INSTANTLY Know Who’s at your Door!! (without leaving the couch)
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2020
- INSTANTLY Know Who’s at your Door!! (without leaving the couch)
The Ring Video Doorbell skill can automatically show a live video feed on your Echo Show smart display when your doorbell is pressed. Ring has recently updated this skill and now you can take full advantage of this new feature. It's really just a few steps, so let me show you how to do this.
Ring's skill needs to be installed or enabled on your Alexa application. From there, you can go into Devices, find your #Ring #Video #Doorbell and its settings and turn on a couple of settings. After that, you probably should look at your Do No Disturb feature to stop the Smart Display from ringing in the middle of the night. After that, you're done and your Ring Video Doorbell will #automatically show video on your Echo Show with Alexa on board.
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Brian, Frank, and Larry have been the greatest sources of knowledge during my smart home build process. Another great video , keep it up!
Right!? They're amazing!
Thank you so much for this!! I just followed you step by step and the viola! it works. :) I had been disappointed because I purchased the Echo Show believing I would automatically see who was at the doorbell without having to ask "Alexa show me the front door" and now I can. Again, thank you!!!
You're welcome!! Enjoy!
Now go watch this one, cause life gets EVEN BETTER! ua-cam.com/video/a59SLU3JVQw/v-deo.html
Nice job again, Brian! Kudos to Frank, too. I saw his videos he posted recently and kinda figured you two might end up with something for this channel. I appreciate you both!
I'm just so lucky to have Frank sending me stuff like this! Thanks Hugh!
Thanks for this video very helpful!! I've been trying to get this to work for awhile & now its working. Appreciate tips!!
You're welcome! Thank you!
Brian I absolutely love the device Handler! That is so useful and you gave such concise directions in your words! Anybody can do it! Bravo to you again. Have a great day from Paris Illinois
Glad it was helpful!
Another GREAT tutorial. Concise and to the point. THANK YOU!
You're welcome! Thank you!
Great stuff Brian! I have my setup with my show 5. It also automatically shows up on my Brillant.
Very nice! You have quite the setup Eric!
Great feature to have....nice job of walking us through the easy set-up....Thanks!
You bet! Thanks Frank!
Great Video and very timely and appropriate since I have several Echo devices and two doorbells! Keep up the great work!
Awesome! Thank you Shaft!
WOW!!! Thank you so much,works for me.
Great! Thank you :)
Thanks Brian. Have a good weekend.
Thanks Ron, you too!
Thank you. Just what im looking for.
Great!
Thank you! Very helpful ☺️
Glad it was helpful!
Great Video :) :)
Silly question how long can you set the live view for?
Not a silly question...cause you can't set how long it goes for at all!
Can't wait for this to come to FireSticks & hopefully Kindles too 🤞
Yeah I'm a little surprised actually that you can't. As long as CEC is on...I don't see why they couldn't do this on the Fire Stick.
Brian, thanks for all your coverage. Is it possible to have an instant display on a device (Echo show, Fire HD tablet, etc) from my Ring floodlight camera or my Ring doorbell Pro when motion is detected? If it takes ten seconds to display that would be too long and the visitor/delivery could have already left. Do you have any suggestion as to which device would display automatically and within 1-2 seconds? Or could I set up an Echo Show 15 to display half of the screen dedicated to always showing the front camera? Mike
All of what you're talking about here is based on cloud services and sometimes internal network delays. What you could do to test is to take any streaming and lots of devices off of your WiFi and then try and see how quick it pops up.
Otherwise, you can try other companies' products. I had OK success with my Eufy doorbell, but I think that's cause the feed was local to the hub there.
Instead, get an outdoor motion sensor and bring that up when they start coming up to your door. That's my advice. Think about orientation though!
Thank you so much....was waiting for this......
Most welcome 😊! I hope it is working for you! I saw a message that says it said waiting to connect. Remember that little toggle trick there and if it doesn't work, I'd reach out to Ring or Alexa Support!
@@AutomateYourLife I corrected it....I pressed the doorbell without it detecting motion and got the message waiting for....and then went back to default mode. But when motion is detected it works great... We learn new things everyday!!
Nice review
Is there any other dashboard you recomend with the Eufy doorbell as of 05/11/21?
I would like for everyone in my home to have the option to view and communicate to anyone at the front door way using a dashboard in the hallway. I heard of some people using a tablet.
