Person-only alerts aren’t safe
Ring can already tell animals from people. Search finds pets and wildlife. Search Party looks for lost dogs. There is even a $5/month Ring Appstore add-on (Wildlife Alert, third party, billed through Ring) whose whole job is naming coyotes and bears on cameras you already own. Live Smart Alerts still treat Person, Package, and Vehicle as the only first-class pings. That is a product choice, not a technical limit.
It is also unsafe. We feed a cat. A coyote came in while it was eating and tried to take it. The only reason I got an alert is the system mistook the coyote for a person. If it had classified the animal correctly and stayed quiet under People Only, I would not have known in time and could have got bitten myself.
You already detect the animal. You already sell the missing category through the Appstore. Put Animal / Wildlife / Predator next to Person, Package, and Vehicle as a native toggle. Charging again for a safety alert your models already run is a problem.
I am sending this to Ring/Amazon support as well. If there is no real response or a native animal/predator alert option, I will keep escalating through official support and any consumer channels that apply. This is Southern California coyote country. Person-only is not good enough.
It is also unsafe. We feed a cat. A coyote came in while it was eating and tried to take it. The only reason I got an alert is the system mistook the coyote for a person. If it had classified the animal correctly and stayed quiet under People Only, I would not have known in time and could have got bitten myself.
You already detect the animal. You already sell the missing category through the Appstore. Put Animal / Wildlife / Predator next to Person, Package, and Vehicle as a native toggle. Charging again for a safety alert your models already run is a problem.
I am sending this to Ring/Amazon support as well. If there is no real response or a native animal/predator alert option, I will keep escalating through official support and any consumer channels that apply. This is Southern California coyote country. Person-only is not good enough.
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