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1. #RING DOORBELL KEYPAD HOW TO#
2. #RING DOORBELL KEYPAD INSTALL#
3. #RING DOORBELL KEYPAD FULL#
4. #RING DOORBELL KEYPAD SOFTWARE#

I find messing around with smart home stuff and integration projects can be fun, but if you’re going to make something a permanent feature of your smart home you ultimately need it to be reliable and low maintenance. These are tiny computers about the size of a deck of cards, similar to other smart home bridge devices, so they’re easy to place out of the way and you don’t have to worry about heat or noise. As such, the best way to run it is on an inexpensive Raspberry Pi. Since HomeBridge is very light on resources, you don’t need a heavy lifting server to run it, and you want it to sit in the background and do it’s thing 24/7. I’ve found the plugin to be very reliable, and surprisingly responsive given the extra hops things have to go through. In Ring’s case, the appropriate plugin provides a connection between Ring’s cloud services and your Home Hub allowing HomeKit to see your Ring devices just like any other HomeKit accessory.

#RING DOORBELL KEYPAD INSTALL#

There are hundreds available that you can simply install to add those devices to your HomeKit smart home, so on top of the Ring plugin you’ll be able to find all sorts of other useful opportunities once you have HomeBridge installed. Normally such devices are defined by the bridge maker but, in HomeBridge (being third party bridge software) it’s defined by third party plugins, kind of like Alexa skills. HomeKit only requires the bridge device to be supported, so any devices that connect to the bridge will be recognized by HomeKit automatically. Just like formally supported bridges, it translates the device maker’s commands to and from HomeKit. Being open source, it’s free to use, and runs on a wide variety of computer platforms, so you’ll be able to find a option that works for you.

#RING DOORBELL KEYPAD SOFTWARE#

HomeBridge is a piece of software that runs quietly in the background somewhere on your home network and acts just like a normal smart home bridge device, just like the Philips Hue Bridge and similar. You can, of course, run both and get the whole enchilada, if you’re game.

#RING DOORBELL KEYPAD HOW TO#

If you really want HomeKit Secure Video functionality, I have a separate guide on how to get Scrypted set up for Ring cameras. In this article we’ll focus on the Homebridge option as it’s more comprehensive and easier to set up, so is a better option for most people. The two solutions above act like software bridges that handle the translation of commands between Ring and HomeKit, even though they are not officially supported. Such devices act as translators that handle communication between different platforms or network protocols. Many smart devices connect to smart home platforms by way of a hub or bridge. In fact, I’m certain they offer more features than any first-party support would have brought to the table. We have some inventive engineering by the open-source developer community to thank for these solutions. The downside is that it doesn’t support other Ring connected devices like Ring Alarm sensors or modes at this point.

#RING DOORBELL KEYPAD FULL#

Scrypted - This newer option provides comprehensive support for all kinds of Ring cameras and doorbells with full HomeKit Secure Video support and better performance. The downside is you can only access live streams and basic notifications from Ring cameras in HomeKit, and you can’t record using HomeKit Secure Video. Homebridge - This is to go-to solution as it offers support for the full range of Ring devices including cameras, alarms, lights, and sensors.

These tools will give you a lot of HomeKit functionality depending on what features you are most interested in, but you will have to be willing to get a bit hands-on with setting them up. You can get Ring devices to work with HomeKit thanks to a couple of third-party tools.