Finally! Ring cams will stop bombarding you with AI alerts

Ring’s AI event notifications are handy when it comes to getting text descriptions of what’s happening around your abode, but too many of the AI-generated pop-ups can get annoying fast. 

To cut down on the chatter, Ring is debuting a new feature: AI Single Event Alert, which takes multiple AI notifications from related motion events captured by your Ring cameras and combines them into—you guessed it—a single alert. 

The feature, which is slated to begin rolling out today for subscribers to Ring’s priciest subscription plan, joins a couple of other Ring AI tools that were first introduced last fall: Video Descriptions, which employ AI to write brief summaries of video events, and Smart Video Search, which allows you to comb through your saved videos using natural-language queries. 

AI Single Event Alert works by taking multiple Video Descriptions, analyzing their summaries to pinpoint “patterns and similarities that signal one ongoing activity,” and then combining those summaries into a single notification. 

Ring

In other words, instead of getting peppered with pop-ups like “A person is walking a brown dog in the grass,” “A person and a brown dog are playing in the yard,” and “A person and a brown dog are walking on the grass,” you’ll just get a “single event” alert that reads, “A person is playing with a brown dog in the yard.” 

The individual motion events will remain in your video history, Ring says, adding that “you’ll simply be alerted in a more efficient, intuitive way.” 

Before you can enable AI Single Event Alert, you’ll need to sign up for Ring Home Premium, the priciest of Ring’s subscription plans.  

Ring Home Premium costs $20 a month, and it includes features such as the aforementioned Video Descriptions and Smart Video Search, along with 180 days of video history, 14 days of 24/7 video recording for supported Ring cameras, the ability to request emergency responders directly within the Ring app, and local microSD video storage on the Ring Alarm Pro security system. 

Also available for $200 a year, a single Ring Home Premium subscription is good for all your Ring cameras within a single location, and it includes the same features as the less expensive Ring Home Standard and Home Basic plans, including AI object detection for people, packages, and vehicles, live picture-in-picture views, daily event summaries, and more. 

This story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best security cameras.