have to provide the code.
TL;DR: If I provide code, then Alexa asks for it again. If I don’t provide it, Alexa doesn’t ask for it. 
Thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks
I have make an issue (Mosquitto broker Error · Issue #2688 · home-assistant/addons · GitHub) on github.
But I got this answer:
“Ring-MQTT with Video Streaming” is not sending proper authentication, report the issue with the author of “Ring-MQTT with Video Streaming”
I’m not really sure I understand the response in that thread. The logs you provided don’t have anything to do with ring-mqtt, you only mentioned it when opening the issue which confused things.
Regardless, it’s exceedingly unlikely that the problem is with the Mosquitto addon or the ring-mqtt addon. According to analytics the Mosquitto addon is deployed by over 50% of all HA users, like 100’s of thousands of users, if there was a basic problem with it there would be literally hundreds of posts about it. Even ring-mqtt, which has a paltry few thousand users (analytics suggest around 4000 total users) there would be dozens of posts on the Github project about this.
I run a fully updated HA for both my production and development instances, everything works without issues and nothing has changed with MQTT authentication of any significance for years, other than the change to the MQTT URL that occurred with the upgrade of ring-mqtt to 5.x. Over 90% of users are on a 5.x version with nearly no reports of this issue.
This means that the problems pretty much have to be caused by specific environmental issues. Now, it could still be a bug that is tickled by a specific setup issue, but the point is, that bug can’t be widespread. Trust me, if even the slightly thing goes wrong globally with ring-mqtt I get dozens of posts in a matter of hours.
So, we’ll need to troubleshoot your specific issues, but this isn’t the place for that. If you are willing and able to share full logs, and all configs, then feel free to open an issue on the Github page.
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- I can choose the “Device” option, select the Ring alarm device and the “Action” as "Disarm ". It also has a code option, where I added the disarm code.
The ring-mqtt integration has no access to the codes in the alarm. This “disarm code” for the device is used only within Home Assistant and you have to manually define this code in the ring-mqtt configuration (this is covered in the documentation).
In #1, the alarm gets disarmed, but my Alexa/Echo devices (which are connected to Ring via the “Guard” feature) ask me for the voice code to disarm the alarm, even though I provided it in the HA action.
I don’t understand what you are trying to do. Ring already has direct integration with Alexa for arming/disarming, why would you attempt to use this through Home Assistant? It’s way easier to just link you Alexa to your Ring account and call it a day vs attempting to go from Alexa to Home Asisstant, to ring-mqtt back to Ring. Of course you can do this, but in that case you’ll need to provide the disarm code you’ve defined for ring-mqtt, not the codes for your actual Ring alarm.
Hello,
what has changed in the MQTT URL?
Is this the correct url:
mqtt://auto_username:auto_password@auto_hostname:1883
How can I share full logs and all conifgs? And on witch Github page?
What just occurred to me, the error wired up At night my Home Assistant was suddenly no longer available and I had to stretch out the power on the Raspberry Pi and plug it in again so that Home Assistant worked again.
Hi all
First of all sorry if my questions were already raised by someone here, but as there are more than 1000 posts, it’s not easy to get an answer just by reading them or by key words.
Thanks to this integration I was able to get Ring Alarm communicate with HA via Mosquitto broker
MQTT.
My questions are:
1/ I have added 2 new sensors (1h ago), but for now I’m unable to see them in my devices list of Mosquitto broker MQTT. I did a complete scan of mqtt devices by going to the listening mode again and adding #, but no success to discover these 2 new sensors. Also just for your information, I already had 2 of these sensors previously (they are working well with HA), these are just 2 new but the same model.
2/ When the alarm is armed (home or away), I have noticed that it is not possible to trigger it from HA. For example I want to trigger the alarm with a third party sensor that is located in my garage. It seems that Ring is blocking the activation or triggering of the alam when it is armed. Did anyone here found a solution for this.
Many thanks for your help.
Phil
ok I found the answer for my first question, in the documentation of the Mqtt Broker application.
Here below is the answer (I just had to click on Re-configure):
Configuration
MQTT discovery is enabled by default, but can be disabled. To do this, click on “Configure” in the integration page in the UI, then “Re-configure MQTT” and then “Next”.
Link: MQTT - Home Assistant
My second question is still open and your answer are more than welcome.
2/ When the alarm is armed (home or away), I have noticed that it is not possible to trigger it from HA. For example I want to trigger the alarm with a third party sensor that is located in my garage. It seems that Ring is blocking the activation or triggering of the alam when it is armed. Did anyone here found a solution for this. Blockquote
Many thanks
I have no idea what happened, however all of my ring alarm entities now show unavailable. I have regenerated a new token like I did the last time this happened, but alas, everything is still unavailable. According to the history log, everything went offline on 9/29.
You don’t really give much information to help you with… but the first thing I would recommend you do is try restarting the add-on and also make sure your MQTT broker is running.
Hi all,
no idea about this please
Thank you for your help
Can you trigger your ring alarm through the ring app? I can’t find where to do that.
If you can’t do it through the ring alarm, then this add-on probably won’t be able to either.
I could be wrong, so if anyone else has more insight, please feel free to chime in!
Ring doesn’t provide a capability to trigger the standard alarm via the API, alarms can only be triggered via local, Ring certified sensors, which are connected directly to the base station via Z-wave.
You can get close to what you want if you enable the panic switches option in the configuration and then you will get access to switches that allow you to trigger a “police” or “fire” panic alarm, the same as what is available in the app, but I’ve been told by at least one user that this requires a Ring subscription to work. Note that it may be a violation of your Ring terms of service to trigger these via automation from 3rd party sensors if you are using monitoring, which is why these are not enabled by default.