Ring Device integration via MQTT w/ Video Streaming

tsightler · September 7, 2024, 6:23pm

Most likely some sensor is offline, for example from a dead battery or something else. An offline sensor is not assumed to be in faulted state. You should check the state of your sensors in the Ring app. Also, can you arm via the Ring app?

Another possibility is that your purchased after March 29th, 2023, and thus digital arming/disarming requires a Ring subscription, as clearly indicated on the Ring website.

NCO3 · December 31, 2024, 10:12am

Hi everyone,
My Ring Doorbell wired does not report motion anymore.

The connection is obviously there as I can switch on/off the motion detection with switch.kamera_haustur_mqtt_motion_detection and this is also reflected in the Ring app correctly.

There is motion happening obviously, but not reported through the binary_sensor.

lastMotion: 1734645074
lastMotionTime: 2024-12-19T21:51:14Z
personDetected: true
motionDetectionEnabled: true
device_class: motion
friendly_name: Bewegung (Haustür) - MQTT

Is there anyone with similar experience?
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

DeckardCain2014 · January 2, 2025, 8:41am

Same for me. I just wanted to switch over to this addon and cancel my Ring subscription. But I’m not sure it will work, if even motion is not detected. Also the latest Ding is not detected

NCO3 · January 2, 2025, 11:45am

You are right - I did not even recognize, that the doorbell press is also not recognized.
@tsightler Are you aware of this issue?
Thanks!

NCO3 · January 11, 2025, 6:09am

Hi there,

is there no one else except myself and @DeckardCain2014 having the issue with no motion detection (and doorbell event)?
@tsightler: Is this a known issue (maybe for the doorbell wired)?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT:
I found some notes in the RN at v5.7.0.
Will check these first in accordance to RTFM.

EDIT II:
Some notes on this process:
3. Navigate to the Ring Control Center using the Ring App or Ring Web console
I did not find this in the settings in the web, but the App and I had tons of python related authorized devices.

Even after I deleted them and re-connected MQTT (showed up as ring-mqtt-addon-xxxx like the previously noted device name), no motion is detected.

As mentioned earlier:
I can enable / disable the motion detection via MQTT just fine (reflected in Ring App accordingly)

Anything else I could check?

hassiopi · January 14, 2025, 7:27am

My Ring Video Doorbell 2 motion and ding are still detected via ring-mqtt and working for me as of today. And I don’t have a ring subscription.

ring-mqtt.js version: 5.6.7

NCO3 · January 15, 2025, 8:26am

Thank you for your feedback.
I am using ring-mqtt 5.8.0

Maybe that’s the problem

NCO3 · January 20, 2025, 7:15am

Never mind - Problem solved.

I checked the detailed motion settings in the Ring Doorbell (Smart Alerts).
These were messed up so there was somehow no Motion detected even the global motion detection and motion push notification was activated.
So I turned all Smart Alerts off (Human, Others, Packets) and switched them on again.
This fixed the issue.

GeoffatMM · February 19, 2025, 8:51am

Hi,

I have posted my questions on MQTT here:

but have not had any response. Should I transfer the request to this post? Or could someone look at my separate post please?

Geoff

busman · March 17, 2025, 8:46pm

Is anyone experiencing cameras not turning off when the Ring alarm is disabled?

In my “Home” mode I have my outside cameras motion detection turned on. In the Ring app they are all disabled in “Disarmed” mode. I have an automation that changes from Home to Disarmed at 7am, but sometimes (a few random times of the week) the alarm is Disarmed, but the motion detection is still enabled. It happened again this morning:

To fix I then go into Home Assistant and manually turn the alarm on to “Home” and then “Disarmed” and then the camera motion detection turns off.

I kind of doubt this is an issue with the integration, but curious if anyone else is seeing this. I can add an automation to check for this and turn off the motion detection.

I’m on the Ring App version 5.82.1.

Bbobak · March 29, 2025, 2:49pm

You mention you can have event and live stream both for one camera. Based on this description, do I need to have two “back yard” generic camera cards on my dashboard one linked to live stream and one linked to event stream? Or am I reading that incorrectly?

busman · April 1, 2025, 4:33pm

Does the Ring API indicate when the base station is using a cellular network?

The Ring iPhone app notifies me when the base station is using cellular backup.

The attribues for my base station include “commStatus” but when I unplug my ethernet cable it continues to show “ok”:

acStatus: ok
batteryStatus: charging
brightness: 0
commStatus: ok
lastCommTime: 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
lastUpdate: 2025-04-01T16:23:35Z
serialNumber: ****
tamperStatus: ok
volume: 0
icon: mdi:information-outline
friendly_name: Home Base Station Info

What should commStatus indicate? And what about lastCommTime?