I dont have a smart home assistant
Just the Ring stuff and the Eufy I've used! Ring is probably best anytime with an Echo Show :)
I'm still debating on whether to get eufy or ring pro since I can wire it at the house I'm moving to. I am going to put up poe cameras so I don't have a subscription like ring, plus better performance. I get mixed reviews of which one works better, even in reviews. The automatically showing up on the echo show is nice, but in reality, I probably won't have very many people at the door.
This is tough...like I can't respond in a comment and give you a good direction.
I feel like Eufy is still a little closed, but I do really like the local storage option
Does the echo have an option for live view when the ring senses motion? Or is only when the doorbell is pressed?
Only when the doorbell is pressed at the moment. It can notify you only now.
Great video man, Is there a way to add a screen to do the same for any doorbell camera to stream immediately after detection as well? I know anything is possible these days so I wonder :)
Yeah most video doorbells that are compatible with Alexa will do this same thing!
Brian, I have Nest Doorbell and an android tv that can be casted to. How could I do that setup with what I have?
Hi Walt - Your Nest Hello Doorbell can do this with Smart Displays! It's a very similar process, but not to an Android TV as far as I know.
Need this for the upcoming WYZE doorbell, and outdoor cam.. both on Google and Alexa
We can hope David! I really have to wonder if the Wyze Doorbell is going to have any options like that. Looks like it could.
Bummer! I have the Eufy wired doorbell and the Alexa app shows the "Announcements & Live View" option in the settings but it doesn't bring up the feed automatically even though my Echo Show is selected and the Doorbell Pres Announcements is turned on. Not sure if that's a Eufy thing or Echo. You'd think if it says so in the options it should work.
Stay tuned, I'm not sure this kind of feature is far off for many doorbells.
Hi Brett, I have the amazon echo 10 (3rd gen) and ring 2 doorbell. when someone press the ring doorbell. The display on echo 10 is for 2 to 3 seconds. how do i increase the timeout?
I don't believe there's a setting here. Check the Motion Announcements though on the Echo 10...sounds like maybe it's not getting through your network quickly enough.
Brett what do you do
Hi I have a question, my Ring camera originally recorded videos around 2-3 minutes long but when I connected my ring to my Echo 8, it started recording videos up to 10 minutes which caused my Ring battery to die even faster. Is there a way that I can change this back to 2-3 minute long videos but still connected to my Echo 8? Thank you
I don't know that I've ever heard of that impact. I'd check with Ring directly
live video takes like 10 seconds to connect on an echo 5, would this be better on newer echo?
It's more likely based on the brand of camera than anything. So not likely. Also could be internal network issue.
Hi All, I have a Ring Doorbell 3 with an Echo Show 8 and have it set up so it comes on the screen when someone presses the Doorbell only but it only shows on the Echo Show 8 screen for like 15 seconds, by the time you get to the screen the live preview is over, is there anyway to extend this? Kind regards
I haven't seen a setting for that to simply change it, BUT...maybe this video will help you? ua-cam.com/video/a59SLU3JVQw/v-deo.html
A+ video, you have me beat in the amount of Amazon devices I have... brb.
ahhahahahahaha! I liked your video too Brett! You beat me in the timeline...by like a month!
Is the Ring video Doorbell 3 Plus supposed to automatically show video when motion is detected or only when someone presses the doorbell?
You want this: ua-cam.com/video/a59SLU3JVQw/v-deo.html
cool content! will this work with my regular ring cams?
There's a few things you can do with regular ring cameras to announce motion (without a sub) or person detection (with a subscription). So yeah :)
Hey Brian, Is this compatible with the wired Ring Video Doorbell or do I need to get a wireless one?
Both wired and wireless Ring Video doorbells are fine. Wired vs Wireless just means it charges through your homes wiring, or not. Not connectivity wise
Brian - My Alexa display 8 doesn't show video after enabling the motion announcements. Audio is fine. I tried the tips you have in you video and it didn't help. Anyone brought up similar issue? I have Ring Pro with current firmware. Any help will be appreciated. Your video was very helpful, thank you.
Hi Ashok, it won't show video on Motion. Only rings! Have you tried that?
@@AutomateYourLife Yes, that works. Thank you!.
HI Brian Great Video here's a good one for you i have the command setup but rather than say home to my echo so i don't see the doorbell can i do a command to make it go home after certain period. If you can answer this will make my day Cheers Mark
Yeah, so add a custom command "Go Home" at the end of your routine. :) Use the Wait feature and wait for 5 minutes or whatever you'd like for a time frame.
Tar Brian Great stuff take care Mark
Yeah I got the same setup but it’s on my fire tv 4K work great 6 second to load up everything
Booyah!
