Ring Alarm

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Amazon's Ring is releasing an alarm system in just over a week.

  • Ring Alarm, a smarter way to protect your property from the inside out. Get notifications on your smartphone when someone enters a room, opens a window or sets off the siren.
  • Ring Alarm is an affordable solution for comprehensive home security. No long-term commitments or cancellation fees.
  • Easily set up Ring Alarm yourself in minutes, without tools or professional installation.
  • Ring Alarm puts comprehensive home security at your fingertips. Manage Ring Alarm and your other Ring products, all from the free Ring app.
  • Works with selected Alexa devices to arm, disarm and check the status of your Ring Alarm security system with your voice.
  • The 5-piece kit includes a base station, contact sensor, motion detector, keypad, and range extender.
  • Customise Ring Alarm to best fit your property. Add additional Alarm components, such as motion detectors and contact sensors, for comprehensive home protection.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/amazon-rin...h-assisted-monitoring-and-alexa/dp/B07R7DCB8Q

The 5 piece kit comes in at £249 with the ability to add on extras.

Anyone pre-ordered one, or have plans to purchase one?

The pricing seems quite good for this bit of kit, with inexpensive add-ons, each contact sensor costing £29 and each motion sensor costing £39.

I've been slightly put off with the likes of Simplisafe as whilst the kit looks very good and pricing is about on par with Ring, plus they have a few more sensors that can be added (glass-break detection, smoke and flood detection). Simplisafe don't seem to have any plans to provide an API.

Whilst i understand that Ring also don't have a public API, it seems to have a greater community that has focused on reverse engineering to access an unofficial API.

My end goal would be to have it integrated with HomeAssistant. It seems the doorbell has quite a bit of functionality added, and would eventually expect the same for Ring alarm. Whereas Simplisafe seems to lack quite a lot of that functionality.
 
Semple said:
Whilst i understand that Ring also don't have a public API, it seems to have a greater community that has focused on reverse engineering to access an unofficial API.
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Just what you want to enable on your home security system :D

Joking aside, I do like my Ring Pro doorbell and had been looking at the camera/floodlights before...

I've found it hard to justify living in the area I do because crime is so low but that can always change at the drop of a hat!

EDIT: Ugh, more charges on top to support saving video when the alarm sounds. Christ.
 
RoyMi6 said:
Just what you want to enable on your home security system :D

Joking aside, I do like my Ring Pro doorbell and had been looking at the camera/floodlights before...

I've found it hard to justify living in the area I do because crime is so low but that can always change at the drop of a hat!

EDIT: Ugh, more charges on top to support saving video when the alarm sounds. Christ.
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You'd still need to be authenticated to make calls to your own device :)

It would be nice to integrate it cleanly into HA, so you can have a panel that shows you live feeds etc, plus alarm/motion/door sensor statuses. Possibilities are endless.

FWIW i don't find the subscription pricing too bad at all, paying a year upfront makes it £6.66 a month. Which is miles cheaper than Simplisafes system where the basic package is £12-13 a month and has no functionality.
 
I am moving into a new house once competition has been done and will be getting a full ring Setup for CCTV, doorbell and alarm. Equipment isn’t badly priced and the subscription for unlimited devices is very well priced and saves the effort of self storage as I’ve done previously.

I will provide an update once it’s been sorted :)
 
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