Get incoming ring?

[niftylettuce]

Would be cool to get the API endpoint for an incoming ring, figure it out @davglass 😆

[davglass]

You can, but you have to poll for it:

ring.authenticate(email, password, (e, token) => {
    console.log(e, token);
    const check = () => {
        console.log('Checking for ring activity..');
        ring.dings(token, (e, json) => {
            console.log(e, json);
        });
    };
    setInterval(check, 30 * 1000);
    check();
});

That should return a chunk of JSON that includes the event id which you can use to get the video stream.

[suhajdab]

Thanks for this npm module! Works like a charm! I tried getting the video stream for incoming, but I get a Error: API returned Status Code 404 when I use the event id for getting the recording.

[jugaltheshah]

Sorry for replying to an old thread. You might also be able to use something like Tasker and a plugin (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joaomgcd.autonotification) to intercept the Ring notification on Android. When you detect the notification, fire off a web request to a server that's listening, and have it check the feed. A bit clunky and involved, but you wouldn't have to poll!

[asantaga]

@suhajdab, BTW the reason why you cant get the incoming video stream (via recordings) is because the recording isnt available for about 30-60seconds after the ring.. Im guessing the bell records, then uploads to AWS where the recordings are held

[ghost]

Im thinking this issue could be closed right? its pretty much closed?

[davglass]

It would still be nice to get the incoming ring. IIRC they use the SIP protocol to answer the ring. Not sure how to do that at the moment and I haven't had time to reverse engineer their api to do it. I'm also not sure if when you answer a call from one place will that stop anyone else from answering it. I just haven't played enough with the real time part of it yet. My use was to archive footage as well as use it to check battery/wifi status for external monitoring.

[ghost]

Davglass, https://github.com/davglass/doorbot/issues/1 covers the querying of the SIP. I found a lot of useful discussion on the python version of the ring api.. I got it working using the blink SIP client but the sip stream only works for 30s or so.. alas I dont have an immediate usecase for this so I stopped R&D

[aniceberg]

Any idea why Ring is returning this:

Checking for ring activity..
null []

instead of the JSON with the event id?

[davglass]

@aniceberg That means there wasn't an event in that check. It needs to poll for them. If the json contains data then there was a ring.

[aniceberg]

@davglass Thanks!

Got this from an event:

null [ { id: 1234913551677183000,
id_str: '1234913551677183223',
state: 'ringing',
protocol: 'sip',
doorbot_id: 1234567,
doorbot_description: 'Front Door',
device_kind: 'lpd_v1',
motion: false,
snapshot_url: '',
kind: 'ding',
sip_server_ip: '12.34.56.78',
sip_server_port: 15063,
sip_server_tls: true,
sip_session_id: '5kadceg027l7n-12345678docili',
sip_from: 'sip:7654321@ring.com',
sip_to: 'sip:5kadceg027l7n-12345678docili@12.34.56.78:15064;transport=tls',
audio_jitter_buffer_ms: 300,
video_jitter_buffer_ms: 300,
sip_endpoints: null,
expires_in: 150,
now: 1512680593.68837,
optimization_level: 1,
sip_token: '2533d5b27a85537e664c83eeab48a576705046d0b9e327dabbde1aefb960b472',
sip_ding_id: '6496913551677183223' } ]

Can you recommend a tool or two that could parse this information and initiate a SIP session with these inputs to bring up a live video feed on a web page?

[davglass]

Technically it should be possible, I've just not had the time to work on it lately.. I still have a box of their gear that I need to get installed too, but life happens ya know :(

[mrose17]

i think that this is now a duplicate of https://github.com/davglass/doorbot/issues/1