MMM-Ring: Displays a video stream of your Ring doorbell when someone rings your doorbell.

[DustinBryant]

You’ll need to install ffmpeg. I’m assuming you’re using a pi with Raspbian. If so, you can run the following in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

If not, you’ll need to find how to install ffmpeg with whatever OS you’re running.

[dwntwn87]

I’m running MM via Docker on a NAS and can’t seem to figure out how to get Docker to use ffmpeg from the OS. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

[sithlordhood]

@DustinBryant Thanks, i have installed but still not working. I get the files in the public folder but still no video

[DustinBryant]

Interesting, are any errors printed in the terminal and if none there, are there any errors in the Electron debugger log after running?

[sithlordhood]

@DustinBryant This is what the mm log shows:

MMM-Ring at (10/10/2019, 20:59:55): Found 1 location(s) with 1 camera(s).
MMM-Ring at (10/10/2019, 20:59:55): Location Home has the following 1 camera(s):
MMM-Ring at (10/10/2019, 20:59:55): - 7076807: Front Door (doorbell_v3)
MMM-Ring at (10/10/2019, 20:59:55): Location Home has the following 0 device(s):
MMM-Ring at (10/10/2019, 20:59:55): Actively listening for doorbell presses

Then i press the doorbell:

MMM-Ring at (10/10/2019, 21:00:04): Front Door had its doorbell rung! Preparing video stream.
MMM-Ring at (10/10/2019, 21:00:26): Front Door video stream has ended
Whoops! There was an uncaught exception…
TypeError: Cannot read property ‘stop’ of null
at Timeout.setTimeout [as _onTimeout] (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Ring/node_helper.js:153:36)
at ontimeout (timers.js:427:11)
at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:289:5)
at listOnTimeout (timers.js:252:5)
at Timer.processTimers (timers.js:212:10)
MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

No video is displayed on the MagicMirror.

Also I have specificed a 2 minute stream time in the config.js but as shown above, the video only shows it runs for 30 seconds…

config.js:

            {
                    module: "MMM-Ring",
                    position: "top_left",
                    config: {
                            ringEmail: "EMAIL",
                            ringPwd: "PASSWORD",
                            ringMinutesToStreamVideo: "2", //default is 2 mins
                            ringVideoWidth: "600" //default is 600px
                    }
            },

[DustinBryant]

Ok, so I 've fixed the error you’ve run into. The reason the stream could have stopped is because someone on the account looked at the ring event on the ring app and then stopped/closed it. Unfortunately, it’s basically a “shared” stream in that if applications are looking at the event at the same time one ended could potentially end the other viewing it prematurely. I’ve only had this happen once and that seemed to be what that was.

I made some other small changes which may help here as well. I’d like for you to update all your software first though just to rule that out as well.

Before doing any of the following I would recommend backing up.

1. Update your pi OS to the latest version
   sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo reboot
2. Update MagicMirror to its latest version by using a Terminal to navigate to your MagicMirror folder and running
   git pull && npm install
3. Navigate to the module/MMM-Ring folder and run
   git pull && npm install

This will update everything, hopefully. Now try running MagicMirror again, giving it a couple seconds to a minute, and then ring your doorbell again.

Hope this helps!

[sdetweil]

@sithlordhood you should use my update script… takes care of a bunch of problems

see here for instructions

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10859/new-update-upgrade-script-ready-for-testing

[sithlordhood]

@DustinBryant Thanks for all of the suggestions, I have followed this and now do not get any errors but i see no video on the mirror!

Anything else i can check?

[DustinBryant]

@sithlordhood this one is a bit tough because I can’t recreate the issue you are having.

We can look at if the video is actually showing anything at all to determine if this is a sip session/ffmpeg issue or an issue on hls hooking into the video control and playing the stream. Try this:

1. Run MagicMirror
2. Minimize it
3. Using file explorer navigate to the MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RING/public/
4. Go ring your doorbell
5. Once a .ts file gets dropped into the public location open/play it. Maybe check a couple as well.

Is there video of your doorbell camera when you play those?

BTW, they will all be like 2 second long videos each. The stream (m3u8) is what ties them into a continuous video by playing them serialized.

[sithlordhood]

Hi, i have tried what you have suggested and a .ts file does get dropped in, I have tried to play it but it does not play, the file size is only 117 bytes.

I have tried this on a complete fresh system, running Raspbian Buster, with the current MM build, also this is the only module i have active in the config file. No video at all is shown on the mirror! help!