How To View Ring Doorbell When It's Rung?

Robert_Bourne · January 7, 2020, 4:44pm

Thanks for the detailed response. I have a Fire 8 tablet, so I’ll look into it.

S_D · February 23, 2020, 10:45pm

How does one use the fully kiosk browser controller? I have the Sage doorbell sensor and installed it, works fine with Smarthings.

But not sure how to trigger it so that when the sensor goes off, to open up one of my media tiles that I have setup to stream my camera?

josh · February 23, 2020, 11:10pm

You would install the Fully Kiosk Browser Controller DTH and then setup a rule to use the loadUrl() command to load your desired URL when the doorbell sensor is activated.

Edit: The above linked SmartThings DTH is no longer available, but I put together a Fully Kiosk driver as an extra benefit for SharpTools premium users in my personal time. PM me if interested.

The Fully Kiosk Browser Controller device can open URLs, so you would want to have a dedicated dashboard with your stream as a large tile on it or even just open the stream URL directly.

As far as I’m aware, the Fully Kiosk DTH can’t ‘click’ a tile, so it can’t open an existing tile full screen… but you can use the trick of opening a different URL which has the media displayed in a large format.

S_D · February 23, 2020, 11:32pm

Cool, and the “loadURL()” rule is inputted where/how?

josh · February 24, 2020, 12:22am

You could do it in the SharpTools.io Rule Engine or in the rule editor of your choice.

S_D · February 24, 2020, 12:52am

Sorry, still learning at this. Tried that, but keep getting stumped. So I do the following:

Create a Rule
Select a trigger as my Sage Doorbell
Not sure whether to select “Button”, “Presence”, or “Supported Values” (I’m assuming it’s not this one as there doesn’t seem to be any values)
If “Button”, then there is a bunch of values in there like “down”, “Pushed”, double. I tried “down”.
I then selected a Flow, being the Fully DTH and executed a load URL command with the video URL.

Unfortunately, nothing happened.

James · February 24, 2020, 1:18am

@S_D, try using “Button” and “pushed” as the trigger. See below for example where my trigger is a Ring, but it should be similar.

A couple of tips when troubleshooting rules.

To verify if the trigger is configured properly, add an email notification in the flow, so you know if the rule was triggered based on if you received the email or not.
To test the rule activities, add the rule to a dashboard using “rule tile” so you can tap the rule tile to “manually” trigger it and verify if it executes the desired activities.

S_D · February 24, 2020, 11:52am

Thanks, that was helpful. So I’m getting an email, but nothing is happening in Fully? Same thing when I press the Sage tile, nothing comes up.

Maybe a setting needs to be changed in Fully itself?

James · February 24, 2020, 3:46pm

That’s a good progress knowing you received the email notification.
It does sound like the Fully device might not be configured properly. Please follow the “Settings” section in the post below to verify your settings.

Once done, you can open your SmartThings classic app and tap Screen On and Screen Off in the Fully device and it should be able to control your Fully Browser on your tablet and turn the tablet screen on/off.

S_D · February 24, 2020, 11:06pm

Okay, had to change the password and resave.

So it works now, however when the URL is brought up, the screen size is enormous, larger than the 8" screen so I only see a small portion of the image. Is there a way to reduce the size of the image that comes up via the URL?

Also, the URL just stays up forever, and to remove it you have to left swipe and select “Goto Start URL”, doesn’t appear to be an “x” on the image to go back to the start URL without having to swipe first.

S_D · February 24, 2020, 11:22pm

Thinking about it some more, is this doable instead?

Use Sage doorbell sensor to trigger a rule
Have the rule set so that when the sensor is triggered, it loads the “tincam monitor free” application (which I can set up to only show the front door camera)

I can then use Automateit to flip back to Fully say after a set time.

The above may be useful since tinycam monitor free offers the ability to use the mic an speaker from the camera.

josh · February 24, 2020, 11:25pm

I believe you should be able to accomplish that with the Fully Kiosk Controller launchAppPackage() command, similar to what was done in this thread:

Switch to Sonos app when music is playing

In your case, you would want to use the launchAppPackage command which can be used to launch other apps on the tablet then you would use the bringFullyToFront command to bring Fully (and your dashboard) back to the front.

