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Monitoring your property with Ring

View live camera footage and door events from your Ring devices directly in Minut.

Written by Emilie Pain

Ring integration connects your Ring doorbell cameras to Minut, so you can monitor your property and share camera access with guests, all without leaving the app.

Before you can use the features below, you'll need to set up the Ring integration and link it to a Ring location.


Live camera view

Once a Ring location is linked to a unit, you'll see an Outdoor cameras section when you open that property in the Minut app.

From here you can:

  • Open a live stream from any Ring camera in that location

  • Switch between cameras using the dropdown in the top right

  • Turn sound on or off

  • Reconnect if the stream drops


Event logs

Minut logs all Ring events for linked units, storing a snapshot from the doorbell with each event when available. You can view:

  • Motion detected

  • Doorbell pressed

Tap any event to open the event details. You'll see the associated video clip when available; guests see the event entry and snapshot but cannot view recorded footage.

Group-arrival events picked up from Ring motion carry the originating Ring event details, so you'll see a View footage button on those too — this applies to new events as well as ones already in your event log.

If a snapshot or clip isn't available right away, Minut retries fetching it for a while to catch late-arriving footage. If it never becomes available, the event still appears in the log without media.


Notifications

  • Push notifications and transactional emails go to you for outdoor-camera motion, doorbell presses, and Frequent motion events, respecting your notification settings

  • Emails deep-link straight to the camera view

  • Guests don't receive push or email notifications for Ring events

  • There's no SMS or WhatsApp channel for these events


Guest app

Guests staying at your property can access Ring cameras through the Minut Guest app. Their access is scoped to their current stay and expires once the stay ends.

From the Guest app, guests can:

  • View a live stream of the cameras in their unit

  • Turn sound on or off

  • See a log of door events during their stay

Guests can see events in the log, with a snapshot when available, but cannot view recorded footage.


Frequent Motion Alerts

If 10 or more human-motion events occur within a 1-hour window on the same doorbell, Minut creates a Frequent motion event and notifies you according to your settings. Once a Frequent motion event fires for a property, further Frequent motion alerts are suppressed there until the 1-hour window rolls forward.


Motion and presence detection

For properties without an indoor Minut device, Ring human-motion events can act as an outdoor fallback signal for motion and presence-detection automation rules — helping flag unexpected presence, guest arrival, or a guest no-show, when configured. Only motion that Ring classifies as human is surfaced to Minut as a motion event; other motion is stored but doesn't trigger notifications or automation.


Motion automation: entering_limit

The entering_limit setting on a property's Monitoring presets controls how many people Ring needs to detect entering together before it's treated as a group arrival for your motion automation rules. For example, set it to 2 if you only want automation to run when two or more people enter together. Setting it to 0 skips this check entirely for that property. Motion classified as "passing by" or "unknown" never counts toward entering_limit.


Keep in mind

  • Only Ring doorbell cameras are supported. Other Ring devices on the account — indoor cameras, floodlights, Ring Alarm — are not surfaced in Minut.

  • Camera access is per unit. Guests can only see cameras linked to their specific unit, not cameras at other properties.

  • The integration is available to US customers only. Whoever authorizes the Ring connection must be physically located in the United States when they connect the account.

  • Live streams can be ended by Ring on their end. If that happens, the app will try to reconnect and shows a "Failed to start live view" message if Ring rejects the reconnection.

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