Hi
I have Ring Alarm Plus (professional 24/7 monitoring service) and SmartThings controlling some lights and sensors.
I would like to create a routine or something to turn on lights in the Ring Alarm triggered event (alarming).
Any advise will be appreciate.
There’s no direct integration between the two systems. Weirdly, Ring can’t even turn on lights when triggered within its own system except for lights using the Ring bridge. There’s quite a bit of discussion in the ring forum about this limitation. 
There are two known workarounds for this, and both would work with smartthings as well.
For example, if you have two motion sensors and four window sensors, you would have to set up six routines in Alexa. ( and right now there is a total limit of 99.) On the other hand, since you are working at the individual sensor level you can control specifically what happens afterwards, which is nice. You have to find the sensor under “smart home“ and then start from there.
Anyway, it will work. But it’s a long way around to get what seems like it should be a simple rule set up.
Thanks JDRobert for your quickly and explanatory answer.
Do you know if your recommended routines (reading the Ring Alarm mode and sensor status) can be deployed into Home Assistant (or another Automation software) instead of
Thanks in advance
The Ring sensors are exposed to Alexa routines, so you can use Alexa routines as an intermediary with anything that can be turned on or off by Alexa.
I’m not sure I understood the rest of your question.
JDRoberts:
The routine will need to be trigger by the sensor but also check for Ring status on Stay or Away, it is correct? I didn’t find the way to use the IF (stay or away) into Alexa routine creator on my Alexa applicion on my phone. So I saw to do the routine into a Advanced software (maybe don’t may sense, sorry).
Could you please advice how to use a condition into Alexa routine?
You can’t. 
. You have to put any conditional or filter logic in the other system. For example, if the ring sensor alerts, you can have the Alexa routine turn on a virtual Switch in smartthings, and then you can have smartthings decide what to do based on that virtual switch coming on and any other conditions you have. So it’s not a great integration, but some people can use it depending on the details of what they’re trying to do.
What I did was hack/hobble together a dome alarm to the second terminals of an ecolink door/window contact. Thus, when the dome alarm gets triggered by the ring alarm, it triggers the ecolink contact that triggers the smartthings automation to do as you need.
i also hacked/hobbled together a dome alarm to trigger a relay for a much louder siren horn as the dome alarm is a low sounding alarm.
That’s clever. 
Awestun, could you please provide details about your hack/hobble solution.
Hello Austin I am interested on taking on the task to hack the dome siren what parts did you use can you provide names where to get them or links
I put together another method of triggering ST devices or Alexa routines when Ring is alarming. I used a Ring Smart Outdoor Plug, an A/C Relay with dry contacts and an Ecolink Door/Window Sensor. When Ring is alarming it can turn on the Smart Outdoor plug. The A/C Relay has dry contacts. When the Relay gets power from the Outdoor Plug it closes the normally open dry contacts on the Ecolink Door/Window Sensor. I have it making announcements, turning on red lights outside and setting off sirens on echos.
The Relay I used is pictured below.
That’s clever.
ErnieG:
On away I have a entry delay in order to have enough time to type my key into the keypad.
This trick will turn on the light anyway or way for the timeout?
The way I have it setup it only turns on the outlet when the alarm is going off. It does not trigger during an entry delay.
Hi ErnieG, believe it or not I’m ErnieG too. I stumbled upon your clever hack to get ring alarm to trigger smartthings routines like turning lights on. I bought everything you recommended, but I’m struggling to find installation instructions and guide me on how to wire the ecobee to the relay. Can you help?
A lot of things can change in two years, and smartthings has gone through a massive architecture change in that time. So things may not work quite the same way, but the basic principle is sound.
First, just to be sure, did you buy an “ecolink” sensor with dry contacts? Or did you buy an “ecobee” sensor (which won’t work for this purpose).
First rule of home automation: “the model number matters.“
Anyway, to find currently available devices that have dry contacts, see the community FAQ on that topic:
FAQ: List of devices with dry contact input from external sources
Normally a device which offers dry contacts will include wiring instructions in its own user manual. 
sorry, mistype-yes, I got the ecolink sensor and it does have two dry contacts inside. I’m guessing I just wire 1 to the common and 1 to the “normally closed” on the relay. Did you wire yours to be “closed” when no power and then ac (from the outdoor Ring outlet) “opens” it to create the event? no instructions on the ecolink or the relay!
Sorry for the very delayed response. Changes in Alexa allow the turning on of a specific outlet in the Ring Outdoor plug to trigger a routine. Thus, the Ecolink sensor and the relay are no longer needed in this use case. Just setup a ln Alexa routine that when outlet comes on it turns on a virtual switch (or actual device) that Smartthings can see.
