Managing Locations on Your Ring Alarm
Learn how to group your Ring devices together by their Location and make adjustments to help keep your home protected. For those who have Ring Alarm and other devices at their home and place of business, grouping devices by their Location allows you to check the status of your devices all in one place.
Learn more about Ring device Locations
Learn more about Locations for Business.
Creating Locations
When you set up your Ring Alarm, you'll be taken through the process of creating your first Location. If you already have existing Locations, you'll be given the option to create a new Location or add the new device to an existing Location.
Viewing Different Locations
To switch between Locations, do the following:
- Tap the name of the current Location at the top of the dashboard.
- Tap the Location you wish to view.
Editing Locations
To edit the name or street address of a Location, do the following in the Ring app:
- Tap themenu (≡).
- Tap theSettingsbutton.
- UnderGeneral Settings:
- If you want to change the name, tapName.
- If you want to change the address, tapAddressfollow the in-app instructions to choose a new address.
Deleting Locations
To delete a Location, do the following in the Ring app:
- Tap themenu (≡).
- TapSettings.
- At the bottom of the list, tap the redDelete Location.
- Confirmremoval of the Location. Please note that all devices need to be removed from the Location or reassigned to another Location before you can delete the Location itself.
Important! You can only delete Locations for Basic Ring subscriptions. If you need to change your subscription's location, we recommend editing your address in the Ring app.
Managing Shared Users for a Location
You can also use your Location Setting controls to provide access to some of your Ring Devices to Shared Users.
Learn more about Users and Roles.
To access your User controls in your Location settings, do the following in the Ring app:
- Tap themenu(≡).
- Confirm you've selected the Location you wish to edit (top left).
- Tap theSettingsbutton.
- TapShared Access.
From the list of Users, you can do the following:
- Add or remove specificShared or Alarm Guest Usersfrom a Location.
- Change Shared Users' access level.
- Select what devices a Shared User has access to.
Changing the Location of your Ring Alarm
When a Ring Alarm is moved from one Location to another, it needs to be removed from the Location associated with the old property and added to the new one. Follow this procedure to move your Ring Alarm system:
- Change your current monitoring status to self-monitoring:
- If you are in Practice Mode, you will need to Exit Practice Mode and confirm that you want to exit. You will then be put into Professional Monitoring¹ and need to switch to Self Monitoring.
- You can re-enter Practice Mode to refresh your skills at any time.
- If you are enrolled in Professional Monitoring¹ and want to change to Self Monitoring, tap Self Monitoring and confirm that you want to end Professional Monitoring.
- Open the Ring app and tap themenu(≡).
- TapLocation Settings.
- Tap theMonitoring.
- TapMonitoring type.
- Choose Self Monitoring:
When you reach the new Location, change your Location’s address:
- Tap themenu(≡).
- Tap theLocation Settings.
- Tap theLocation.
- If you want to change the name, enter the new name in theLocation Namefield.
- If you want to change the address, tap the address field and follow the in-app instructions to choose a new address.
- Once you have moved, change your monitoring status back to professional monitoring¹:
- Tap Professional Monitoring¹ and confirm that you want to enable professional monitoring.
- Tap themenu(≡).
- Tap theLocation Settings.
- Tap theMonitoring.
- TapMonitoring type.
- Choose the new type of monitoring you want.