Python Ring Door Bell

Python Ring Door Bell is a library written for Python 3.8+ that exposes the Ring.com devices as Python objects.

There is also a command line interface that is work in progress. Contributors welcome.

Currently Ring.com does not provide an official API. The results of this project are merely from reverse engineering.

Documentation: http://python-ring-doorbell.readthedocs.io/

Installation

# Installing from PyPi
$ pip install ring_doorbell

# Installing latest development
$ pip install \
    git+https://github.com/tchellomello/python-ring-doorbell@master

Event Listener

If you want the ring api to listen for push events from ring.com for dings and motion you will need to install with the listen extra:

$ pip install ring_doorbell[listen]

The api will then start listening for push events after you have first called update_dings() or update_data() but only if there is a running asyncio event loop (which there will be if using the CLI)

Using the CLI

The CLI is work in progress and currently has the following commands:

1. Show your devices:

   $ ring-doorbell
   

   Or:

   $ ring-doorbell show
   

2. List your device names (with device kind):

   $ ring-doorbell list
   

3. Either count or download your vidoes or both:

   $ ring-doorbell videos --count --download-all
   

4. Enable disable motion detection:

   $ ring-doorbell motion-detection --device-name "DEVICENAME" --on
   $ ring-doorbell motion-detection --device-name "DEVICENAME" --off
   

5. Listen for push notifications like the ones sent to your phone:

   $ ring-doorbell listen
   

6. List your ring groups:

   $ ring-doorbell groups
   

7. Show your ding history:

   $ ring-doorbell history --device-name "Front Door"
   

8. Show your currently active dings:

   $ ring-doorbell dings
   

9. Query a ring api url directly:

   $ ring-doorbell raw-query --url /clients_api/dings/active
   

10. Run ring-doorbell --help or ring-doorbell videos --help for full options

Initializing your Ring object

import getpass
import json
from pathlib import Path

from ring_doorbell import Auth, AuthenticationError, Requires2FAError, Ring

user_agent = "YourProjectName-1.0"  # Change this
cache_file = Path(user_agent + ".token.cache")


def token_updated(token):
    cache_file.write_text(json.dumps(token))


def otp_callback():
    auth_code = input("2FA code: ")
    return auth_code


def do_auth():
    username = input("Username: ")
    password = getpass.getpass("Password: ")
    auth = Auth(user_agent, None, token_updated)
    try:
        auth.fetch_token(username, password)
    except Requires2FAError:
        auth.fetch_token(username, password, otp_callback())
    return auth


def main():
    if cache_file.is_file():  # auth token is cached
        auth = Auth(user_agent, json.loads(cache_file.read_text()), token_updated)
        ring = Ring(auth)
        try:
            ring.create_session()  # auth token still valid
        except AuthenticationError:  # auth token has expired
            auth = do_auth()
    else:
        auth = do_auth()  # Get new auth token
        ring = Ring(auth)

    ring.update_data()

    devices = ring.devices()
    print(devices)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Listing devices linked to your account

# All devices
devices = ring.devices()
{'chimes': [<RingChime: Downstairs>],
'doorbots': [<RingDoorBell: Front Door>]}

# All doorbells
doorbells = devices['doorbots']
[<RingDoorBell: Front Door>]

# All chimes
chimes = devices['chimes']
[<RingChime: Downstairs>]

# All stickup cams
stickup_cams = devices['stickup_cams']
[<RingStickUpCam: Driveway>]

Playing with the attributes and functions

devices = ring.devices()
for dev in list(devices['stickup_cams'] + devices['chimes'] + devices['doorbots']):
    dev.update_health_data()
    print('Address:    %s' % dev.address)
    print('Family:     %s' % dev.family)
    print('ID:         %s' % dev.id)
    print('Name:       %s' % dev.name)
    print('Timezone:   %s' % dev.timezone)
    print('Wifi Name:  %s' % dev.wifi_name)
    print('Wifi RSSI:  %s' % dev.wifi_signal_strength)

    # setting dev volume
    print('Volume:     %s' % dev.volume)
    dev.volume = 5
    print('Volume:     %s' % dev.volume)

    # play dev test shound
    if dev.family == 'chimes':
        dev.test_sound(kind = 'ding')
        dev.test_sound(kind = 'motion')

    # turn on lights on floodlight cam
    if dev.family == 'stickup_cams' and dev.lights:
        dev.lights = 'on'

Showing door bell events

devices = ring.devices()
for doorbell in devices['doorbots']:

    # listing the last 15 events of any kind
    for event in doorbell.history(limit=15):
        print('ID:       %s' % event['id'])
        print('Kind:     %s' % event['kind'])
        print('Answered: %s' % event['answered'])
        print('When:     %s' % event['created_at'])
        print('--' * 50)

    # get a event list only the triggered by motion
    events = doorbell.history(kind='motion')

Downloading the last video triggered by a ding or motion event

devices = ring.devices()
doorbell = devices['doorbots'][0]
doorbell.recording_download(
    doorbell.history(limit=100, kind='ding')[0]['id'],
                     filename='last_ding.mp4',
                     override=True)

Displaying the last video capture URL

print(doorbell.recording_url(doorbell.last_recording_id))
'https://ring-transcoded-videos.s3.amazonaws.com/99999999.mp4?X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Date=20170313T232537Z&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=TOKEN_SECRET/us-east-1/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=secret'

Controlling a Light Group

groups = ring.groups()
group = groups['the-group-you-want']

print(group.lights)
# Prints True if lights are on, False if off

# Turn on lights indefinitely
group.lights = True

# Turn off lights
group.lights = False

# Turn on lights for 30 seconds
group.lights = (True, 30)

How to contribute

See our Contributing Page.

Credits && Thanks

• This project was inspired and based on https://github.com/jeroenmoors/php-ring-api. Many thanks @jeroenmoors.
• A guy named MadBagger at Prism19 for his initial research (http://www.prism19.com/doorbot/second-pass-and-comm-reversing/)
• The creators of mitmproxy (https://mitmproxy.org/) great http and https traffic inspector
• @mfussenegger for his post on mitmproxy and virtualbox https://zignar.net/2015/12/31/sniffing-vbox-traffic-mitmproxy/
• To the project http://www.android-x86.org/ which allowed me to install Android on KVM.
• Many thanks to Carles Pina I Estany <[email protected]> for creating the python-ring-doorbell Debian Package (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-ring-doorbell).