ring-hassio

About

A Home Assistant add-on to enable live streams of Ring Cameras. This add-on wraps around Dgreif's excellent work and exposes a livestream.

DOT NOT run this add-on with 24-hour streaming - use this addon by starting it on-demand

Installation

Add this GitHub repository to your supervisor (not HACS) add-on store.
Configure your Ring Refresh Token and port (see configuration below).
Start the "Ring Livestream" add-on. Check for errors in the logs.
For remote access, open up the port in your router.
Open the stream at http://homeassistant.local:port/public/stream.m3u8 to make sure it works before going any further. We recommend using VLC or equivalent.

Add a camera to Home Assistant, such as:

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: Ring Livestream
    stream_source: http://homeassistant.local:port/public/stream.m3u8
    still_image_url: http://homeassistant.local:port/public/stream.m3u8

(Don't worry about the still_image_url not pointing to an actual image, we are not going to use it, but it is required.)

Add a card Picture Glance card to your UI, set the 'Camera Entity` to the camera you have just created.
Done! Enjoy your shiny new livestream!

Configuration

Example configuration:

ring_refresh_token: your_refresh_token
camera_name: Front Door

You need to create a refresh token - see https://github.com/dgreif/ring/wiki/Refresh-Tokens on how to do that. Note that you will have to have node and npm installed on your machine.
The camera name is the name entred when setting up the camera in the Ring app.

Taking a snapshot

Currently the addon does not support taking snapshots, but when it does this is the configuration you will need: In order to use the snapshot service, you will need to following settings in your configuration.yaml:

homeassistant:
  whitelist_external_dirs:
    - /config/tmp

You can then call the snapshot service like this:

service: camera.snapshot
entity_id: [entityID]
filename: tmp/foo.jpg

Some users reported success to create a snapshot using:

  - platform: ffmpeg
    input: http://hassio.local:port/public/stream.m3u8

Battery conservation

A workaround to start/stop streaming (and avoid quick discharge) in Hassio is to start the addon on demand. To do this set up a sensor and switch:

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    resource: "http://hassio.local:port/api/hassio/addons/xxxxxxxx_ringlivestream/info"
    headers:
      Authorization: "Bearer [Long_Lived_Access_Token]"
      Content-Type: application/json
    name: ring_addon_state
    value_template: "{{value_json['data']['state']}}" 
 
switch:
  - platform: template
    switches:
      ring_live_stream:
        value_template: "{{ is_state('sensor.ring_addon_state', 'started') }}"
        turn_on:
          service: hassio.addon_start
          data:
            addon: xxxxxxxx_ringlivestream
        turn_off:
          service: hassio.addon_stop
          data:
            addon: xxxxxxxx_ringlivestream