Enable Sensor Chirp Tone Control

[j6s33m]

In the most recent release, keypad chirp tones were added as a switch for HA users. Would love to enable something similar for alarm sensors sounds. It's about 5-6 clicks in the ring app to change it. Would love to automate based on presence or scenes in HA.

[tsightler]

I guess no good deed goes unpunished. I added this simple enable/disable chirp feature because it only took about 10 minutes to code up and test and I thought it might help for the thread where this was already discussed (#582) and of course, nearly immediately, I get asked about the significantly more complex feature.

The issue is that, while the Ring app presents these chirp sound settings as if they are part of the individual sensors, thet are actually stored as part of, and modified by sending commands to, the security-panel device. Unfortunately, the architecture of ring-mqtt was never really designed with such a scenario in mind and, while I have some ideas that could address this without too many changes, it will still take a lot more than 10 minutes. and I don't have much time for this right now. Maybe in the future.

[j6s33m]

Makes sense. Appreciate you considering it in the future. Thankful for the work you do.

[tsightler]

To be clear, I agree it would be a nice feature, I did look at it, but I just didn't have enough time to get that deep into prototyping. I'll keep it churning in the back of my mind.

[tsightler]

After noodling on this for a while in the background, I was able to implement this quite a bit easier than I originally thought and it seems to work well enough for me. If anyone monitoring this thread is willing to test the dev branch (set branch config option to "dev" and restart), I would appreciate it. Hopefully I can include it in a v5.6.1 update soon.

[j6s33m]

Amazing! Will switch back to dev this evening after work and help test.

[j6s33m]

Works perfectly and is exactly how I envisioned it would be integrated. Incredible. Thank you.

This opens the door (pun intended) for a lot of automations.

[tsightler]

Thanks for the extra validation and glad it's working. I don't know why it seemed so difficult at first, I already had support for multi-component devices, so I just used that same concept for this and it worked straight away. There were a few weird things to work out, like the fact that "Dinner Bell" in the app is "cowbell" in the API, and then I had a weird issue with Home Assistant where sending the value "None", which is what the Ring app uses when no chirp tone is set, but this would just set the value to null in Home Assistant because 'None" is used to clear existing values. For now I just map "None" in the app to "Disabled" and I hope most people can figure that out.

[j6s33m]

Yes I noticed the "disabled" and it was completely intuitive to me. I assumed there was some translation issues from ring to HA via the api.

Again, you integrated this exactly how I hoped you would with a dropdown menu array.

TY! Will tip

[j6s33m]

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