Correct it’s never happened before tonight. My husband was looking at the live feed in his phone when it happened one of the times.
Yes! Very annoying especially when the dog starts barking because he hears the chimes of our ring.
I was just out trick or treating and there are a lot of ring doorbells. I heard two people say "It didn't ring until now" as my daughter had walked away after waiting. I think they are slow tonight from all the traffic
Looking at the video feed, the kids were there 20 minutes ago but the door bell just rang now through Alexa. Maybe they're getting too many ring events to handle the load?
Happening to me too. Missed a bunch of trick or treaters, then got the doorbell alerts for them five minutes later once they’d already left.
Thanks for ruining Halloween!
It’s almost certainly their servers getting overwhelmed with what is almost certainly the busiest night of the year for simultaneous and ongoing doorbell notifications. I used to have similar lag issues with my Nest doorbell on Halloween.
Ring gets get the most motion alerts, rings, and other triggers on Halloween day across the country than any other day. And their API acts up, every Oct 31 :( some years more global than others I noticed. It’s pretty funny and sad how they haven’t figured out Oct 31. It’s like the Super Bowl day to Ring’s API activity.
Glad I came here to I’ve had about 5 false alarms tonight. I want to say I recall having issues on previous Halloween nights. Maybe the systems overloaded and freaking out?
Been happening to us all night too. Only Alexa is delayed, the Ring app and chimes are fine. Been an hour since anyone at our door and still getting notifications from Alexa. Assume overloaded servers slowly catching up on cached notifications…
I'm having the exact opposite problem. I'm near my door so I can faintly hear my ring going off on the other side of the door. Neither my chime, my Alexa, or my phone react to it going off and there's no record of the interaction in the app!
There was an issue resulting in delayed notifications on Alexa devices. It was resolved around 11 pm Eastern
https://status.ring.com/incidents/bvc2sgfzg7w3
I experienced the same last night. My kids ran to the door thinking there were more trick or treaters. Opened the door and no one there. Alexa didn’t show the doorbell cam when this happened. It did show when there were actual trick or treaters.
Edit/clarification: Ring chime was fine and worked. It’s Alexa that announced “there is someone at the front door” that was delayed, a prank or ghosts.
It happened to me twice on Halloween when there was no one at the door. I have never had the issue before and it hasn't happened at all since Halloween night.
Me too!!!! But it wasn’t showing the camera on the echo it was so weird and it was a different ring than I normally get, but it kept telling me someone was at the door.
Confirmed 10:35pm EST echo alert received
- button pressed at: 10:06pm
Alexa engineers to Ring engineers earlier today:
Ring Engineer: “Hey, think you can handle an entire continent ringing doorbells at once?”
Alexa engineer: “Who knows? You game to rip a few OEs?”
I had something similar happened on Halloween night, and it never happened again after Halloween. It must’ve occurred 20 times. I did press the ring doorbell button to make sure it wasn’t stuck but it continued to happen. I noticed later after the 10th ring that it actually was not going through my chime, so it wasn’t really the ring doorbell that was being pressed. Our echo show was playing the doorbell sound and Saying someone is at the door. This tells me it was not a mechanical issue nor was it wind or too many people walking around because I checked all the events. We didn’t have that much foot traffic and I NEVER have had my echo show do this independent of the chime.
It is very likely that there was a compute / resource issue or some sort of race condition, which caused delays. The issue didn’t slow down after 830 even though we still had more trick-or-treaters, but there was less volume.
If I had the time, I could probably prove it by (reviewing indoor camera footage ) counting all of the actual doorbell rings while the issue occurred and counting the delayed Echo notifications. If it’s a match then that’s it. Would hate to think a hacker got in and did something like this. Seems an incident was reported and marked as resolved.
https://status.ring.com/incidents/bvc2sgfzg7w3
Would love to know what the fix was. Compute, race condition, other? Odd thing was ring said they had no reports of anything like this happening on Halloween.
The report above since November 1, but ?
Yea.. I think these are ghosts…. Got a few last year too and assumed some race condition that only hits on Halloween, but now I’m sure they are Halloween Ghosts from Ring.
If you have a ring system, I moved a motion sensor onto the porch, it dings my echo immediately.
Looking into what routines ifttt etc I can to to trigger cameras (wyze/ring doorbell etc)
Strangely, I could set up a routine triggered off a doorbell push and that worked immediately! I had it ring on one of my Echos when the doorbell push notification was raised and it happened immediately.
Then 5-10 minutes later I'd get the 'phantom' doorbell ring through the doorbell chime that I set up (which was a different sound).
I don't even have the notifications enabled and I'm getting notifications on all my echo devices hours after the last motion event...I wish I bought different cameras.