Trying to turn Alexa Guard Mode on/off at certain times of the day using routines. So far only able to turn Guard Mode on. Any suggestions?
Amazon's not giving access to turning that off with routines, so I don't have a good option for you there. Your best option would be tasker to cause button presses in app at a certain time of day.
@@AutomateYourLife Thanks
Good video. How can I make it work on my fire HD10?
Currently only Echo devices with a screen appear to be supported, no Fire TV devices or Fire tablets. To see which devices will work in your home try: Devices- Cameras- "pick your camera"- announcement devices- "look for Live View"
Frank's got this one handled :)
OMG...I had my Blink confused with the Ring you were talking about. It's hell to get old, lol.
My question is now: can a Blink doorbell camera be configured to automatically show who's ringing the doorbell on an Echo Show? Thanks again, and sorry for my self inflicted confusion.
I don't know that actually! Check if in routines you can see your blink doorbell in the when this happens -> smart home section
I think so 😃
@@AutomateYourLife I'll give it a shot....ty
?@@robertbeam8669 did it work
i watched another video and they said they had to say "show me the doorbell"; Which almost turned me away from getting a echo show, as i don't wanna have to say that every time; It will just show the doorbell on the show's without any human input?
Yep! I can do you one better too. Watch this video: ua-cam.com/video/a59SLU3JVQw/v-deo.html
This is great news. I wonder though if it is possible to use this at a remote location? For example, if I have a Ring Doorbell at my office, can I use a Show at home to see alerts when someone is at my office, like the mailman?
There is only one way to find out!
I feel like it'll work, but that's more dependent on the network at your office.
So I bought an Echo Show 5 (slick little device!) and installed it at home, went through this configuration, and now when there is motion or a ring of my Office doorbell at a remote location, my various Echo devices at home announce the motion or ring! That is a huge improvement. But my Show 5 requires that I say "Echo, show Office Doorbell", before it will display the doorbell camera. It will not automatically appear, despite the proper configuration of "Announcements & Live View" for it? Still, this is a huge improvement. Who needs to pay for an alarm now?
is it possible with an iPad and a nest hello doorbell???
I don't believe you get this to happen. Maybe you could look at shortcuts and a notification coming through to bring up the Nest App?
There's also a Starling Hub which would help you bring Nest into HomeKit.
Hi. Using a ring cam (not doorbell), I can get the announcement to come up on the Echo Show 8 screen but it won’t live view afterwards. Is this due to it being a camera (not a doorbell) or am I missing a setting somewhere?? Thanks for any help. Trev
No it should be fine! If it doesn't come up afterwards, maybe put a "wait" command into your routine for a few seconds.
Also, just try and get it without the announcement first. Get that live view working first as it's the biggest hit to your home's network.
Test out and see how long the live view takes to come up too. If it's any longer than 5 seconds, your network or maybe even the transfer of recordings out at the same time is causing it not to work.
@@AutomateYourLife If I use a routine the Echo show 8 is greyed out and listed under unsupported devices. In the camera setting I can choose the echo show 8 for announcements and live view but it only announces. I’m lost.
Would you guys be able to show us how to do this on a Home Hub?
If you have a Nest Hello, yep! Not with a Ring. Is that what you're asking?
I hate to be an disruptor but what about wyze cam? RTSP or whatever? Sorry I’m learning.
Disrupt away Marty!
I like Wyze Cam but they don't auto display on anything at the moment. RTSP can be configured through a few systems to have some auto-recording or auto-display but that's a very different type of system. This is more for the average person!
@@AutomateYourLife 😂😂I'm more of the below average person ! But I am getting there. With your help. Thanks again.
Hi Brian, does the echo show 8 automatically turn on screen when motion is sensed? and let's say you are not anywhere close to the echo show at that moment, how long will the ring doorbell and echo show stays on? will it go on forever and depletes your ring doorbell battery? thank you
It's a 5 minute cooldown on any video feed on the Amazon Smart Displays, so it won't kill your battery too bad.
As for it coming on, yep!
Hi Brian, is there a way to connect the Ring doorbell to a Schlage encode lock here in Canada?
So...not directly. You'd have to explain what you'd like to have happen :)
@@AutomateYourLife Schlage is now in partner with Ring doorbell and says that we can now unlock the door thru the Ring apps, but can't find a way to do it, and said I need to use amazon key, but we don't have that here.
Ohhhhh! Ok so that's direct and I do think you'd have to have Key available. I'd chat with Schlage on that briefly
@@AutomateYourLife Thanks for the help..
