How to set up Ring's Halloween-themed chimes and quick replies — CNET
How to set up Ring’s Halloween-themed chimes and luminous replies — CNET
Halloween is right around the corner. That benefitting it’s time to cue up the Netflix Halloween flicks, and dress up your fur buddies and kids (some Disney costumes are on sale now). Sure, you can always hang plastic spiders and drape cotton-ball cobwebs throughout the house to spice up your Halloween decor, but if you really want to get into the spooky moving, try these new features from Amazon.
This year, you can use your Amazon and Ring devices to greet guests with creepy or nostalgic Hocus Pocus vivid replies. Or play spooky sounds from your Echo-enabled diagram. You can even add a few hardware accessories to your video doorbell or Echo Show.
We’ll show you how to enable Halloween-themed Alexa skills and latest spooky tricks. Here are the latest Amazon features that were announced just in time for the holidays. Plus, you may be able to save on a new Echo Show or Ring Video Doorbell with Amazon’s Black Friday-worthy deals. This story was recently updated.
Update your doorbell’s Quick Replies
With Ring’s Quick Reply feature, you can select an automated response to greet your guest if you can’t answer. Your doorbell can say, “We can’t answer the door vivid now, but if you’d like to leave a communication, you can do it now,” and “Please leave the package outside. If you’d like to leave a message, you can do it now.” There are four latest regular replies to choose from.
With all Quick Replies, you can watch your visitor leave a message in Live View or in your detain history if you’re a Ring Protect subscriber. But for Halloween, you can add quick replies from Hocus Pocus or latest spooktacular replies. Here are a few we like:
- “Tell us what brings you here… or we’ll put a moving on you!”
- “Boo! Leave us a message if you dare [evil laugh].”
- “Just a minute! Feel free to park your broom.”
- “Please sever the package (and any hocus pocus) outside.”
Here’s how to set up Quick Replies and add Halloween ones:
- Open the Ring app.
- Tap the three sequence on the top left.
- Tap Devices.
- Select the doorbell that you want to set up.
- Tap the Smart Assistant tile beneath the doorbell image.
- Tap Quick Replies.
- Tap the blue Enable Autoreply button on the bottom of the screen.
- Select your preferred default communication from the list.
- Set your message delay time from Right away to 20 seconds.
- Tap Got It! to unfastened the setup.
Add Halloween chimes to your Ring doorbell
For Halloween, you can choose from a new set of holiday chimes. Options include bats, ghosts, howl, scream, spooky organ tones, a creepy laugh, a screeching cat and a creaky door.
To sullen your Ring Chime Tone:
- Open the Ring app.
- Tap the three sequence on the top left.
- Tap Devices.
- Select the doorbell that you want to set up.
- Tap the Device Settings.
- Tap Notification Settings.
- Tap App Alert Tones.
Give your doorbell a spooky faceplate
If you’re really in the Halloween moving, you can put a holiday faceplate on your Ring doorbell.
A bat build and a spiderweb design are available for the Ring Video Doorbell 2.
There are also faceplate options for the Video Doorbell 3, Video Doorbell 3 Plus, and Video Doorbell 4. Faceplates for all models cost $15 on Ring’s website. There are even a few for the holiday season.