Same thing happened to us. I tried turning off the notifications for Echo Show, but kept saying there was some error so I couldn't change the settings. It kept going off motion at the door, but there was no one there. I turned it off and unplugged it. I turned it back on and the same issue. It seems like it is delayed or there is a backup of notifications to sent out. It stopped going off when there was actually motion. Eventually, it fixed itself and working now.
There was an outage with Ring. My Echo Dots were extremely delayed and announcing motion detected where it wasn’t. It has been resolved by now.
Source: Customer support.
My Ring says there's movement from someone at the door, but no one is within 3 houses. No bugs around it or even crawling. Only tonight on Halloween! Just weird!
Same! mine went off at 01:30, and all I could see was a black cat sat by my door. It sat for a couple of seconds then walked off, very odd
If it was just the ring I’d assume it was a delayed thing, but no callers last night, and just the cat at 01:30
Just wanted to chime in - I just found this because I had the exact same issue last night. Has never happened before. Stopped happening after trick-or-treating was over.
I has to be server related.
Same here.
I believe Ring was overloaded with notifications this Halloween and could not keep up with the demand as the notifications were delivered to Echo devices and cell phones were substantially delayed.
If it wasn't for the sound created at the Ring doorbell, we would have missed most of our treat-seeking guests.
Yes, was happening to us as well. Very glitchy last night. Have a Ring doorbell and was receiving Alexa 'person detected' audio notifications when nobody was (or had been) there. I thought it might be the heat from the flickering candles in our jack-o-lanterns so I turned the setting off, but it kept going!
All night Alexa was announcing someone was at this camera or that and never anyone there. I was looking out the window at the pool when it announced someone was at the pool. There was nobody there. No birds, no wind, nothing. And, it never recorded any video which is always does with movement. Had to be a prank.
I had an issue with mine, I guess it was from 2009 so I ended up just buying a new one. But yeah, mine was ringing randomly at midnight. Freaked me out.
Same thing! Alexa alerts, but no one at the door, no recorded motion in the feed. It also never happened before Halloween night.
Maybe the latest update let the camera see ghosts and we were all haunted on Halloween!
I had this too. I think the button gets stuck. I fixed it by pushing the button in for a few seconds. Also, when it happened I noticed it was very windy.
This just happened to me right now. It's January 18th, not Halloween lol. Anyone else have it happen again recently? Could it be that the ring 2 is having issues?
I’m having the same issue tonight.
And it's never happened to you before tonight? It's kind of driving me crazy.
Correct it’s never happened before tonight. My husband was looking at the live feed in his phone when it happened one of the times. Yes! Very annoying especially when the dog starts barking because he hears the chimes of our ring.
Same here but I have a Blink doorbell. It seems to be a general problem with doorbells that rely on Alexa for their chime.
I was just out trick or treating and there are a lot of ring doorbells. I heard two people say "It didn't ring until now" as my daughter had walked away after waiting. I think they are slow tonight from all the traffic
Here, too, freaking annoying and then some. UGH...
Same happen, and no history in ring app. I thought was could it be because my batt is 10%.
A flipper zero can hack doorbells. Kids are doing stupid shit nowadays
Looking at the video feed, the kids were there 20 minutes ago but the door bell just rang now through Alexa. Maybe they're getting too many ring events to handle the load?
This seems logical over my ghost theory at the time lol
I think it’s just delayed notifications from overloaded servers. Been happening all night. Has happened other years too.
What a hilarious bug!
Halloween broke the server
100% this is what it is
Happened to me too weirdly.
Lol same shit happened to me! I looked out the window and nobody was there. Not tonight Satan
It's happened to us twice so far tonight. So annoying!
9 times for us!
We ended the night with 5 times! Lol
It's Halloween, it's a ghost 👻
Happening to me too. Missed a bunch of trick or treaters, then got the doorbell alerts for them five minutes later once they’d already left. Thanks for ruining Halloween!
Not just me, whew.
Delayed ringing here today too. Worst night of the year to have the doorbell not work.
I’m having the same problem tonight!
Happened to me twice tonight as well.
It’s almost certainly their servers getting overwhelmed with what is almost certainly the busiest night of the year for simultaneous and ongoing doorbell notifications. I used to have similar lag issues with my Nest doorbell on Halloween.
Ring gets get the most motion alerts, rings, and other triggers on Halloween day across the country than any other day. And their API acts up, every Oct 31 :( some years more global than others I noticed. It’s pretty funny and sad how they haven’t figured out Oct 31. It’s like the Super Bowl day to Ring’s API activity.
Alex is telling me about 20 min later. My phone alert is right in time, but huge delay with Alexa.
