Check your “States” under Developer Tools, it should be named “light.device_name” where device_name is whatever you have it named in your Ring app. It should be called the same as your camera,

HA Floodlight Button = OFF (user toggled) AND Floodlight Physical Light = OFF (light turns OFF via this LATEST HA Button user toggle)

The Ring Bridge is for a completely different product set. This is purely for Floodlight Cams and Spotlight Cam products that don’t require a bridge to work.

Note that while I’m using HomeKit/Home.app (where I have this on/off button forwarded via Home Assistant) in my GIF example above, the same exact issue/behavior occurs directly within Home Assistant when I toggle the Ring Floodlight on/of directly within HASS.

So what happens, when you hit the button, the switch toggles and sends the command to Ring to turn on the light so that happens quite fast, however, the state machine still thinks the switch is off and will not be updated with it’s new state until the next polling interval so the visual effect is you see the switch toggle, and then quickly toggle back.

HA Floodlight Button = OFF (WITHOUT any user toggle—button state seemingly changes itself to OFF just moments later) AND Floodlight Physical Light = ON (light still ON via original HA Button user toggle)

You haven’t broken your configuration.yaml up into separate files have you? Otherwise, I don’t see anything wrong with the configuration. That’s basically what I have and I get lights for both of mine.

No, I don’t mind at all! I just never had time to jump through the hoops to get it merged in. Got too busy. But I’d love to see it make it into the main home assistant stuff.

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HA Floodlight Button = ON (WITHOUT any user toggle—button state seemingly changes itself to ON just moments later) AND Floodlight Physical Light = OFF (light still OFF via the LATEST HA Button user toggle from #5 directly above)

HA Floodlight Button = ON (user toggled) AND Floodlight Physical Light = ON (light still ON via original HA Button user toggle)

I could be wrong, but I don’t think there’s much that can be done about this because, unfortunately, the Ring API for controlling doorbells/cameras/lights is 100% polling based. This means that HA has to poll Ring servers at an interval to get device state and update the internal state machine. As written, the code polls every 10 seconds, although the Ring API can sometimes be quite sluggish responding as well.

I see this exact behavior with the Tuya cloud component as well and it’s been described many times on other posts. Typically, if you wait at least the time of the polling interval (or, on average, about half the polling interval) then the switch should be updated to show the correct state.

yea, like I mentioned, I see the floodlight camera, binary_sensor, and sensor entities in the device state list, but the light entity is not appearing.

I hadn’t realized that, but now I’m waiting on the HA button to let it restore itself to the correct state, and it’s indeed working.

The Ring Bridge lets you group together Ring Smart Lights and connect them to Ring doorbells and cameras and select Alexa-enabled devices via the Ring App.

I’ve had this working for quite some time using the new custom_components. I don’t think a PR was ever made. It’s working in 92.1 for me.

here is what I see. I also see the preview of the cameras on the main page. I see all three of my camera’s but no light switch option.

Does this Ring light platform require a Ring Bridge to be installed, or can it be controlled via Home Assistant directly without needing to authenticate with Ring’s cloud?

So earlier in the thread @tsightler and @claytonjn helped me get my Ring Floodlight’s on/off light controls working within my Hassio on Pi setup.

Once started up, I see the floodlight camera, binary_sensor, and sensor entities all show up in the device state list, but the light entity is not appearing.

I believe that all operations need to go through Ring’s cloud. I have no idea what the Ring Bridge is, there’s nothing on Ring’s website about it that I can find. Perhaps you’re referring to the security base station?

My configuration.yaml has been broken up into lots of files for at least a year and I’m running HA 0.102.2. The only thing I can think of is that I have a custom component for Lutron lights that may be interfering?

However, when I say “(mostly) worked” above, there’s an oddity I’ve had since day 1, and continue to have today (below is a GIF, so it may take a moment to load on your end): ring-floodlight-HA-issue-GIF_3702×1248 2.9 MB

Some vendors offer more realtime APIs, even Ring uses a websocket based API for their alarm sensors which lets me trigger events in near real time from alarm devices, but the API for doorbell/camera is still old school polling (their app works the same, it just fakes the status probably by updating the local state machine immediate or something until the next poll interval, but if you turn on the light with, for example, HA, while watching it in the Ring app, you will see it take seconds before the new status is reflected there, because of this very same polling.

HA Floodlight Button = OFF (user toggled) AND Floodlight Physical Light = OFF (still OFF via the LATEST HA Button user toggle from #5 above; essentially back to “default” state originally described in #1 above)

Now, there may be some things that could be done, I don’t really know that much about how HA plugins work, perhaps you could force an immediate poll whenever button is pressed. Someone with more knowledge of the HA framework would have to answer that, I can just say I see this with other components as well and I just wait for the state updates.

FYI, as of 0.97.0 some minor adjustments need to be made to get this to work. Is this in a repo anywhere that I can submit a PR?