Ring Doorbell "Camera Previews"

Feature Requests
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Any update on live preview?
I could really make use of it. Is there anything I can do to speed it along?

8

If you using the following in lovelaceui.yaml it shows the first frame of the last recording and the ability to replay it by hitting the camera icon

  - type: picture-glance
    title: Front Door Last Motion
    entities: 
      - camera.front_door
    camera_image: camera.front_door
9

Seams its been added to the PyPy lib https://github.com/tchellomello/python-ring-doorbell/pull/108

Just need to hook in to HA ?

10

Looks like it was merged 4 days ago, I’d suspect it would be available in 0.90.0 of Home Assistant.

11

0.90.1 still is referencing python-ring-doorbell 0.2.2 and the snapshot is in 0.2.3. I’m not sure if it need additional changes to the HA component to take advantage of it besides revving the version.

12

This will require more code changes than just bumping the library, I just submitted a PR to bump the library but the snapshot will be trickier. Seems there are some issues reported in the main library as well around it. I also suspect live view will need to be enabled on each camera in order for it to work.

13

Keen for this as well, it’d be perfect for facial recognition stuff

14

Any news on this?
Thanks!

15

Would be great to have. Just got a Ring Doorbell 2 for the holidays which has the hourly snapshot images.

I thought HA would just support this out of the box, or at the very least, it would be an attribute on the entity that I could create a template entity off of.

Please add support for snapshot images in Home Assistant! :camera: :heart:

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16

As I understand it, the limitation is imposed by RING, not Home Assistant

17

@tsimons78 Is there documentation online to support this?

18

I remember seeing it mentioned a few times on the forums (between here, and facebook)

What I wonder is if they will give access to the new random snapshot feature. …I get not being able to query for a snap, but I wonder if they will make their random snaps available because they’re already taken.

19

As a bit of background, when I chased Ring, I got this reply, I have no idea who they are “continuing to work with”:

Blockquote
Joshua Roth [email protected]
Fri 10/01/2020 02:24

  • [email protected]
    We’ve been working with the Home Assistant open source community for a few weeks now. As you know, this is not an approved Ring system, nor is it using Ring approved Partner APIs. We will continue to work with folks to get Home Assistant to a place that works with Ring and meets our security needs. Hopefully you’ll stick around as we truly value you and the community support.
    Joshua Roth
    Chief Technology Officer
    [email protected] 310.925.2643
20

He’s working with balloob the creator. There’s really no reason for users to be contacting Ring for this.

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21

Any updates on this??

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22

The Ring integration works properly.

23

Yes the integration is working ok but it only shows the last recorded event, I would prefer it shows that latest preview / snapshot image which is what this thread was discussing?

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24

So sad about reading that there’s no way to see a live stream from the ring s cameras or doorbell… Their subscription plan for security and cloud is great but being not able to use their cameras on live view with HA makes me rethink about the cameras I need to use

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25

same here…
and also wyze camera…

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26

I have a live feed of my Wyze cam in home assistant with a Picture Entity Card Configuration and my wyze camera as the entity and camera view(optional) set to live