I created a 3rd party module called MMM-Ring. It is for MM owners who have a ring device that whenever the doorbell is activated the video is streamed to the mirror. This works on my end with no issues. However, I have at least one person stating they get either no video or the video is frozen almost as if its just a snapshot.

I had them check to make sure the stream data is being saved (.m3u8 and .ts files) and it is. I’m thinking this is a latency related issue tied to internet connectivity. I thought by making the -preset option on ffmpeg to ultra fast perhaps we could reduce down the size of the files generated for stream, but it only showed minor improvement on the end users side.

Hoping someone with more experience in streaming could potentially add some guidance/assistance.

https://github.com/DustinBryant/MMM-Ring/issues/1

Thanks in advance!

@buzzkc glad to hear it worked for you!

For that functionality you may want to look at the ring-client-api and more specifically ring-camera.getSnapshot(). Though, I would say if you did implement this please make it optional via parameter on the config (default false) and add another parameter for the config that lets you use the camera name to which to show the snapshot for.

I’m not personally looking for a snapshot to always be available as I only really care for the video stream when someone rings the doorbell. Also, the picking of the camera name for the snapshot would be important for those individuals who have multiple ring devices and may just want to direct which camera to use snapshots for.

@Fr8Trayne I haven’t tested it today. I’ll be able to in the next couple hours. I do know the Ring app for Android is giving me a lot of issues today so it could possibly be on Ring’s side.

In the console.log (terminal) I do display what Ring devices you have so hopefully that lists appears for you when you started MM.

Does your terminal where you run MM from display any errors?

If none there, could you run MM in dev mode “npm start dev” and see what errors appear in the console of the dev screen?

EDIT: I just tested it and everything worked fine. I’m curious what errors you are getting.

@Bugsounet this looks pretty cool! My next project to work on is setting up motion detection using PIR. This looks like it is on the right track as to what I’m looking for. I don’t know anything about PIR yet and interfacing with pi so I need to get caught up with functionality first. What I do know is that I will be adding multiple PIR sensors (one on each side and a front facing one).

Is it possible you could adapt this to allow multiple sensorPins that you monitor for?

If not, whenever I get to buying the PIR’s and working with them I may just submit a merge request with that functionality change at that time if you’re open to contributions.

Better late than never!

I just released MMM-Ring which provides a live video whenever someone rings your ring doorbell. No plans for anything else as this met all my needs. Also, only have a doorbell and not all the other Ring products. Though, it is now public so if someone wants to extend the functionality they can have at it!

https://github.com/DustinBryant/MMM-Ring

Description
Whenever someone rings your doorbell by pressing the button on your ring device, a video will appear wherever the module is placed within MM. This module will only work for ding events and will not do anything for motion events. Whenever there is no video being displayed nothing else is shown in its place.

https://github.com/DustinBryant/MMM-Ring

This is now public and available https://github.com/DustinBryant/MMM-Ring

So, as of a couple days ago I’ve been working on this exact thing. I have it almost completely working on my end. However, it isn’t ready for public consumption since I had to make changes to some of the existing MagicMirror code for ease. I could make it publicly available but wanted to gauge interest first.

Your requirements or expectations of this type of module may be different than mine, so I’m going to share what it will do and you can tell me if you are interested in it. I don’t plan on doing anything beyond what I detail below but if I make it public, potentially other people could contribute to give it more features you may want.

Details
Config requirements (similar to all other module configs):

1. Ring username
2. Ring password
3. 2fa Ring refresh token (optional)

Functionality:
Whenever someone rings your doorbell by pressing the button on your ring device, a video will appear wherever the module is placed within MM. It will show the video for approximately 2 minutes. Once that time has elapsed, the video will disappear. This module would only work for ding events and will not do anything for motion events. Whenever there is no video being displayed nothing else is shown in its place.

Potential cons:

• Only works with someone ringing your doorbell (no motion events).
• There is a slight unavoidable delay (couple seconds) with the videos.
• In your ring app, all of these events will show as answered rings. This may get fixed in the future.
• You will not be able to interact, talk with, or hear the person on the other end through MM.

Still interested or have questions?