Thanks,

By the way, at what point should these kind of questions be a new thread?

chrisbats655 · May 30, 2025, 11:46am

Hi, I am wondering if someone can help. New to HA, and docker really.

I am trying to set this up, I am using docker containers with HA core. So no Addon.
I have a PC with both containers on, using docker compose.

I have followed the instruction and got the 2FA process sorted.

And can run the container. But then can not access from HA.
I have created a user in HA, for the connection.
I think it is down to my URL in the config file.
i have the following in the config, where
yyyyy is user name setup in HA
xxxxxx is password set in HA
zzz is the IP of my PC running docker with HA and ring-mqtt on it.
“mqtt(s)://[yyyyyy[:xxxxxxxx]@]zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz[:1883]”

in HA i then try to add mqtt and fill in user and password about, i have tried the IP set here and also 127.0.0.1

any help much appreciated.

brad.ny · June 1, 2025, 12:18am

Is Wi-Fi set up on your Ring hub? Maybe it’s just reverting to Wi-Fi and thus still showing commStatus = ok.

busman · June 2, 2025, 5:08am

Bumping this question again about a Pro 2 Doorbell not reporting motion detected. Anyone else have this issue?

hassiopi · July 18, 2025, 7:10pm

What does the ring-mqtt log say? Maybe restart your ring-mqtt? For me, I don’t need to explicitly subscribe to any MQTT message. The ring-mqtt is supposed to auto detect the Ring device and do it for me. I’m on older “Video Doorbell 2” though.

busman · July 18, 2025, 8:14pm

It’s been a while, and what I thought was happening was that I would get motion alerts even when motion wasn’t enabled. That doesn’t really make sense, to be honest.

I had an automation that turned on the a light when approaching the door and that worked when the alarm was off. But maybe the old doorbell was configured for motion even when the alarm was disabled. I had just noticed my automation didn’t trigger any more after replacing the doorbell.

In a bit of an opposite issue, I’ve been trying to find a way to turn off the motion detection on Ring flood lights. That is, make is so the lights don’t turn on with motion, which is different than motion detection for the camera. I can disable them in the Ring app, but haven’t figure out how to do it in ring-mqtt.

NateAsOfLate · October 15, 2025, 3:06am

Has anyone been able to get the Kidde RGCUAR-RW Smoke + CO Alarm integrated into HA after getting it connected to their Ring Hub? I’ve had other First Alert ZCOMBO smoke/CO detectors connected to my Ring Hub, which show up in HA, but the new Kidde RGCUAR-RW isn’t seeming to want to pull in…

Donder24 · October 24, 2025, 7:59pm

Hi,

After reading and trying a lot of different solutions I’m a bit lost, how to solve this.
I don’t get motion updates anymore from my stickup cam’s. Allthough I’m seeing the updates in the ring2MQTT addon.

So, in the log you see at 19.33 there’s a motion detected but in the history of the motion entity, there’s nothing showing up. I already deleted the devices in the MQTT integration but it’s not helping.

Does anyone encounter this same issue?
Thx!

2025-10-24T19:33:19.470Z ring-mqtt [Terras] ring/u1540n-2j4rl-0/camera/9c7613184578/siren/state OFF
2025-10-24T19:33:19.470Z ring-attr [Terras] ring/u1540n-2j4rl-0/camera/9c7613184578/motion/attributes {"lastMotion":1761334129,"lastMotionTime":"2025-10-24T19:28:49Z","personDetected":false,"motionDetectionEnabled":true}
2025-10-24T19:33:19.470Z ring-mqtt [Terras] ring/u1540n-2j4rl-0/camera/9c7613184578/motion_detection/state ON
2025-10-24T19:33:19.470Z ring-mqtt [Terras] ring/u1540n-2j4rl-0/camera/9c7613184578/motion_warning/state OFF
2025-10-24T19:33:19.470Z ring-mqtt [Terras] ring/u1540n-2j4rl-0/camera/9c7613184578/stream/state OFF
2025-10-24T19:33:19.471Z ring-attr [Terras] ring/u1540n-2j4rl-0/camera/9c7613184578/stream/attributes {"status":"inactive"}
2025-10-24T19:33:19.471Z ring-mqtt [Terras] ring/u1540n-2j4rl-0/camera/9c7613184578/motion/state OFF
2025-10-24T19:33:19.471Z ring-attr [Terras] ring/u1540n-2j4rl-0/camera/9c7613184578/motion/attributes {"lastMotion":1761334129,"lastMotionTime":"2025-10-24T19:28:49Z","personDetected":false,"motionDetectionEnabled":true}

nebbiadigiorno · November 2, 2025, 12:36pm

i am a bit lost, can you point what to look for creating a “chime” automation for my ring doorbell? the “DING” sensor seems to not function anymore.