Auto Live View On Your TV & Amazon Fire Devices For Ring, Blink, Arlo, Wyze when Motion Is Detected
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- Today, is a part 2 video on the Auto Live View routine in the Amazon Alexa app so that your Ring, Blink, Arlo and Wyze WIFI cameras will stream the footage automatically to your Amazon Echo Show devices and also now on your TV using the Fire TV stick and even your Amazon Fire tablets.
One of the issues in my previous video is the timeout time especially with battery powered WIFI cameras. During my testing, different brands and models of WiFi cameras have different timeout times from 1 minute to 20 minutes...ironically, the longer timeout times are mostly battery powered cameras. Today, I'll show you an additional routine that you need to do so that you can stop the streaming of the camera in a time that you set and you don't have to worry about the battery life on your cameras.
I will also demo in this video how this routine works with streaming to your TV using Amazon Fire TV stick and Fire tablets.
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00:00 Introduction
01:15 Brands that have full Amazon Alexa integration
01:52 Other devices that works with the Auto Live View Routine
02:20 Timeout issue
02:57 Solution for the Long Timeout issue
03:09 Setting up Auto Live View and Timeout routine
05:19 Auto Live View when motion is detected and Timeout routine demo
06:10 Amazon Fire TV Auto Live View and Timeout demo
07:53 Amazon Fire TV stick demo of auto streaming when motion is detected
09:20 Thoughts on the Ring Pro using this routine
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I just picked up a refurbished Echo Spot just so I can do this. Thanks for the most comprehensive and concise reviews and how-to videos always! Best UA-camr for smart home devices hands down!
Thank you, this worked perfectly! I also made a routine for when someone presses the doorbell and a timout for that as well, just as a back up. Your video was much more helpful than Ring's own forums.
Thanks a lot for all , i have one questions , does this way works with eufy camera ?
Great video LH, I'll be installing a Doorbell 4, a spotlight cam and 2 stick-up cams, so this is super-helpful, especially about setting up the stop routines, that never occuredd to me!
Set this second routine up for my echo show 8 (second gen) and my ring stick up cam with actions wait and stop and ended up with a minimized view of the camera but it was still running for 10 minutes or so. Any updates or ideas would be appreciated.
Works great!!! Thanks for this.
You are welcome.
Hi LifeHackster, thanks for the very informative video. FYI, you said that you can not stream automatically to two Echo devices at the same time using a Ring camera. There is a way around this. So... for your first Echo device create the detection routine just like you said. For the next device, create the same routine but insert a short delay (5sec wait) before the custom ‘show ring camera’ instruction. You see, you can stream to multiple devices if you ask (speak to alexa) directy. But Alexa will not issue the same command to multiple devices at the same time, so the by inserting the 5sec delay to the second device, ... its the same instruction, .... at a different time. Problem solved. (Kinda)
Hi James,
I tried your suggestion above and used 2 routines for each device (1 trigger & 1 timeout). However, the out timeout on 2nd device doesn’t work. Any idea how I could fix this?
Great information just what I was looking to do for my home.. Setup Fire8 HD at my front door work beautiful
Thank you for update !!
Great video! Can this work with the reolink Argus eco camera? Thanks!
Sucks that it doesn't always work on multiple echo shows. I have one in the living room and one in the bedroom, and had to set a routine schedule for them not to run at the same time. Amazon really should improve the system to allow it across all devices simultaneously.
nice video thanks for the tutorial
You are welcome.
This is great content ! I did notice on the newer Firestick 4k Max devices the “go home” command will bring it back to picture in picture and still leave the camera streaming I had to add an additional routine and give it five more seconds to cancel picture in picture so it would finally go home and stop streaming. The command was “Tell Alexa to stop picture in picture on Fire TV “
Hi! May I ask, so you did 3 routines in total ya? 1st is when motion is detected show camera. 2nd is wait 30 seconds, go home. Then how about 3rd routine? How do I add extra 5 seconds on top of 30 seconds ya?
