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Hopefully I'm just doing it wrong, but the check_alerts() function for the doorbell is not working for me

I have set up a ~7s loop, to check that function and get the alert details when one happens

from ring_doorbell import Ring
from ring_doorbell import RingDoorBell
from pprint import pprint
import time

myring = Ring('creds', "False", 'True','http://localhost/', 'True', 'ring_doorbell-session.cache')

while(True):
    obj2 = RingDoorBell(myring, 'Front Door')
    checker = obj2.check_alerts()
    print checker
    print obj2.battery_life
    time.sleep(2)

This runs and continues to print None and the battery life, after creating a motion event while this loop is running i get nothing

this works for me, but what it does is simply tell u if a Ding or a Motion event was triggered last.. Checkout my code https://github.com/asantaga/alexashowRing/blob/master/alexaringdoor.py

Thanks @asantaga looks like its just me then! I'll grab that snippet out of your code base there and try that

Please @mrwhale let us know if that worked.

Yeah so it seems that class doesn't like the check_alerts() method

from ring_doorbell import Ring
from ring_doorbell import RingDoorBell
myring = Ring('creds', "False", 'True','http://localhost/', 'True', 'ring_doorbell-session.cache')

while(True):
    print  RingDoorBell(myring, 'Front Door').check_alerts()
    print  myring.doorbells[1].check_alerts()

When an event happens ( A ring event in this case) i got

None
True

So it seems myring.doorbells[1].check_alerts() works but RingDoorBell(myring, 'Front Door').check_alerts() does not

@mrwhale you may want to use return instead of print this may be causing your output to be none

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