This add-on provides users of Home Assistant OS or Home Assistant Supervised an easy method to install the ring-mqtt allowing Home Assistant to easily integrate with alarm, smart lighting and camera devices sold by Ring LLC via the Home Assistants MQTT device support. The project also supports video streaming by providing an RTSP gateway service that allows any media client supporting the RTSP protocol to connect to a Ring camera livestream or to play back recorded events (Ring Protect subscription required for event recording playback). Please review the full list of supported devices and features for more information on current capabilities.
If you need help with this addon please use the discussions section on the main ring-mqtt project.
This is a Home Assistant addon and must be added to the native Home Assistant add-on store, this project has nothing to do with HACS and attempts to add this repository to HACS will fail. The Home Assistant add-on store is only available when running Home Assistant Supervised installed via either Home Assistant OS or manually. If you are running Home Assistant Core via Docker or manual install into a Python virtual environment then there is no support for the addon store but you can still run the ring-mqtt project directly to get the same capabilities.
This add-on requires a working MQTT broker. Configuring Home Assistant MQTT support is outside of the scope of this document but the standard Home Assistant Mosquitto integration along with the Mosquitto MQTT add-on is the recommended configuration.
To install this addon follow these steps:
- Navigate to the add-on store in the Home Assistant UI (Supervisor in the left menu, then Add-on Store on the top tab)
- Select the three vertical dots in the upper right-hand corner and select repositories
- In the Manage add-on repositories screen enter the URL for this projects Github page (https://github.com/tsightler/ring-mqtt-ha-addon) and click add
- After adding the repository scroll to the bottom of the list of addons or use seach to find the addon
- Select the addon and click the Install
- Proceed to the configuration documentation
Please refer to the ring-mqtt project wiki for complete documentation on the various features and configuration options.