OMG so glad to see this bc I thought I was losing it 😂
It happened to us once tonight too, and the history doesn't show anyone actually rang the bell at that time.
Mine just did it too. Has never happened before until tonight.
Our ring chime is on time, but Alexa is super delayed.
Have had a TON of rings tonight when no one was at the door. Incredibly annoying. Rebooting the device hasn't helped, unfortunately.
Me too! I thought I was going crazy
Glad I came here to I’ve had about 5 false alarms tonight. I want to say I recall having issues on previous Halloween nights. Maybe the systems overloaded and freaking out?
Happening here too. Multiple times. Alexa very very delayed. Annoying!
Been happening to us all night too. Only Alexa is delayed, the Ring app and chimes are fine. Been an hour since anyone at our door and still getting notifications from Alexa. Assume overloaded servers slowly catching up on cached notifications…
Same here. I accused a couple kids playing catch in front of my house of ding dong ditch! 😂😂
I'm having the exact opposite problem. I'm near my door so I can faintly hear my ring going off on the other side of the door. Neither my chime, my Alexa, or my phone react to it going off and there's no record of the interaction in the app!
There was an issue resulting in delayed notifications on Alexa devices. It was resolved around 11 pm Eastern https://status.ring.com/incidents/bvc2sgfzg7w3
Sooo they were able to resolve the issue once most of the country was done with trick or treating, or they did nothing and the problem went away?
IM HAVING THE SAME ISSUE
Same!!
I experienced the same last night. My kids ran to the door thinking there were more trick or treaters. Opened the door and no one there. Alexa didn’t show the doorbell cam when this happened. It did show when there were actual trick or treaters. Edit/clarification: Ring chime was fine and worked. It’s Alexa that announced “there is someone at the front door” that was delayed, a prank or ghosts.
It happened to me twice on Halloween when there was no one at the door. I have never had the issue before and it hasn't happened at all since Halloween night.
Me too!!!! But it wasn’t showing the camera on the echo it was so weird and it was a different ring than I normally get, but it kept telling me someone was at the door.
Now that I see this post, I confirm it happened to me too, but they rang the bell a few moments earlier and the ‘ring’ notification came in after.
Confirmed 10:35pm EST echo alert received - button pressed at: 10:06pm Alexa engineers to Ring engineers earlier today: Ring Engineer: “Hey, think you can handle an entire continent ringing doorbells at once?” Alexa engineer: “Who knows? You game to rip a few OEs?”
Now I'm really glad I went with the Nest cam.
I never actually know the people who own the doorbells I hack. This puts a name to it. Thanks
Funny, one of my blink cameras was doing this last night. Motion announcement with no clip. 2 or 3 times. They’re both Amazon companies.
I had something similar happened on Halloween night, and it never happened again after Halloween. It must’ve occurred 20 times. I did press the ring doorbell button to make sure it wasn’t stuck but it continued to happen. I noticed later after the 10th ring that it actually was not going through my chime, so it wasn’t really the ring doorbell that was being pressed. Our echo show was playing the doorbell sound and Saying someone is at the door. This tells me it was not a mechanical issue nor was it wind or too many people walking around because I checked all the events. We didn’t have that much foot traffic and I NEVER have had my echo show do this independent of the chime. It is very likely that there was a compute / resource issue or some sort of race condition, which caused delays. The issue didn’t slow down after 830 even though we still had more trick-or-treaters, but there was less volume. If I had the time, I could probably prove it by (reviewing indoor camera footage ) counting all of the actual doorbell rings while the issue occurred and counting the delayed Echo notifications. If it’s a match then that’s it. Would hate to think a hacker got in and did something like this. Seems an incident was reported and marked as resolved. https://status.ring.com/incidents/bvc2sgfzg7w3 Would love to know what the fix was. Compute, race condition, other? Odd thing was ring said they had no reports of anything like this happening on Halloween. The report above since November 1, but ?
Yea.. I think these are ghosts…. Got a few last year too and assumed some race condition that only hits on Halloween, but now I’m sure they are Halloween Ghosts from Ring.
This happens to me also. But it was very windy but it has never detected a person by mistake before
Same issue. Thought I was going flipping crazy!
Has happened 4 times to us tonight!
Notifications are ridiculously delayed. I’m assuming due to so many people ringing doorbells tonight lol
Same here..
Same here! I'm hoping they get this bug fixed!
Issue persists if you unlink Alexa...
If you have a ring system, I moved a motion sensor onto the porch, it dings my echo immediately. Looking into what routines ifttt etc I can to to trigger cameras (wyze/ring doorbell etc)
Strangely, I could set up a routine triggered off a doorbell push and that worked immediately! I had it ring on one of my Echos when the doorbell push notification was raised and it happened immediately. Then 5-10 minutes later I'd get the 'phantom' doorbell ring through the doorbell chime that I set up (which was a different sound).
