Can't Disable Doorbell Ring Notification In HomeKit

[nd3442]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Describe The Bug

Love this plugin.

I'm using Ring Intercom as my device.

Every time someone buzzes the intercom, I get two notifications:

• One from Ring
• One from Home app

I want to disable the notification from the Home app.

I've disabled Status and Notifications for my lock accessory but I'm still getting:
"Room doorbell rang"

To Reproduce

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Expected behavior

No notification when doorbell/buzzer is rang.

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Additional context

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OS

Raspbian

Node.js Version

v22.13.1

NPM Version

v10.9.2

ring-client-api

v6.0.3

Operating System

Raspbian

[tsightler]

I'm a bit confused, you state you don't want to receive notifications when someone rings the doorbell, but then you say you disabled notifications for the lock, which is definitely not the doorbell (an intercom is basically a single device with a doorbell and lock accessory). If you don't want to receive notifications for the doorbell from Homekit, you must turn off notifications for the doorbell, not the lock.

[nd3442]

The plugin gives me two accessories for 1 ring intercom:

• 1 lock
• 1 doorbell (I thought the icon was a programmable switch)

lock allows you to turn off notifications. Doorbell doesn't.

How do I turn off notifications for the doorbell?

Here's a video:
https://www.loom.com/share/ba84e0d7c56e4a3b8d7c89fab7bc7948?sid=424921e5-e16a-4eae-a110-861282936b31

[tsightler]

Edit -- Ah, I remember this issue, it's been reported multiple times.

Unfortunately, I don't know a way to turn it off, that's really a Homekit question, for a doorbell, you simply select the doorbell device and turn it off. From what I can see in the video, that is the programmable switch, not the doorbell (the doorbell itself is registered to Homekit as both a doorbell device and a programmable switch).

It seems like the doorbell accessory is not actually appearing in the Homekit UI. Based on other issues and research into other door openers, Homekit doesn't deal very well with non-video doorbells. You can register a doorbell without a video camera, and they work for notifications, but it doesn't seem to expose them in the UI (users with Intercom have long complained about not being able to disable chimes in the same way).

In the end, as plugin developers, we can't control much about the behavior of Homekit, we simply expose devices via the API, that's it. How Homekit handles that device, and what features are available for that device, is pretty much up to Apple.

My guess is registering a dummy video device would make the option visible as I found another non-video smart doorbell with the same complaints, but that is totally a guess as none of us that maintain this project have an intercom so it's not really something we can easily address. PRs to improve the behavior are welcome, but for now the behavior you see is all we can do.

[tsightler]

Duplicate of #1424 and #1394

[nd3442]

Added the code and put in a PR.

Simple on off switch called "Ring Notifications".

It's in the same tile as the lock and you can just separate them into 2 tiles