InHomeDoorbellSwitch not working with Chimes #167
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Sorry to hear you are having issues. Please upgrade to v |
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Ok I managed to dig my hole a little deeper - I updated to 5.9.1 and did as you suggested in the Ring app, but the switch still had no effect. So I tried deleting the Ring Camera from my Home app with the intent of re-adding it to see if that would help, but now I can't get it to appear when I select "Add a new Accessory" and "I don't have a code or can't scan". I tried deleting and re-installing the plugin entirely, and removing and re-adding Homebridge, but I can't get the doorbell to re-appear. Any suggestions? Thanks! |
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Ok that got the camera to show back up! Thank you - great documentation by the way, I should have checked around for that. Unfortunately turning off or on the doorbell switch still has no effect on the operation of the doorbell (either by looking within the Ring app itself or by testing the doorbell by ringing it). |
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Is the in home doorbell stuck on or off? Does it toggle if you change the setting in the Ring app? @smockle has it been working for you? |
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It's not stuck - I can toggle it off and on in the Home app, it just doesn't appear to have any influence on the behavior of the doorbell. I'm not sure exactly which setting in the Ring app I should be checking, but I tried toggling the switch in the Home app to see if it affected any of the following settings in the Ring app, and none of them did:
Just to make sure I understand the functionality correctly, in theory if I toggle the InHomeDoorbellSwitch to "off", then when the doorbell is pressed none of the chimes will ring and no push notifications will be sent? |
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Ahh, I think I may know the issue now. That switch currently controls mechanical or digital physical doorbells. I’m not sure that it works with Ring chimes. It really should control those as well, so we can look into changing it. I’ll try to get that added this week unless you want to tackle it @smockle |
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+1 for the ability to work with Ring chimes! One other related idea/suggestion: Most of the time, the chime is going off from motion (not the doorbell). What about some (customizable) switches to snooze motion alerts as well? I was thinking in the config file, users could specify common durations (probably have to pick from Ring's default list) e.g., 1 min, 5 min, 1 hr, etc. and then "Snooze Motion X min" tiles could be implemented as stateless switches for each Ring device for instance. Or, it could be set up as some kind of 'Faucet' tile with a built-in duration? A very common situation for me is that I have lights come on or turn off at specific times of day, and the Ring chime goes off for these events. It would be great to snooze the Ring motion for 1 min, add a delay for 30 sec to ensure it reached the server, then trigger the lights. (The other option would be to toggle the chime on/off using your above idea... but it seems a little more complicated, because it would have to know to restore both the physical doorbell setting AND the chime setting). We use the chime only to extend the range in specific rooms. |
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Thanks @dgreif! Let me know if I can do anything to help with testing and whatnot. |
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Happy to test also! |
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Just a friendly ping regarding this... is there anything we can do to help in the meantime? This would be a really excellent feature. |
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@dxdc thanks for the ping! Good to know this is still wanted 😅. I have one other feature that I'm wrapping up, and then I can dive into this one. I ended up buying a chime a few months ago, so I'm all set up for testing. Just need to get some dedicated time to dive in |
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awesome thanks! |
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Chime support has been added in v @dxdc the snooze switch will snooze both ding and motion sounds while it is turned on. For your light situation, I'd recommend automating the snooze to turn on a few minutes before the lights do, and as part of the automation in HomeKit, you can set it to turn back off after X minutes. Hopefully that solves your problem 🤞 |
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Rad... can't wait to try it. Thanks @dgreif !! |
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@dgreif It seems there is a potential for custom snooze times? Or does it have to be the Ring-approved times? E.g., If so, wondering about the following:
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@dxdc while all of that is possible, it's not something I'm really interested in writing and maintaining. The default automations in HomeKit allow you to turn a switch on and then automatically turn it off after X minutes, which seems like it should cover the majority of use cases. Is there a reason that won't work for you? |
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Cool, it's really interesting to me that Ring allows you to set a custom number of minutes (as well as playing the sounds!). Big thanks to you and @jadenv for getting this implemented!! The fact that this is even an option now is terrific because Ring doesn't allow a Chime to be controlled by anyone except the owner. I have a number of cases that I'd love to be able to customize the number of minutes snoozed. This gets really powerful with NodeRED. For example:
The first 2 cases can actually be easily covered by NodeRED and the on/off chime switch, since 24 hours > the amount of time I need it snoozed. The tricky thing is for the custom cases like 3, where the number of minutes may be variable. For this, I'd settle for just hours (0-24). If we can change the maxValue of an accessory to 24, then this potentially just be a drop in replacement for a position/fan accessory vs. switch? Then, instead of reflecting on/off status during Ring polling, it could just round the number of hours to the nearest integer and reflect that on the position/fan control. Basically, creating a slider instead of just on/off. Happy to try to implement this kind of thing if you feel it could be valuable too. |
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I'd really prefer to say away from dialing or configuring the snooze duration since different users will have different specific needs. #1 is definitely too complicated for HomeKit, but I'm glad you are able to do it with NodeRed. #2 is definitely doable with what is implemented in HomeKit currently. For #3, my solution would be to add a more specific trigger for turning it on/off. For example, if you have a fan that you turn on during nap time, you can buy one of these switches (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XTKQTTV/) and have it automatically turn on chime snooze if it is turned on around nap time. And then when it is turned off, turn snooze off. That's how I'm setting mine up now that chime support is integrated 😄 |
"Brightness" is defined as a % of a day. The only allowable values are in discrete hours (0-24). See discussion in: dgreif#167 regarding the benefits of this approach. This implementation is working. To install this, it requires deleting the existing Chime. I do this as follows: ```sh cat cachedAccessories | jq 'del(.[] | select(.displayName|test("Chime")))' -c > cachedAccessories.new mv cachedAccessories.new cachedAccessories ``` I realize that `Brightness` may not be the ideal characteristic. Maybe using degrees (e.g., for a thermostat) would be more sensible, but I'd have to think through how to best do this given that users can have their settings in deg. C or F. Also, we could think through the best icon to use, although users can still edit the lightbulb icon to another one of their choosing.
First, this is an incredible plugin! Well done.
I was excited to see the addition of the InHomeDoorbellSwitch function so I could automate turning my doorbell on or off, but I've found that regardless of the state of the InHomeDoorbellSwitch switch my doorbell still always rings...I have the Elite Video Doorbell; is that one of the doorbells where this switch won't work, or is something else going on?
I'm a little out of touch on Homebridge lately so let me know what other information and/or logs I can provide that might be helpful.
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