It sounds like you already have the rough concepts working in WebCoRE, but the concept would be:
IF `sonos.playbackStatus` changes to `play`
THEN `fully.launchAppPackage('yourApp')`

IF `sonos.playbackStatus` changes to `stop`
THEN `fully.bringFullyToFront()`

I believe the app package for TinyCam Pro is: com.alexvas.dvr.pro

And the app package for TinyCam Free would be: com.alexvas.dvr

S_D · February 24, 2020, 11:29pm

Thanks! So I’m changing the Sage rule to LaunchAppPackage instead of launchURL, but there is no ability to insert the app package name anywhere?

josh · February 24, 2020, 11:37pm

Try opening up the Fully Kiosk Browser Controller device that was created in SmartThings, edit the device preferences, and set the ‘Application to Launch’ to com.alexvas.dvr

Then you should be able to use the launchAppPackage() command without specifying an app name as a parameter.

S_D · February 24, 2020, 11:42pm

Perfect, that works! Curious, there is no way to set a String in the rule engine to do this? Would be awesome if there was, so that one could use it with various apps.

josh · February 25, 2020, 12:57am

It looks like the Device Handler doesn’t define that it accepts a parameter in its metadata even though the command actually does.

The device handler could be updated so that it indicates that it accepts a parameter. To do this on your own, you could edit line 52 and add a single ‘String’ parameter.

Changing it from:

		command "launchAppPackage"

To:

		command "launchAppPackage", ["String"]

After making the change and then saving/publishing it, you would need to reauthorize the device in SharpTools to pull in the latest changes.

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We’ve also noted a potential enhancement - updating the SharpTools Rule Engine to let the ‘Advanced’ toggle forcefully add parameters to devices even if the device doesn’t report that it accepts parameters.

Jason_Carreira · March 23, 2021, 3:00pm

@James 2 questions on this:

1 - How do buttons work in Sharptools? My Ring Doorbell doesn’t have the “button” attribute it has a “pushed” attribute that tells which button number was pushed. This is in Hubitat with the unofficial Ring support. I created a virtual button in Hubitat and it has the same, although you can specify in the settings how many buttons there are so I suppose I could have a rule “push” button 1 and then “push” button 2 so I could see it change in Sharptools, but is there a way to use Hubitat buttons in rules?

2 - On the dashboard you take FKB to on the push, do you have it loading the Ring video doorbell video / image? If so, where do you get the URL for that?

Thanks!

James · March 23, 2021, 3:47pm

You can push your Ring’s physical button and check Hubitat device’ event history to see what value it reported in the pushed attribute, and use pushed as the attribute in the rule trigger with the value you found to trigger the rule when some pushes the Ring’s button.

Unfortunately, Ring doesn’t support RTSP and there is no official way to pull the live stream, so you won’t be able to display the video/image on the dashboard. But the you can have the Fully browser to open the Ring app automatically when someone pushes the button by using the following intent URL. The down side is Ring app doesn’t support redirecting to the specific camera’s view page with the intent URL, so you will have to tap the specific camera to view the video.

Ring intent:#Intent;launchFlags=0x10000000;component=com.ringapp/com.ring.launch.LaunchActivity;end

Rapid Ring
intent:#Intent;launchFlags=0x10000000;component=com.ring.answer/com.ring.answer.presentation.splash.SplashActivity;end

Or you can try another approach described by @Automated_House to use Alexa Routine to show the ring camera on the Fire tablet. You can create a virtual-contact-switch device using the HE community developed device handler, and turn this virtual device to on (open) in the rule, and have the Alexa routine to be triggered by this virtual device. (Alexa routine cannot be triggered by “switch”, but can be triggered by the contact open/close.)

I have other RTSP enabled cameras feeding the live streams to the dashboards via Blue Iris, so my rule was asking FKB to navigate to my “security” dashboard when someone pushes the Ring button.

Michael_Torres · July 15, 2021, 5:19pm

Out of curiosity, How did you get Lobby Dashboard as a device? I’m new to this so I apologize in advance.

James · July 15, 2021, 6:29pm

@Michael_Torres welcome to the community. I use Fully Kiosk Brower to host my dashboards on the Amazon Fire tablet. You can install the community developed Fully Kiosk Browser device handler mentioned in the post below, then create the device (my Lobby Dashboard device) using this device handler.

Here is a video I found based on my quick search for you if you have not installed any custom device handler in SmartThings before.

Let me know if this helps.