On the echo show 8, it does not show the person at the door in full screen. It shows it screen and screen mode only.
Must be a new setting there. Odd.
anyone know if this will work the same way with Ring cameras? Thanks!
There's no doorbell, so sorry. :(
@@AutomateYourLife thank you for your reply! I mean, could we use the "Motion Announcement" to activate Echo Show's live view for the Ring Cameras (Spotlight, Floodlight)?. Thanks!
Any way for the Echo Show to automatically display when motion is detected?
Sadly, no. It will announce, but not auto display. This is a major request though, so I'd bet they're looking at it.
There is a workaround... if you are willing to use a Echo Dot to speak the "Alexa, show me the door bell camera" command to the Echo Show via an Alexa Routine
I've got a ring pro 2 and an echo show 10 and i can't get this stupid thing to work. It shows "live view not supported on this device"
That's very odd. Not sure why, but I'd suggest talking to Amazon support.
I’m having trouble connecting my ring doorbell with my google home. Any tips? I did a google search and it’s supposed to be able to connect, no luck yet 😑
I don't think that's gonna work. Ring is Amazon and there's no Ring integration that I know of
Hey friend. I have 3 Harmony Hubs now, I can link one to the Google assistant, and one to IFTTT, for voice assistance. But I can't get my 3rd Harmony Hub to work *BY VOICE* even with IFTTT. I just ordered a Samsung Smartthings Hub, so I'm hoping that would help me. Do you think that would help me get voice assistance on my 3rd hub? Any ideas 💡 🤔?
You can do it with your SmartThings Hub :)
You can run activities through SmartThings, therefore you'll be able to trigger them a few ways with Google/Voice.
@@AutomateYourLife Thanks, for *taking the frustration out of my automation.*
@@PhillyDjHook I hope we get it solved sir!
@@AutomateYourLife It arrives this Wednesday, June 10th. I'll keep you posted. Thanks.
Can Ring work with Nest hub?
Not like this, sadly.
Is this for any ring doorbell or just the pro?
Hi Lisa - Although I haven't been able to test this with all versions of the cameras, I see absolutely NO evidence of restrictions on any Ring Video Doorbell device. I believe you could use any and have this work, but I can't be sure of that right now. This is a fairly new feature, so I hope you understand. Here are some links though:
support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/208144516-Using-Live-View - Says any Ring device
www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=help_search_1-1?ie=UTF8&nodeId=GPYACUWJQ6DEYJ2F&qid=1591364356&sr=1-1 - Actually only mentions compatibility for Echo Show and Echo Spot, which leads me to believe other makers will be able to do this very soon.
I can't find any specific mention of which Ring Doorbell models work, get here is a general Ring Alexa list support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031246412-Ring-Supported-Alexa-enabled-Devices
I need Ring Doorbell on Android Sony TV! (With Google Assistant)
I'd bet Live View goes to Fire TV Sticks and Cubes pretty quickly Andrew. Stay tuned and I'll let you know on an Alexa update when I see that!
On my Samsung QLED TV with SmartThings, I get a video popup & notification from camera motion, but its one-way only... meaning I can't speak to the person at the camera
You could dedicate an old Android phone or tablet to Chromecast to the TV. Note that the device has to have the Ring app open and in the foreground to automatically go full screen on a doorbell press. Or, if you know the Tasker app, here is a way around have the app open www.reddit.com/r/Ring/comments/al83vm/diy_ring_doorbell_monitordisplay/
Leave link so people know what to buy
can I do this w/ iPad?
Not as far as I've seen
Hey my nan has recently bought both the ring door bell and portal how ever while setting them up to show live feeds I can’t find the announcement devices. Time stamp 2:05
In any camera or Doorbell, you'll find the Announcement Devices in the settings of the device. So find the device (camera/doorbell) in the Devices Page of the Alexa app. You'll see the gear icon when you tap into the camera/doorbell and the announcement devices are in there.
However, if you're using a Facebook Portal, that's not going to work. This is with an Amazon Echo Show.
@@AutomateYourLife thank you for clearing that up for me 👍🏻👍🏻😁
So this will not show video on motion detected?
It will not, no :(
Can you talk to the person at the doorbell through the echo show?
Depends on which one you use, but when you bring up the feed on some doorbells, yes that option exists. Nowadays you can have the doorbells display automatically anyways and it does work
I followed the steps and it does show the video, but the video is not on full screen, did I miss something?
Sounds like maybe the camera you have specifically. You didn't do anything wrong. I'd check in with your manufacturer on that one.
How can i set to auto display on my phone?
