Ring Doorbell camera feed on TV when motion is detected (guide in Description)

NOTE - Smartthings has changed their platform so the below no longer works with this system - however, swap out 'Smartthings' with a different platform such as Hubitat and the below remains the same

This automation uses a Smartthings (WebCore) routine to trigger a Sonos speaker to talk to an Echo Dot, which in turn, asks my Fire TV Stick to show my Ring Doorbell feed on my TV when it detects motion.

The automation captures the current source before switching to the doorbell camera, then reverts back after a small period of time, and only fires when the TV is on.

The easy way to do this (without switching your TV source back to where it was after 25 seconds etc) would be to have 2 Alexa devices within ear-shot of each other and an Amazon Fire TV stick.

The 2 Alexa way:

*Edit: this is now possible to do without an additional Alexa device using the new 'custom action' command in Alexa routines'

1. Add the Ring skill to Alexa
2. Create a routine that uses your Ring Doorbell press/motion as the trigger, then select 'Alexa says' and write 'Alexa show me the front door'

Dec 2020 update - now select 'custom action' instead of 'Alexa says' and you won't need 2 Alexa devices. Then create an additional routine using custom action to for the 'wait' & 'go home' part listed below.

3. Add a 'wait' command for approx 20 secs or so.
4. Add an additional 'Alexa says' command and write 'Go home' (this will stop the fire-stick recording)
3. With your firestick make sure you have device control on in your settings so it automatically switches your source.

Smartthings way - much more complicated, but gives you much more control, i.e. switching back to the original viewing source once finished, adds the ability to ensure that this only executes when you are at home, between certain times etc, etc.

For this explanation, I'm trusting you have the relevant devices, and know about Smartthings and the WebCore app etc.

1. Add your AV system to Smarttings (I used the Classic app for this) - the device handler I used can be found here: https://community.smartthings.com/t/w... (it says 'withdrawn' but it still worked for me).

2. Expose your new device handler to the WebCore app.

3. Import this WebCore Piston: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ajTv...

You'll need to update the devices with your own AV system, Ring Camera/Doorbell, conditional switches etc (i.e. my 'if' switches are TV, Netflix, Amazon). and my 'music player' is my Sonos system. My Denon amp shows as 'Dimmer 4' for some reason in this anonymised WebCore picture, so don't get confused by that.

And you should be good to go!