FINALLY I can customize where Amazon didn't think that I wanted to.
Thank you for this info. Very useful. How can I have the firestick return to what I was watching on the firestick instead of going to the home page after showing the ring camera? Is there a resume command that can be used after setting the wait time? Thanks!
I think you press the return button or the back button
Timeout not working for me on my Echo Show 5. Update, I had changed the wake word, changed back to Alexa and all is good. Thanks for another good video.
I like this for possibly being woken up at night by a Ring alarm (or just a Ring sensor). It would be great to just look at an Echo show on the bedside table to see what’s up. A question - can you have the Echo show resting screen to be completely dark during normal sleep hours? I am just installing a Reolink NVR and PoE cams for history without a subscription. I see the your Echo Show as a great complimentary system. I have Hoobs seeing all the Ring sensors so plan on turning Homekit controlled lights on an alarm condition too.
I have a fire hd 10.can I put ring app on there? If tablet screen is off will a motion sensor take me to a live video automatically?
thank u very helpfull
Off topic but, what WiFi system are you using? I’m having issues with wyze cams and ring doorbell, I have very fast mesh wifi
Hi LifeHackster, your videos are awesome, thank you! You mention that the ring WiFi cams (wired and wireless) can only show life view for 10 till 20 mins. Why is that? We have a child with special needs and recently he started to have seizures. So now we are interested in having permanent live views of some of our wired ring indoor cams. Do you know of a way to get around the 10 minute cutoff time, to have a permanent live view? Or should we purchase another system to accomplish this?
Great video! I needed some advice..
Here are my 3 scenarios
1. I wish to use something like an Arlo Video Door Bell and I want it to show up immediately on my fire HD 8+ (show mode), is this possible? I noticed the lag, will Echo Show be a better alternative to the FireHD 8+ tablet? I will need the 2 way audio feature too
2. I wish to use an Ecobee SmartCamera or Arlo Baby Monitor and I want it to immediately show up on my FireHD 8+ Tablet as soon as it senses motion? Will this work on the tablet or is Echo Show a better alternative. I will need 2 way audio feature too.
3. I wanted to use the FireHD 8+ tablet in Show Mode but this time to view recipes on the UA-cam App by reconfiguring the FireHD Tablet to support Google Playstore. If I do this, can the above 2 scenarios be supported using this Fire HD 8+
Appreciate your advice, thanks
Does ist work with Eufy cameras too?
Nice video which i have used on my arlo pro. However im on a smart subscription plan and only setup to get notifications on my phone for people, vehicles and animals. Is there a way to only get this routine set up for that rather then all motions. This routine activates for all motion regardless which can be a little annoying.
is there a way for the fire stick to show the live ring camera view if it was on a different HDMI source, or does the HDMI source have to on the fire stick
hey lifehackster? question
can you view ring (2nd gen ) to a vizio smart tv both on the same network?
Amazing! Just a tip, you only have the options to do this on the phone. Tried on PC and Fire Tablet and the Customize menu is not there.
Thank you.
You are welcome.
Is there a routine that you have to show all the cameras you have in sequence?
Could you just add the Wait 1 minute and then Go Home command to the end initial routine instead of having to make a second routine for Timeout ?
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Works great! Thank you. The only thing I don’t like is that Alexa will keep saying “Okay” before live view, anyway to turn it off? I enabled brief mode but I doesn’t work.
What about TVs with Alexa built-in? Do you still need a Fire Stick to integrate with an echo device to stream video on the TV and echo device?
I appreciate your videos, but in this case, would suggest yet another modification to the routine to make it work with the Fire TV...at least both of mine. You suggest "Go home" in the second script, but if you're watching TV and it executes it will do exactly that, it will go to the Home screen, but not to the programming you were watching before the camera view triggered. Instead use the simple "Stop" command which will then return to the program you were previously watching.
thank you!!!
Great video I have it on my show 5 and 8
Cool.
