Ring Doorbell to ISY (YAY!)

[xKing]

Home Assistant has Ring integration already (opensource), you may want to give it a try while waiting. 

I sold my Ring and got Nest Hello, so can't really test that....

[Bumbershoot]

15 minutes ago, xKing said:

Home Assistant has Ring integration already (opensource), you may want to give it a try while waiting. 

I sold my Ring and got Nest Hello, so can't really test that....

Okay, I have the Nest polyglot nodeserver already running and am happy with it.  Is the Hello incorporated into that nodeserver (I might have missed something...)?

[xKing]

Yeah Hello shows up as a camera in my NodeServer, will show a screenshot later tonight

P.S. Attached is a screenshot of how Nest Hello looks like. There is no API for the doorbell button right now, but "Event - Person" always works

Edited July 18, 2018 by xKing

[PurdueGuy]

14 hours ago, Michel Kohanim said:

Hi Bumbershoot,

Yes, we more than half way done in developing the Polyglot in the Cloud. Once that's done, this should be quite simple.

With kind regards,
Michel

I'd always volunteer to test whatever, even alpha stuff.  Being a computer engineer, I like being bleeding edge.  And I have 2 Ring devices now!

[Michel Kohanim]

Hi @MWareman,

Haven't gotten that far but it should support pretty much anything that the API supports. 

With kind regards,
Michel

[AllDigital]

I've got a Ring Pro integrated to my ISY994i via IFTTT and the Portal.  I'm using it initiate a chime and voice in the house from the ISY to an Elk Alarm. It also turns on lights, based on the time of day.  In general, it works well with only 3-4 seconds of latency, but there is an odd bug with the Ring app, when I go to "Live View" in the Ring app it triggers a ring event to IFTTT, so the doorbell goes off in the house and the lights go on. If I get a motion event and I want to go to live view I can't do it without triggering the chime from the ISY and annoying the family -- a bigger issue late at night. 

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I hope the upcoming direct integration is less buggy.  

[Bumbershoot]

On 7/17/2018 at 3:38 PM, xKing said:

Yeah Hello shows up as a camera in my NodeServer, will show a screenshot later tonight

P.S. Attached is a screenshot of how Nest Hello looks like. There is no API for the doorbell button right now, but "Event - Person" always works

Thanks for this.  All I was looking for is a way to get a bit flipped in my ISY so I can manage external lighting, internal notifications, etc. 

I was able to purchase a Nest Hello for a $30.00 discount which included a free Google Home Mini (which hasn't arrived yet, but I understand will manage some announcements).  All good!

I've got the Hello installed yesterday, and it appears that you're exactly correct about the "Event - Person" toggling reliably.  I'm off to the races with this thing.

[AllDigital]

It appears that IFTTT has a bug in their Ring integration. As I posted above, the IFTTT integration for a Ring event and motion event work just fine. They call the ISY portal POST event and all is good. The issue is when I go to "Live View" in the Ring app it also triggers a Ring event (as if someone pushed the button).

This morning, I switched over to Stringify. I set up a trigger using their Ring "thing" and then I used their Maker thing and gave it the same ISY Portal URL for my IFTTT. I then disabled the IFTTT flows and retested. The Stringify flow also works perfect (with very little latency) and when I go to Live View in the app it does not erroneously fire the Ring event. I suspected it was a bug with Ring, but it appears to be a bug with IFTTT.  Either way, good to know that Stringify also works well for ISY to Ring integration.

Edited July 22, 2018 by AllDigital

[bob123]

Gave up on the Ring to IFTTT a while ago due to the latency.  Trying out Strinify - question on getting the stringify maker to work with the portal.   I paste the IFTTT url from the portal into the uRL line for the maker for the HTTP post.  It then asks for authentication type and login/password.  What is the authentication type and is the login the my.isy.io login?  Thanks

[bob123]

Got it working.  Used the Basic Auth V2 and my portal login.  Stringify works great - almost instant response. Can now eliminate my ELK-930 to Ring hookup that has been pretty unreliable and recently stopped working.

[bwade913]

On 8/4/2018 at 3:59 PM, bob123 said:

Gave up on the Ring to IFTTT a while ago due to the latency.  Trying out Strinify - question on getting the stringify maker to work with the portal.   I paste the IFTTT url from the portal into the uRL line for the maker for the HTTP post.  It then asks for authentication type and login/password.  What is the authentication type and is the login the my.isy.io login?  Thanks

Thanks for the tip on Stringify. I was looking for something for something with less latency than IFTTT and this is pretty good. My responses have mostly been under 20 sec with the longest at about 40 sec. I am using Nest camera events to turn on outdoor lights and the five minute turnaround from IFTTT wasn't cutting it. It took a while to get my head around the Stringify app but it's pretty straightforward once you get there. BTW, another advantage is that Stringify supports Nest's "camera saw someone" feature whereas IFTTT only supports motion detection.

