Ring-MQTT - Can't get video or snapshot to work

deprovision · February 8, 2024, 9:27am

Hello,

I am trying to configure a home assistant card so that it displays a video or screen capture when there is an event. I have successfully integrated MQTT with Ring, but I am not sure what to do next. I have done a lot of research trying to create actions and cards, but I can’t seem to get the card to display a video or picture. Further, when I try to save a photo to the /media folder, the folder is blank. I am not sure if I need to use go2rtc (which that seems super confusing). Trying my best to learn but I feel stuck. Any help or guidance would be appreciated

jchh · February 8, 2024, 1:00pm

did you check here? This explains how with examples.

deprovision · February 8, 2024, 4:51pm

Thank you. I have read this, and I get confused during this statement

From the Home Assistant Devices list select the Camera to be added
Select the Info sensor and, on the pop-up window click the Control icon in the upper right corner
Click Attributes to expand the available attribute properties
Copy the Stream Source and Still Image URL values to a temporary location

I am using a ring doorbell 2nd gen. This is my MQTT what I am seeing

deprovision · February 8, 2024, 4:55pm

Do I need to do RTSP? If so, I have these instructions, but I am unsure where to find the ‘sensors’ section

Find and select the desired camera from the Home Assistant Devices list view
In the Sensors section of the device view select the Info sensor and, in the pop-up window, click the Control icon in the upper right corner
Select Attributes to expand the available attribute properties
View and make a copy of the Stream Source value which is the guessed RTSP URL

this is my ring doorbell setting.

jchh · February 8, 2024, 7:51pm

huh. Mine is identical to yours.

I remember getting the info but, for the life of me, I cannot remember how (I cannot see an info sensor either). I wonder of something has changed.

deprovision · February 8, 2024, 8:31pm

oh bummer, yea, the instructions seems straight forward enough, I just can’t see where I select the “info” sensor or “sensors section”. Just not sure where to go for that

AdamK · March 12, 2024, 3:20pm

Have you had any luck with getting this solved? I got stuck on the same point.

DabblerIOT · March 25, 2024, 1:27pm

I am stuck as well at same point. Instructions don’t match how HA works / looks now.

deprovision · March 25, 2024, 8:15pm

yea I did get this solved. You select The three dots next to “Download Diagnostics”, look throuugh the downloaded file for “RPC Stream” and use that to obtain the information needed to set up the ‘generic camera’ card. Don’t use the snapshot stream, I couldn’t get it to work

armedad · March 26, 2024, 8:14am

for the rtsp stream, I really recommend this instead

{{ state_attr('sensor.name_of_your_ring_info', 'stream_Source') }}

note carefully… It is the sensor with the name of your ring plus ‘_info’

There is this sensor info device that is created. You can use this template for the stream URL in the generic camera config. It will pull the right URL for you.

I dont know why the videos and docs don’t do this… I find it much easier to get right

DabblerIOT · March 26, 2024, 5:35pm

That is a good idea, I opened an item for discussion on the project git page. I’ll add that suggestion as well…

Discussion I opened on ring Mqtt project page… hopefully help next set of folks that get stuck.

How I found it, developer tools, states, camera.[camera name].info… it’s in there…

DabblerIOT · March 28, 2024, 1:02am

Mqtt mosquito, ring-mqtt, and this… (may need to install go2rtc independently)… unsure. Alot of old, outdated, and wrong information out there… 3/27/2024… this is the way to go. Works no problem.