Ring: Can't hide Siren (alarm in Homekit)

[adavison007]

Bug Report

Describe the Bug

When I set the setting to hide Ring Siren/Alarm switch it still shows the alarm in Homekit

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

• Start Homebridge
• Attempt to ...
• See error

Expected behavior

Always happens since the latest hoops update just now

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Homebridge Ring Config

Post homebridge-ring platform config _without sensitive information_

HIGHLIGHT THIS TEXT AND POST CONFIG HERE
DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR REFRESH TOKEN OR EMAIL/PASSWORD (replace them with xxx)

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Environment

• OS: [e.g. Raspbian]
• Node.js: [e.g. 12.14.1]
• NPM: [e.g 6.13.4]
• homebridge-ring: [e.g 6.0.3]
• homebridge: [e.g. 0.4.50]

[dgreif]

The hideAlarmSirenSwitch hides the _switch_ within that accessory, which can be used to turn the actual siren sound on/off on your ring alarm base station. It _does not_ hide the alarm accessory itself, which is used to change the mode between away/home/disarmed.

If you do not have a ring alarm, you may be seeing that because of the new Ring Location Camera Modes feature. Is that the case?

[adavison007]

hi @dgreif you are correct, it's because I recently enabled the new modes feature (I don't have the alarm)... is there a possibility you can add hide or show this in Homekit? I already have an alarm in homekit and it's another icon I don't need.

Hope you can help?

[dgreif]

The locations mode accessory shouldn't show if it's in the same location as your ring alarm. My guess is that you have the alarm in one location, and the modes feature in a different location.

But, if you still want to hide it, you can set "locationModePollingSeconds": 0. Let me know if that works 😄

[adavison007]

The locations mode accessory shouldn't show if it's in the same location as your ring alarm. My guess is that you have the alarm in one location, and the modes feature in a different location.

But, if you still want to hide it, you can set "locationModePollingSeconds": 0. Let me know if that works 😄

@dgreif I don't have a ring alarm.... ??

[dgreif]

Wow, totally misread that in your last comment 🤦‍♂. Sorry!

[dgreif]

@adavison007 did that setting hide it for you properly?

[adavison007]

Sorry, I missed that command, just tried it and it worked fine, big thanks

Adam Davison

On 15 Apr 2020, at 13:10, Dusty Greif [e-mail] wrote:

@adavison007 https://github.com/adavison007 did that setting hide it for you properly?

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