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Ring devices to MQTT Bridge
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Integrate with Apple HomeKit through Home Assistant #714

Closed Patrick1610 closed 1 year ago

Patrick1610 commented 1 year ago

Hi! I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I am looking for some help regarding the following setup:

I have a Ring Pro, Home Assistant and Apple Home. From Home Assistant I can expose camera's to Homekit to automatically stream doorbells on AppleTV on a Ding event. This is a standard feature of HomeKit and Home Assistant allows to expose devices to HomeKit. I have been able to add Ring-MQTT successfully to Home Assistant, and I have created the Generic Camera using the links. This works perfectly! Also, when adding the Generic Camera to HomeKit I can live-view the stream there.

My issue is as follows: On the Ring-MQTT (ring_pro_snapshot) device, I don't get a live stream, but on the Generic Camera I do. Only, in HomeKit the Generic camera is not shown as a doorbell with the option to stream on events, while the ring_pro_snapshot device is.

How can I combine the two correctly so that I can stream to AppleTV on a ding from my Ring device? I understand that this is quite a specific situation. If any more information is needed please let me know!

With kind regards, Patrick

tsightler commented 1 year ago

I'm going to switch this to a discussion, maybe somebody in the community will have some input, however, as this project is for ring-mqtt, and your question is really about Homekit and Home Assistant, I'm not sure.

I would personally suggest using a tool like Homebridge or Scrypted for your Homekit needs vs attempting to gateway from ring-mqtt -> Home Assistant -> Homekit.