Anyone using this for their ring doorbell ?
Looks very interesting. I’m considering a new doorbell, options Doorbird, Ring,… integration with Vera is a wish
Interesting i will be trying this later today, hopefully it doesnt blow my whole system apart
I do Ring Integration through IFTTT and the Vera IFTTT Beta to toggle a virtual switch and a virtual sensor to represent motion and door bell push. I know that Doorbird is also fairly easy to configure just search for.Doorbird in the forum.
Scratch that all this plugin does is turn on and off a ring light doesnt do anything for the doorbell
Sorry to disappoint with the plugin. I was playing around with getting Ring to tie into my Vera system so I could automate turning on and off the Ring notifications based on presence. It’s definitely far from anything worthwhile at this point. I’ll give a Lua version of the API another go and see if I can get it up and running. If anyone has Lua/Vera programming experience, I’d love to get some help with development as I have pretty much no knowledge of actually making a Vera plugin.
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Yea we have some very talented Devs still left here, make a new thread and they’ll be able to help 
Here is what I did to get Ring Working with my Vera (for Doorbell push button and motion):
First I use the Switchboard plug in to create two binary switches. For the doorbell push I set the pulse to 3 seconds (aka it will return to off after turned on for 3 seconds), and set the Category to 30 (for door bell). For the motion I set the pulse to 30 seconds (I haven’t be able to figure out if Ring will send mutliple motions detected and how much time there is inbetween, but normally I would hook this up to a timer that I reset everytime I get a motion command until the timer expires… but just wanted a quick solution since the initial motion is what mattered for me).
Then I go into IFTTT (note that IFTTT is still free if you have 3 or fewer receipies, to get arround this limit use email alias for multiple account in IFTTT that way all the emails come to the same address, but IFTTT will see them as different accounts, in gmail you get this for free as something like name-ifttt1@gmail.com is an alias for name@gmail.com. In Hotmail you can add alias you want etc, many other email services support alias’s, I just name mine after the room in Vera so I remember which receipies are in what IFTTT account).
To force IFTTT to see the VERA Service (which was never officially published), Click this link (besure to use the IFTTT account you want, you can hook up multiple IFTTT accounts to the same Vera account): http://ift.tt/2kfYfCj Make sure you configure your Doorbell Push Button and your Doorbell Motion to be visible to IFTTT.
Now Go into IFTTT and create two receipies. One to turn on your Doorbell Button when Rind Doorbell is pushed, and one to turn on Motion switch when Motion is detected.
And you are done. It works fast enough for me to say turn on an inside light when I first detect motion. Pushing the button seems to be same speed as a Chime or the Ring App itself, so again, good enough for my purposes.
I use a VSwitch through alexa, and when there is a button press it rings the chime through my sonos speakers. This way it cuts one cloud (IFFT Cloud) out of the picture so responses are quicker. A native Vera plugin would make this even speedier.
Didn’t you just replace the IFTTT cloud with the Alexa/Amazon Cloud? But yes that works as well since Alexa has insight into Ring.
The ring already goes through the alexa cloud to IFFT. I also have a local hub that connects my vera to alexa bypassing the MIOS cloud