Show ring camera on dash

Unfortunately, the SmartThings integration only exposes some of the attributes of the device (like motion), but not the video feed.

And since Ring doesn’t have an open API, there isn’t an official way of embedding the video stream directly into your dashboard. That being said, some people use an alternative approach with AutomateIt (or Tasker) to automatically bring up the Ring app when motion is detected.

From what I understand, it’s two rules that get setup in AutomateIt:

  • Rule 1: When Ring Notification is Received → Open the Ring App
  • Rule 2: When Ring Notification is Received → Open Fully Kiosk Browser, delayed by 1 minute

Another approach that we’ve seen used when you only want a doorbell stream to show up when the doorbell is pressed is documented in the following post:

It uses a doorbell sensor to detect the button press and uses that event to open the app.

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