You could try shortcuts on an iPhone and tasker on Android
@@AutomateYourLife weird because on my s21 it at one time it automatically did it on its own when I changed something for live view & now I have the 23 & it doesn't do it not sure what setting I hit to get it to do that , didn't have to use an additional app
I'm going to wait until I see what Wyze offers in a doorbell camera. I need battery operated as there are no doorbell wires here. I don't want to pay subscriptions either. But having a picture come up on my screen (Google or Alexa) without putsching a button or saying anything would be nice.
I think that's fair. I have the Eufy one right now and it is no subscriptions and battery or wired! I think Wyze will do a very similar thing, but have an option for subscription/cloud based recordings.
what about google using a hub or smarthings
Not Google, but you could push from. SmartThings to Alexa and get the display to show cameras
How do you hook it up by hardwiring it. I saw vid where Casey Neistat uses a Go Pro camera and a 50" t.v he leaves on all the time. That's how he see who comes to the door. Not explained how to do it.
That's different per video doorbell. This video just shows you how to get the notices.
cAN YOU USE THIS ON 2 SHOWS AT THE SAME TIME?
I don't think so Richard, but I haven't tried! It seemed like I could populate all my Live View devices.
I did exactly what you did and my echo isn’t going live when someone pressed the ring doorbell
So this can happen every so often if your WiFi's not up to the job of reporting the press. Are you getting notices from the notification side when it happens?
Wait! I watched and followed along this to find out how to automatically show doorbell video on Alexa Show when the doorbell is pressed. You demonstrated it at the end of the video but didn't talk about the 'extra' setting to make it work. Sorry but I don't know Frank to see what he's done.
I thought I showed all the settings during the video Mike?
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😁😁😁👍👍👍..nice
Many many thanks!
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Yup
Unfortunately it isn't working for me. I have it set up exactly how you have and I neither get notifications or automatic live view when someone rings the doorbell. The only thing I can do is ask Alexa to show me the front door and then it does give me a live view.
This device is driving me insane. I'm certainly not the only person with the problem, their skill reviews are covered with complaints about it not working.
Not too many folks have had problems with this part of it. Sad....
@@AutomateYourLife After more research it seems the problem may stem from having multiple echo shows in the house that use different alexa accounts. The solution may be to set up an alexa household instead. I will look into it more tomorrow and see if it solves the issue.
Do you need alexa for this? What about Google home?
Can't do it yet with most doorbells on Google Home. Just Nest Video Doorbells
Any idea if this is coming to Google Home?
Through the Ring Doorbell...I wouldn't expect that anytime soon. This is actually much more based on Alexa then it is Ring and Google hasn't opened up their platform this way.
Still, we're waiting on Google Home Routines that allow us to trigger devices, so...when that happens all of this could become available.
@@AutomateYourLife Google and Amazon are competitors, so I wouldn't expect any cooperation soon.
My echo show tells me that the camera is not responding. Neither Rudy nor Amazon hotline could help…
I assume you mean Ring. It sounds like maybe your WiFi might be letting you down. Can you get the camera to show up on your smart display at all? If not, we gotta start there.
Mine doesn’t work and I’ve done everything 😢
You know, I've been having trouble with Alexa routines off of these types of events for a week now. I think something's been broken for some.
I have the Lenovo M10 Tablet/Alexa show device and I haven’t been able to get this to work,
Yeahhhh...that's not an Echo Show! Sorry. It's a Lenovo :)
What LCD panel is this?
It's an Echo Show
You should blur your home address. Great video! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for pointing that out. :)
Can’t wait until someone figures out how to show a RTSP stream automatically like this. I am using monocle to view my RTSP on my echo screen but don’t have a way to automatically pull up the feed when my camera detects motion. I have to verbally tell Alexa to show front door. If anyone has a way to send that command to Alexa automatically please let me know! Not interested in paying monthly subscriptions.
That's an interesting problem...you need a processor of some kind in order to do it. I figure Wyze could actually do it right now, and most of these companies could...but that would give away lots of power to us DIY folks.
hi. can eufy do the same..
The ones I've had could, but I don't have one anymore.
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I think YT has been having issues. Try again!
great video Brian, any ETA on the motion video becoming visible?
What is an ECHO SHOW?
It's a smart display with Amazon Alexa on it!
@@AutomateYourLife What is a smart display?
Alexa has so muhch power but its shamlefull the amount of apps by companies are like 2 to 3 stars rated such poor design and combersom
You know...I feel like most people just rate poorly on that store and don't rate when things work. Cause why would we return to a skill or app page when it works?