How to toggle light?

[rcanetta]

Hi, I am trying to control the light of a Ring Spotlight Cam Pro. I have created the group using the Ring app and I can see the group with ring-doorbell.

`root@er:/home/pi/ring# ring-doorbell groups

Ring CLI (Pretty format coming soon, if you want json consistently from this command provide the --json flag) "57d6f08a-070f-4af3-a5e7-207b1113c9c2" `

Now I'm lost: how do I toggle the light status? I can't find a cli command so I tried creating a script using the example in the docs, but I get errors...

Any hint please?

Thanks Riccardo

[rcanetta]

Hi, this is the script I tried to do

'#!/usr/bin/python

-- coding: utf-8 --

import re import sys

from ring_doorbell import AuthenticationError, Requires2FAError, Ring, Auth from ring_doorbell.cli import ( cli, devices_command, list_command, listen, groups, motion_detection, show, videos, )

def main():

ring = Ring(auth)

groups = Ring.groups()
group = groups['my_group_as_taken_from_cli']


print(group.lights)

Prints True if lights are on, False if off

Turn on lights indefinitely

group.lights = True

Turn off lights

#group.lights = False

Turn on lights for 30 seconds

#group.lights = (True, 30)

if name == "main": main() '

but I still get error

./lighton.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pi/ring/./lighton.py", line 39, in <module> main() File "/home/pi/ring/./lighton.py", line 22, in main groups = Ring.groups() TypeError: groups() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'

Any hint of what I should fix?

Thanks! Riccardo

[sdb9696]

Hi Riccardo, the cli doesn't currently support changing the states, just returning information. The best way to do what you want to do would be to fork the repository and submit a PR with the change you want. I'd suggest adding two options to the groups command in cli.py, --group-name and --toggle-lights. If group-name is supplied get your group with ring.groups_data[group_name] and then if toggle-lights is supplied then set .lights to the opposite of what it currently is.

[rcanetta]

Hi, I did create a fork but then when I go to PullRequest it doesn't let me create a new one... sorry I'm not familiar with this process. Can you please let me know how I should do this?

Thanks R

[sdb9696]

You create a PR by using git to push changes to a branch in your fork. Once your fork has new commits pushed it to then GitHub will show you an option to create a pull request.

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