#How to use Ring camera motion sensor to trigger lights?

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waxen oracle
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Very new user to HA and I’m having trouble setting up automations utilising the motion feature on my Ring Indoor Camera.

I currently have the Ring MQTT setup and working.
I’ve tried the ‘motion activated light’ blueprint and also creating a new automation for ‘motion detection’.

I’ve tried this for both the standard device (through Ring integration) as well as the MQTT integration.

Not really sure where to go from here, have spent a good couple of hours testing different configurations of the above and can’t seem to get it working.

Any pointers for a total newbie are much appreciated!

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How to use Ring camera motion sensor to trigger lights?

urban plover
waxen oracle
# urban plover Here's how I do it... What did you try? <https://github.com/SirGoodenough/Home-A...

Thanks for your reply.
I'll be honest, i'm not really experience with the coding side of it. Would you be able to give some points on it?
I can kind of see how your 'action' is play a doorbell ding? But I'm not sure how I would use this to make a light turn on

I have it setup like this (Copied from YAML)

alias: TEST CAMERA
description: ""
triggers:
  - type: motion
    device_id: 2997ad44f95206a5bb51ccc9f9813496
    entity_id: 223ecafe36a1dff430dcbdc8733a849e
    domain: binary_sensor
    trigger: device
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: light.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      device_id: ebc4affa1326529a2f69324aa4ae0ee4
mode: single
urban plover
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Coding is a strong word when you are talking about Home assistant. It's mote like story writing when you are using the GUI Automation writing tool. When this happens (pick an entiry that can do something) Then do that (with an entity).

waxen oracle
# urban plover Coding is a strong word when you are talking about Home assistant. It's mote lik...

Thank you for this response, that's really helpful. I'll make sure to rename my entity IDs moving forwards, makes much more sense
At the moment - no, the automation does not do what I want it to do.
I'm pretty confident that motion is being detected on the Indoor Camera (the log in Ring-MQTT shows it) but the automation is not being triggered (not showing in HA and the light isn't switching on) . When I manually trigger the automation, the light turns on