Connection failures after around 2019-12-19

[mmichon]

My constructor call started failing to connect to the Ring service, starting around 2019-12-19. This is probably a server-side change resulting from the bad press on Ring's "vulnerabilities". My code is similar to:

try {
    const ringApi = await RingApi( {
        email: '[email protected]',
        password: 'password you use on ring.com',
        poll: true
    } );
}
catch (err) {
    log("Couldn't connect.")
}

which logs that it can't connect.

[mmichon]

Looks like @joeyberkovitz forked a fix to davglass/doorbot that fixes it with a switch to OAUTH and a user agent change: https://github.com/davglass/doorbot/compare/master...joeyberkovitz:master

[dgreif]

@mmichon this repo is no longer being maintained by @jimhigson. I suggest you take a look at my Ring api over at https://github.com/dgreif/ring.