Does it stream simultaneously to both Show products simultaneously?
Great Video: I have a slight twist. I would like to have an indoor sensor detect a hand wave or some other motion and show me what is on the outside camera. We have a location with no visibility to the outside and would like to see what is on the other side of the door for peace of mind when exiting. Stream to a fixed indoor device. TV with Amazon Fire stick would work. How would you automate that?
Also good to set a routine to announce that motion was detected
If you have another app open on your Fire TV. Say netflix or hulu and someone rings doorbell. Can you create an automation to interrupt app and show doorbell cam?
This is great, However I live in flats where there is a large footfall. I've tried to do this with My Arlo doorbell for when doorbell is pushed but it doesn't want to know.
Not sure if already commented but is there any reason why you wouldn’t just include the Wait sub routine in the same process? So have it look for motion, show the camera, wait 15s and then go home, all in one? Any reason for adding a separate routine for wait and go home commands?
Great video, as always 👍🏾
So there's no way for the video alert to show on multiple devices? 😥
Very interesting and useful. I tried setting a routine for an Arlo Essential Pro. It worked, but only occasionally. Not consistently which is confusing. Ideas?
Yes..that is why I noticed with the newer Arlo essential series.. their Arlo Pro 3 and Ultras are more reliable..I guess Arlo needs to fix some bugs on their newer cameras (it happens all the time BtW with Arlos)
@@LifeHackster Thanks. Guess I’ll put up with it for a while and see what happens. I also cannot seem to make Alex-A announce that there is motion detected. Instead, she only says ‘Ok’ which I assume is in response to the command to show the Essential Pro. Maybe I missed something in the routine setup??
thank u im trying the live video echo show 5 aand the tv thanks
Can you please show me how to link my xtu j7 plus to my echo show 5 2nd gen?
Is there a way to do this on any other tablets with Reolink cameras
with the firetablets, it only works for usa amazon accounts i think, if u got alexa canada on the tablet showmode will NOT work
Fire TV Cube supports Picture in picture (PIP) with the ring doorbell, so the video feed will show up as a small box on the corner of the screen while you watch tv
Any idea what happens with the Fire TV stick? Would be pretty annoying to get interrupted while watching a movie
Cool.. I have to check it out. And yes, I’m not really going to set it up on my TV..just a bit too long to stream and a lot of what if’s...what if the TV is off? What if you are in a different input etc..I guess you can add a routine for it but there will be too long of a delay.
@@LifeHackster hey brother I need to be come your student
@@LifeHackster Great learning video! You said: "what if the TV is off?" My experience with the verbal command "Alexa, show me the (name I give camera)" is that it automatically turns my TV and Fire Cube on and then calls up the camera view so I assume it would turn the TV on if you included it in your (very clever) Routine as well. Also, full screen display on the Fire Cube is the default option. PIP requires a second voice command.
WYZE working ok on Alexa devices (show and fire TV for me) but not working on newer fire tablets (new HD 10). It appears it's not just me having this problem.
Nice video.
No video on wyze doorbell yet ?
Very clear video
Amazing that end of 2022 it's still a 'hack' to make something so basic to work, especially with camera with label "works with alexA"
And amazing the latency that we have on those camera
Technology is not yet on top of what it should be
Is there a way to set a time-out for a Ring camera?
can the Amazon stick detect ring door bell camera sound when the tv is off?
This only works with the routine... will it record when using the TV.or tablet or not... How about the wifi when ur away...Is the coverage good?
Thanks so much for this -- got it working on my HD 8+, but for the LOVE OF GOD, can I make Alexa NOT say "OK" every time the camera is triggered? And brief mode and turning the volume down do not help.
If you're watching tv on your firestick, will the notification shut off the tv show to view the camera when it recieves a motion?
Yes, it will.
Can the Echo Show have a dark screen before being woken by this? And, if so, can it return to a dark screen afterwards?
