Alexa can now arm Ring security

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Hopefully soon Alexa will be able to run ST routines that have security things that are not owned by Amazon.

Alexa can now arm your home security system — including Amazon’s Ring Alarm

[JDRoberts]

New API. Works with abode, ADT, Scout, and ring right now.

ADT partnership: ST-ADT touchscreen hub and devices (discussion thread)

It’s actually ADT’s regular security systems that work with it, not the pulse part specifically. Abode, Ring, and Scout do as well. It’s essentially an Alexa API For a security panel device class. I think it’s likely that smartthings will add it eventually for the ADT model line, I just don’t know when or if it will come from the ADT development team or the smartthings side. That could make a difference as it’s possible that the official feature would work only with the ADT model. But we’ll see. Abode has A good description of how their system is using the Alexa guard option. It’s actually pretty cool. @arnb @MichaelS @tgauchat @Mavrrick58