Ring Doorbell Download

Configuration
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yeah, I see now that I moved away from downloading the video and playing that back.

The way I have set it up now is that i use the camerastream from the Ring integration. (I dont really use it, since it’s a battery one, so its slow to upload/download to HA, quicker to press the notification from the Ring app and open it there)

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OK, thanks!

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Not sure if it’s worth to anyone, but after reading this thread, I’ve combined most of the ideas to come up with the following (thanks everyone for your contributions).

Basically, I download everytime a new video is generated, this way I don’t need to add a delay.

alias: Download Ring Videos
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - camera.front_door
    attribute: last_video_id
condition: []
action:
  - service: downloader.download_file
    data:
      url: '{{ states.camera.front_door.attributes.video_url }}'
      subdir: >-
        {{state_attr("camera.front_door", "friendly_name")}}/{{
        now().strftime("%Y-%m") }}
      filename: >-
        {{ state_attr('camera.front_door', 'friendly_name') }}-{{
        now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S") }}.mp4
mode: single

Hope this helps anyone looking at this thread in the future.

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The integration works great I do have a question is there a way to map in the downloader nas storage network drive not my local home assistant drive even with the Python script

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is there any way to download the videos to the network storage, now i can use my NAS to save all the footage automagical,
especially after the last release for HA we can now add all the nas locally

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Did we ever find the answer to this question?

I currently have one doorbell and two cameras, with a Home Premium subscription covering them all and also automations in HA (using the method posted below by @prageeth, based on the last_video_id attribute) to grab videos from them as they are produced. Those videos them get copied out of HA and added to my photo/video collection in OneDrive. That all works nicely.

If I cancel my subscription, will the ability to download videos in HA stop working?

I guess I can cancel my plan and find out! But if anyone knows…

Thanks,
Steve.