I wish the Echo Cube had an input, and could do picture in PiP, so I can watch my cable box, or anything else, and have camera video pop up on my TV screen, but not take over the entire screen. I’m looking at getting an HDMI switch that can do PiP, so I can plug the output of my main AV receiver into input 1, plug a Fire TV stick into input 2, and have the trigger fire up the video on the Fire TV Stick, and use my Harmony Hub to trigger the switch to turn on and off the PiP.
I need a good plug in transformer for the eufy doorbell 2k. I bought one on Amazon but a week later it is dead again. I know you are the pro so who better to ask. I hope you can help. Thank you!
I use the Wasserstein brand.
@@LifeHackster Do you have a resistor on it or just directly to the cable?
Direct cable connection.
Nice thumbnail
Thanks.
What fire stick do you have?
Old 2017 model.
two-way talk on the firestick you can do just by holding the microphone button down
Cant get no pictures on the echo show 5 in the mobile app😢 sayings live its available at this time try later with and black screen please help
How can I setup ring to show on Firestick Tv
Thanks
how do you get fire tablet and fire tv to show up as a device in alexa app?
Following
@@LosAngelos88 i think if they are registered to the same Amazon account then they should come up under the device tab.
We Like Arlo Pro Cameras?
I get video for about 1 second then it goes black. Sound is still active though, no idea how to fix it. What’s strange is it only does this when I use a voice command to open it.
I have the ECHO SHOW 5 and I can view my Doorbell on it.
Cool...
will it auto show it if someone presses the ring button on the doorbell? only if u have the ring brand!
@@kleptodathief3946 like with the Arlo and the only option for Eufy doorbells, the trigger can be a doorbell press.
Thanks a million man, I have been trying to do this for months and finally found your video!!!
I can confirm that Alexa Screen will announce a visitor from the doorbell ring on a blink doorbell, and will show the doorbell camera
I tried this with Reolink Doorbell and it doesn't work. Can you please make a video with Reolink?
that 'timeout' routine might not be usefull if u want to continue watching the stream? say someone is loittering around your front door/yard and u wanna keep an eye on them!
When your camera notifies you again because motion persists...(cool off time), it will trigger the routine again..which in most cameras, less than a minute..so the stream will be cut off and re-stream again.
I'm using the EUFY 2K BATTERY DOORBELL (wired) with LIVE VIEW (on doorbell press) with the ECHO SHOW. EUFY fails miserably in their implementation with ALEX-A because it stops recording when Live View is activated. This means that when you are not home and someone presses the doorbell, the ECHO SHOW will load Live View and force the recording to stop. If you don't look immediately at your phone, you have no recording of the event either. For this reason, the EUFY doorbell integration with ALEX-A is NOT a good idea. EUFY needs to allow for continued recording even when Live View is activated. EUFY FAIL.
Good to know. I was thinking about sending the Ring bell back and trying the Eufy.
I did each step and my ring doorbell isn’t going automatically live on my echo show
Whats that „Ahhhh“-Sound at 8:45 🤣
Why can’t you just add a wait action under the same routine?
Can’t get blink to show any video on echo show based on motion or doorbell ringing. So frustrating.
Now show a video on how you made all those routines 🤨🤨🤨
Which app are you using?🧐
Alexa App.
I used your tutorial and it worked but how do you shut off the Alexa echo show from talking every time it triggers.. I would rather it be a silent action, is this even possible?
Yes... go to your camera's settings in the Alexa app (Device List), then turn off "motion announcements". If you are talking about when she say "OK", before streaming..then go to your alexa settings-> voice responses and toggle "brief mode" to ON.
Hi I tried this and it's still making the announcements. My wife is mad...lol
@@LifeHackster brief mode removed the “ok” response from my echo dots but can’t get it to stop on firestick 4K. Any ideas?
20 second delay to hit the fire tv stick. Unusable, what a bummer.
:D
Can't wait to do this with the new doorbell wired that is set to release on February 24th, and it's on my birthday!
Cool.. I did pre-ordered one too..
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