Ring doorbell 3.

delboy154 · 11 Dec 2020 at 16:12

Hi I'm new to the forum so I hope this is the correct one. I wonder if anyone can help? When my ring doorbell rings, my TV is changing channels to my amazon firestick. Does anybody know how to stop this please? It has only recently started doing it. Thanks
Derek.

R.P.L · 11 Dec 2020 at 16:17

I've got no idea how to fix that. Out of interest, how did you end up choosing this forum to ask that question on?

Junglist · 11 Dec 2020 at 16:20

R.P.L said:
I've got no idea how to fix that. Out of interest, how did you end up choosing this forum to ask that question on?

To be fair it is technology related. I've seen people sign up on these forums to ask much more off field questions

Moothead2 · 11 Dec 2020 at 16:21

Look for 'HDMI-CEC' in your TVs settings and turn it off if it's enabled. Might be a similar setting on the firestick itself too.

R.P.L · 11 Dec 2020 at 16:25

Junglist said:
To be fair it is technology related. I've seen people sign up on these forums to ask much more off field questions

Yeah fair enough. It just seemed like the most recent in a long line of random first posts

delboy154 · 11 Dec 2020 at 16:29

Thanks for the answers guys, in reply to RPL. I googled forums for ring doorbell after getting nowhere with ring and this was the first one to come up. Sorry if I've came onto the wrong one.

Pho · 11 Dec 2020 at 16:34

Have you got Alexa integration set-up with it? I wonder if the Firestick is trying to display the Ring video feed when it detects someone.

Thekwango · 11 Dec 2020 at 16:38

delboy154 said:
Thanks for the answers guys, in reply to RPL. I googled forums for ring doorbell after getting nowhere with ring and this was the first one to come up. Sorry if I've came onto the wrong one.

it's cool.....you've come to the right place, despite the first reply. OcUK forums are like google - what can't be answered on here isn't worth asking anyway

General Discussion (GD) is however a hot bed of lunatics who are more likely to berate and abuse you as help

Home & Garden Sub forum might have been the safer place to post - i imagine a mod may well move the thread for you shortly. but stick around though, there's a plethora of different sub forums - don't be a post and run member!! and don't be put off by GD

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/community/home-and-garden.151/

delboy154 · 11 Dec 2020 at 16:40

Yeah I have, its only just started doing this. It worked no bother in the past, just linking with my alexa now it wants to connect to the firestick too, funnily enough for the video so your right. I've just disabled the skill on the Alexa app and that appears to have stopped it however it was handy getting the alarm from my Alexa as well. I'll just have to play about with it and see what I can come up with.

Abyss · 11 Dec 2020 at 17:24

You can tell Alexa which devices to link with your Ring Doorbell. If you go to the device section of the Alexa app, navigate to your doorbell and under announcements there's a section called "Announcement Devices". Go into that and untick your firesticks and only tick the devices that you want to use to tell you someone is at the door.

delboy154 · 11 Dec 2020 at 17:43

Thanks Abyss, it worked perfectly.

SexyGreyFox · 12 Dec 2020 at 16:19

delboy154 said:
Thanks for the answers guys, in reply to RPL. I googled forums for ring doorbell after getting nowhere with ring and this was the first one to come up. Sorry if I've came onto the wrong one.

Probably because in the last two weeks I've mentioned mine about 4 times

I don't have your problem.

Ring have their own useful Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/RingUK/