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[How-to] Add your Ring Doorbell to the Fibaro HomeCenter


Joep

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Is it allowed to post an integration to Home Center with third party support tools? I hope so, because this is awesome!

 

My goal: Show the latest ringer at my front door in the Fibaro Home Center App when using my Ring Doorbell.

The Challenge: Ring.com has no official API and snapshots are not possible at the moment. Fibaro does not support Ring Doorbell and Home Center and LUA code is not able to download a video and extract a frame from it.

How I fixed it? I run a Node-RED box on (Debian) Linux. I installed Python with the 

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to download the latest ringer video and ffmpeg to create a snapshot image. I use Node-RED to serve this snapshot with HTTP to the Home Center. You can also use NGINX, Apache or whatever webserver you like!

 

This post is for experienced users, I skip a lot Linux stuff. A more detailed approach is on my website (see my signature).

 

1. Install Python, pip and ffmpeg (of not already present) on your Linux (Raspberry/NUC/etc..) box:

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2. Install the

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:

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3. Create a folder and download my

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 script to it:

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4. In the script you have to edit the following lines with your own (login) information:

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5. Now run the file. You can run it as a service, but that is out of the scope of this topic.

 

6. Serve the snapshot with Node-RED to the Home Center.
Add the following node to Node-RED and edit the path of the file node to the path of the last_ding.jpg snapshot. If you want to use another webserver configure it to serve the snapshot:

 

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/monthly_2019_04/ringdoorbellnode.jpg.d4367fa838b285b59b968c14721722e9.jpg" style="width:750px;height:auto;" />

 

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7. Add a new camera in Fibaro Home Center 2:

 

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8. Give the camera a useful name and change the advanced settings to the following settings:

 

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  • IP address: node-red ip address:port
  • JPG path: last_ding.jpg
  • MJPG stream: last_ding.jpg

 

Note! The MJPG stream does not work, you have NO video! I’m still searching for a solution to play the last Ring video as camera stream.

 

The result in Home Center 2:

 

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And in the Home Center App:

 

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What the Python script does?

It logs in at the Ring.com servers and checks every 15 seconds if there is a new ring. It saves a local file to know if the last ring is a new one. If the ring is new, it downloads the lastest video and feeds it to ffmpeg to extract 1 frame to create a snapshot.

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1st - it's work only if u have paid account otherwise downloading last ding disabled

2nd  - now I am working on hacking snapshot endpoint what was be changed at March by ring company 

3nd - I have a plan continue work with my native script for ring doorbell + native show snapshot as camera

 

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Thanks!

 

Few remarks:

- In the python script line 33 should be:

except IOError:

- In the python script there is an error at line 45:

filename='mypath + 'last_ding.mp4',

should be

filename=mypath + 'last_ding.mp4',

 

I had some strange thing creating the camera, I had to add a "/" before the filename and then the image was shown, after that I removed the "/" and it was still working...

 

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  • Thank you for removing the bug @boerremk

    I update my GitHub soon, at home I also added HomeBridge/Kit support.

     

     

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    Can somebody send me wright proper file. In Github there were no changes since 5 months. 

    Thanks 

     

    I have such error:

     

    File "FibaroRingCam.py", line 51, in <module>

        subprocess.call(['ffmpeg', '-ss', '00:00:01', '-i',mypath + 'last_ding.mp4', '-vframes', '1', '-q:v', '2',mypath + 'last_ding.jpg', '-y'])

    NameError: global name 'mypath' is not defined

     

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  • @Kamol_ I uploaded my latest version to GitHub:

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    You have to change:

    line 8, 21, 45, 50 and 51 with your own paths, as I have no time at the moment to make it nice.

     

    Enjoy.

     

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    Thank you so much for quick help.

     

    I tried do it myself yesterday - and it was nice (first) lesson of python. Now i can see solution so it is  even better then just sending solution .

    Thanks again

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  • As I remember now, in the version uploaded is simple HomeKit support (via HomeBridge) with the Video-doorbell platform. So you get the camera image on your iPhone lockscreen (with a little delay).

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