Support for Ring Access Controller

[parchmaf]

Feature Request

Description

Ring Access Controller is used for opening and closing gates and it is a supported device within the Ring app. It would be nice if it was supported by this plugin for Homebridge

Describe the solution you'd like

All that is needed for this is a toggle switch. Ring Access Controller does not know if a gate is open or closed but if activated it will open or close regardless of state. Considering that this is a Ring branded device and already included in the Ring app, I would think this would be a relatively easy add-on.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Have you considered any alternative solutions or workarounds?

Device data

If you are requesting a new device be added to homebridge-ring, please follow the instructions in https://github.com/dgreif/ring/wiki/Data-Discovery and include the output here

Ring Data.pdf

[tsightler]

This is a duplicate of #384. Unfortunately these devices are not actually part of the standard Ring API but actually completely different and use the Amazon Key API so adding them is non-trivial.

[dgreif]

@tsightler is spot on, see #384 (comment) for a full description

[parchmaf]

Ring Access Controller is no longer supported in Amazon Key. It was removed from Amazon key and put into the Ring app only a few months ago from what I understand. Fred Parchman (973) 886-1200 (m) ***@***.***

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On Sep 14, 2022, at 9:58 PM, Dusty Greif ***@***.***> wrote: @tsightler <https://github.com/tsightler> is spot on, see #384 (comment) <#384 (comment)> for a full description — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1053 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ARPXL2QRZ4OURZQU7OSX6E3V6KGDTANCNFSM6AAAAAAQMVESGE>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[tsightler]

Do you know this as a fact or is this just your belief? Just because it's visible in the Ring app does not mean it doesn't use the Amazon Key API. As described in the referenced issue, even though it appears in the Ring app, the Ring app itself is simply talking directly to the Amazon Key API to control this device rather than using the Ring API.

You can see this even in the device discovery data included when opening this issue. If you look through that data you will see that there are no locks other than the Z-wave locks, however, there is this entry at the end:

"amazonKeyLocks":[{"locks":["d4c01621-fab8-4b6d-9e8f-1b29224d1491"],"migrated":[true]}]}

That still looks like an Amazon Key lock to me, and it still has all of the Amazon Key features, so I'm guessing it's still controlled by the Amazon Key API. However, if you have information that shows that this lock can now be controlled via the Ring API, feel free to post the API endpoints, there's certainly nothing in the device discovery that would indicate any change.

[parchmaf]

All that I can tell you is that the gate can no longer be controlled with Amazon key.  It was removed for me.  I tried re-adding it and I cannot.  I did call ring access controller support and they confirmed that the only way to control the gate controller is with the ring app.Sent from my iPadOn Sep 15, 2022, at 3:24 PM, tsightler ***@***.***> wrote: Do you know this as a fact or is this just your belief? Just because it's visible in the Ring app does not mean it doesn't use the Amazon Key API. As described in the referenced issue, even though it appears in the Ring app, the Ring app itself is simply talking directly to the Amazon Key API to control this device rather than using the Ring API. You can see this even in the device discovery data included when opening this issue. If you look through that data you will see that there are no locks other than the Z-wave locks, however, there is this entry at the end: "amazonKeyLocks":[{"locks":["d4c01621-fab8-4b6d-9e8f-1b29224d1491"],"migrated":[true]}]} That still looks like an Amazon Key lock to me, and it still has all of the Amazon Key features, so I'm guessing it's still controlled by the Amazon Key API. However, if you have information that shows that this lock can now be controlled via the Ring API, feel free to post the API endpoints. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[tsightler]

I think you may be confusing the Amazon Key app with the Amazon Key API/service. Just because they've removed the lock from the app does not mean it no longer uses the Amazon Key API/service to control it. Amazon Key is mostly intended to be a service provided by Amazon to be consumed by other access control vendors and, as far as I can tell, Ring is simply doing this directly from their app, as they always have, previously the lock was simply also available in the Amazon Key app.

Admittedly I could be wrong, but nothing in the data dump appears to indicate any change in regard to the APIs used to control the lock.