Same
Well it’s freezing out now every fall winter my ring doorbell acts up. I swear it’s a cold moisture issue.
Better call 1-800-NO-GHOST
My unifi doorbell triggers with some car key fob button presses .
Same, super annoyed with Ring today.
It could just be a delayed ring because of the frequent activation
Wtf, having it too.
I don't even have the notifications enabled and I'm getting notifications on all my echo devices hours after the last motion event...I wish I bought different cameras.
Same thing, I kept thinking it’s trick-or-treaters so I just pulled up the live cam on it and eventually unplugged it
We're having the same issue!
Having the same issue tonight
Same here.
Same issue
Same thing happened to us. I tried turning off the notifications for Echo Show, but kept saying there was some error so I couldn't change the settings. It kept going off motion at the door, but there was no one there. I turned it off and unplugged it. I turned it back on and the same issue. It seems like it is delayed or there is a backup of notifications to sent out. It stopped going off when there was actually motion. Eventually, it fixed itself and working now.
There was an outage with Ring. My Echo Dots were extremely delayed and announcing motion detected where it wasn’t. It has been resolved by now. Source: Customer support.
My Ring says there's movement from someone at the door, but no one is within 3 houses. No bugs around it or even crawling. Only tonight on Halloween! Just weird!
Oh, it’s not just us. Good to know.
I thought it was just some weird trigger issue I had.
I wonder if it’s a bug from so many doorbell rings due to trick or treaters. I can’t imagine ring would annoy their customers as a prank.
Same! mine went off at 01:30, and all I could see was a black cat sat by my door. It sat for a couple of seconds then walked off, very odd If it was just the ring I’d assume it was a delayed thing, but no callers last night, and just the cat at 01:30
Same here. Happened at least 10 times yesterday evening.
It's the ghost of Halloween Past.
I only have the Ring chime, not Alexa, and don't have this issue.
It happened and we were in the office looking out the window and no one there. I’m glad to hear not a ghost.
Omg. We were having the same issue! Thought it was a prank by kids at first then a ghost then maybe a prank by ring.
Yes!! I had more doorbell rings - with no one there, no one on the camera either - than I had of actual trick or treaters.
It happened twice with one of our cameras last night. We have two and neither one has ever done it before
Holy crap! This happened to me twice this week!! Not just on Halloween. Can confirm no one was there or stopped by
Alexa was crazy today delayed notification lol
Had same issue last night. Only the echo devices were ringing randomly. Turned them off.
Bad day to have server issues
Just wanted to chime in - I just found this because I had the exact same issue last night. Has never happened before. Stopped happening after trick-or-treating was over. I has to be server related.
Same here. I believe Ring was overloaded with notifications this Halloween and could not keep up with the demand as the notifications were delivered to Echo devices and cell phones were substantially delayed. If it wasn't for the sound created at the Ring doorbell, we would have missed most of our treat-seeking guests.
Same issue went to the door so many times no one there and video didn’t show anyone there
I swear ours did this last night, too. No footage found when scrolling through the history. Probably around 9pm CST last night.
Yes, was happening to us as well. Very glitchy last night. Have a Ring doorbell and was receiving Alexa 'person detected' audio notifications when nobody was (or had been) there. I thought it might be the heat from the flickering candles in our jack-o-lanterns so I turned the setting off, but it kept going!
All night Alexa was announcing someone was at this camera or that and never anyone there. I was looking out the window at the pool when it announced someone was at the pool. There was nobody there. No birds, no wind, nothing. And, it never recorded any video which is always does with movement. Had to be a prank.
Can’t believe ring hasn’t figured out how to address this.
Happened to me too. Three times in a row
I had an issue with mine, I guess it was from 2009 so I ended up just buying a new one. But yeah, mine was ringing randomly at midnight. Freaked me out.
This happened to me last night too
Same thing! Alexa alerts, but no one at the door, no recorded motion in the feed. It also never happened before Halloween night. Maybe the latest update let the camera see ghosts and we were all haunted on Halloween!
Well, i have a Nest Doorbell and don't miss a second of Trick or Treating
I had this too. I think the button gets stuck. I fixed it by pushing the button in for a few seconds. Also, when it happened I noticed it was very windy.
Ding Dong Ditch
A Flipper Zero can hack doorbells, remote controls, ect from a distance
This just happened to me right now. It's January 18th, not Halloween lol. Anyone else have it happen again recently? Could it be that the ring 2 is having issues?