HomeKit bridge with Ring

With HomeBridge installed on a Raspberry Pi, (RPi), You just install the homebridge-ring plugin and the Ring accessories will appear in Apple HomeKit

This post will cover the Ring video doorbell but is a guide for other Ring products.

Prerequisites

• Homebridge
• Ring doorbell
• Ring account

Installation
Log on to the RPi in a terminal/ssh session and install the software

$ sudo npm install -g homebridge-ring

edit the "config.json" according to the instructions

If using Two Factor Auth, or if You don't wan't to have Your credentials in the "config.json" file, use a token instead.

Run the command with Your credentials for the Ring account

$ npx -p ring-client-api ring-auth-cli
npx: installed 168 in 29.448s
This CLI will provide you with a refresh token which you can use to configure ring-client-api and homebridge-ring.
Email: your.mail@mail.com
Password: 123456

Successfully logged in to Ring. Please remove your email/password from your config and add the following instead:

"refreshToken": "eyJhbGcxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxuFWByT8A"

Please note;

• running this command will take up to 1 minute, since it's installing npx
• the token is around 100 characters long.

Use the refreshToken in "config.json".

If using my setup with systemd autostart, stop homebridge with 

$ sudo systemctl stop homebridge

and restart homebridge manually with just 

$ homebridge

Check log and You will see something like....

[11/16/2019, 10:47:22] ---

[11/16/2019, 10:47:24] Loaded plugin: homebridge-ring

[11/16/2019, 10:47:24] Registering platform 'homebridge-ring.Ring'

-

[11/16/2019, 10:47:36] [Ring] Configuring 1 cameras and 1 devices for location "XXX" - locationId: 60-xx-216

[11/16/2019, 10:47:36] [Ring] Adding new accessory doorbell_v4 Front Door

[11/16/2019, 10:47:36] Front Door is running on port 37xxx.

[11/16/2019, 10:47:36] Please add [Front Door] manually in Home app. Setup Code: 031-XX-XXX

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and then add the camera using these instructions.

Now You should be up and running with the camera visible in the Home app.

Exit from homebridge with Ctrl + C and then restart with 

$ sudo systemctl restart homebridge

and You are back in production.