[xKing]

Did you try Nest node server via Polyglot? I support Person, Motion and Sound as separate triggers

[bwade913]

38 minutes ago, xKing said:

Did you try Nest node server via Polyglot? I support Person, Motion and Sound as separate triggers

I did not as I wasn't aware of Polyglot. I'll look into it. What sort of response time might I see with my Nest-->ISY application? 

[xKing]

Should be within 2-3 seconds

[bwade913]

40 minutes ago, xKing said:

Should be within 2-3 seconds

I found the documentation and see that I can run it on my OSX machine. I'll give it a try. I'm a recently retired applications engineer looking for a hobby.

[bwade913]

On 8/7/2018 at 6:56 PM, xKing said:

Should be within 2-3 seconds

Just following up on this in case anyone is looking for the same solution. I have the Nest2 node server running on a Raspberry pi and it works but isn't much faster than the Stringify solution. During the install I came across some documentation (I forget where) that said there can be up to a 30 sec delay due to a Nest limitation and that's pretty much what I'm seeing. Still happy to find out about Polyglot and get it running. I use Simple control and Sonos too and am installing their node servers. 

[xKing]

There are no “Nest limitations” and 30 seconds sounds ridiculous - I typically get “Person” event on ISY (have a blue LED lighting up on my desk :D) couple seconds before I get push notification on my phone.

[Bumbershoot]

34 minutes ago, xKing said:

There are no “Nest limitations” and 30 seconds sounds ridiculous - I typically get “Person” event on ISY (have a blue LED lighting up on my desk :D) couple seconds before I get push notification on my phone.

I concur -- I've got two Polyglot nodeservers involved (Nest2 and LiFX, with the ISY acting as the intermediary), and I get notifications (a couple of lights change colors) within a second or two of "Person" detection as well.  That happens prior to getting notification on my Apple Watch.  I'm pleased with the performance of these nodeservers.

[bwade913]

13 hours ago, xKing said:

There are no “Nest limitations” and 30 seconds sounds ridiculous - I typically get “Person” event on ISY (have a blue LED lighting up on my desk :D) couple seconds before I get push notification on my phone.

I'm timing from the triggering event, not the push notification which is also delayed in my case.

The limitation I found is described like this, 'The Nest Polyglot polls the Nest API every 30 seconds due to Nest anti-flooding mechanisms that temporarily disable queries to the API. So if anything is updated outside of ISY it could take up to 30 seconds to be reflected in the ISY interface."

https://github.com/Einstein42/nest-polyglot

[xKing]

That's old nodeserver that is no longer in the store. Nest2 does not poll, it uses REST Streaming.

[MWareman]

Hi xKing,
 
We do have a signed NDA with Ring and will shortly have access to their APIs. Please stay tuned.
 
With kind regards,
Michel

I was just mulling where this was at? Any news to share...

[Michel Kohanim]

Hello MWareman,

We are testing Cloud Polyglot as we speak (SolarEdge and Ecobee). We should be ready to open the gates to cloud based polys very very soon.

With kind regards,

Michel

[dwengrovitz]

On 9/30/2018 at 1:45 PM, Michel Kohanim said:

We are testing Cloud Polyglot as we speak (SolarEdge and Ecobee). We should be ready to open the gates to cloud based polys very very soon.

Seems like there are more than a few parties interested in this, and it's been a while since anyone asked ... so I'll take a turn.  Any new news on when the gates might open?

Dave

[NickCDavies]

As many others on this post, I wish to integrate my Ring DoorBell and security cameras into my ISY system.   The latest version of IFTTT does not allow me to create applets as the maker option is no longer available and there does not seem to be an applet readily available for ISY.

So following the chain of posts above the best option would appear to be using Polyglot. Having logged on to Polyglot, however, I do not see a Ring NodeServer listed in the Store.

When will this be available, and if not soon whats the best option to integrate Ring and ISY with little to no latency? 

Nick

[PurdueGuy]

2 hours ago, NickCDavies said:

As many others on this post, I wish to integrate my Ring DoorBell and security cameras into my ISY system.   The latest version of IFTTT does not allow me to create applets as the maker option is no longer available and there does not seem to be an applet readily available for ISY.

So following the chain of posts above the best option would appear to be using Polyglot. Having logged on to Polyglot, however, I do not see a Ring NodeServer listed in the Store.

When will this be available, and if not soon whats the best option to integrate Ring and ISY with little to no latency? 

Nick

For IFTTT, don't use the "Maker" channel now - use the "Make a web request" under "Webhooks" instead.

It does involve setting up Portal API keys, etc..but it works!