How to add Ring Floodlight Cam Video to Dashboard when integrating with Smartthings

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Hi … I’m a brand new used and have just created my first dashboard. I am using SmartThings and have added several Ring Floodlight cams to my dashboard, but they only show as a motion sensor and I can’t see any way of changing it to show the video from the Floodlight Cam. I check through the community post and don’t see anything other that an article that state I need to use “ring://” …. but with no example. I can see the video from the Floodlight Cam on my SmartThings App, so just need to figure out how to get it to show the video on my Sharp Tools dashboard.

Can anyone that has actually done this help buy either pointing me to an article/post or provide an example on how it done.

Thanks

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Ring does not expose their video feeds and does not allow SmartThings to expose them either. I suspect there’s some sort of special agreement between Ring and SmartThings to allow temporary viewing within the SmartThings app.

You’re probably referring to using a Hyperlink to open the Ring app which is an approach many people use. Basically enabling them to tap a link on their dashboard and it opens the Ring app so they can quickly view streams on demand.

There’s a bunch of other community approaches where people have automated opening the Ring App on their dedicated dashboard viewing tablets whenever relevant events occur (eg. doorbell rung), but it’s more of an unofficial community approach rather than something official.

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Thanks for the quick reply. That’s not really what I was looking for. I was thinking that the Floodlight video could be embedded. I was able to get the tile to open the Ring Website dashboard though. How would I open the Ring App?

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Check the link in my last reply.

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Sorry missed that. Works fine with just adding ring:// as the url.

Do you know why the tile for the Ring Camera SmartThings device only shows it as a motion sensor (I.e. active/inactive) instead of a camera?

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I suspect Ring doesn’t allow SmartThings to expose it - much like how SmartThings isn’t allowed to expose Nest devices to third parties. Other than Alexa (owned by Amazon who owns Ring), SmartThings, and a limited spotty implementation with Google home I don’t know of any other real Ring integrations. Ring doesn’t seem to be interest in providing open integrations - instead preferring a very closed approach.

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Thanks for that. I wasn’t aware. I was just curious given that it seems to work via SmartThings hence why I wanted to give it a try.