Ring Doorbell turning on porch light

#1

*1) Give a description of the problem
Cannot make motion sensor on Ring doorbell turn on my porch light

2) What is the expected behavior?
Motion turns on my porch light. I will add timings to this later just want to test it

3) What is happening/not happening?
Ring sends an alert to my phone when it sees motion so I know that is working. I have tested it in IFTTT and it logs motion there. Can’t seem to get it to work in WebCoRE though. I have tried other simple pistons and they work ok

**4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston!

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**5) Attach any logs

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#2

Try removing the modes. Also post the logs it may show why it’s not working in there

#3

Thanks, removed the modes still doesn’t work. Actually there is no log recorded, for some reason. I imagine that if the ST hub sees motion from the Ring doorbell it would log that, not sure why this isn’t happening…

#4

Check the “recently” tab in the App. Are you seeing the motion there?

Turn on logging for this piston.

Are you able to control “switch 2” from any other piston? If you aren’t sure, make a simple piston like this…

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Then click the test for that piston and see if it turns on the desired light.

#5

So I’m new to Webcore, but I have a Ring and I have it doing the exact thing you would like, but I set it up through the “Smart Lights” smartapp on the ST marketplace. I have it set to turn on with motion only after sunset and up until sunrise. It turns the front porch on with motion and then turns it off after 15 minutes of no motion. Super easy / quick to set up.

I know that doesn’t help with the piston, but something to think about if you haven’t looked in to it already.

#6

Not sure why its not working in your code. I am doing something similar (sending push notification when ring sees motion and the front door is closed), and my ring doorbell (pro) is working as intended with the below piston:

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I would also check to make sure you can change the switch 2 status from webcore as mentioned above. When i test new pistons, I use the push notifications like in my example here so i know when events are firing which makes tracking down bugs much easier during development and upgrading pistons.

#7

Here is mine tgat works.

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#8

Hello all, thanks for the replies, sorry for the delay in posting but I have been out of town. I deleted both the Ring and the Porch Light from the ST hub, then re-enrolled them and it is working fine now. Very excellent app, planning on having fun with this!

#9

When RING started requiring 2 factor authentication, it broke for me. I had to uninstall the devices from Smartthings, then rediscover/re-add and it took me through the re-authentication process. After that, it worked.