Ring has added an AI feature called Single Event Alert that bundles repeated motion pings from the same moment into one notification.
It’s in beta for Home Premium subscribers now in the US and Canada at $20 per month, giving you one alert per event, rather than a bombardment.
According to The Verge, Single Event Alert looks at Ring’s AI Video Descriptions, spots when your camera is seeing the same thing for a while, and groups the motion into one notification. So if your kids are in the backyard for twenty minutes or someone’s mowing the lawn out front, you won’t get peppered constantly. You just tap through once and see what’s happening.
This arrives as part of Ring’s broader AI push on Home Premium, which already includes the summaries in Video Descriptions and a smarter video search. In practice, you get a quick text blurb in the alert, a single tap to jump to the clip, and the system now knows when to stop pinging you during one scene. Honestly, little tweaks like this make living with a camera way less annoying day to day.
There is plenty of upside here, with fewer alerts usually meaning fewer missed ones because you stop tuning them out. It also helps if you share notifications with a partner, since one grouped ping is less noisy across multiple phones. And yes, this should be especially handy on busy streets where cars and passersby used to trigger a stream of repeats.
It’s still a beta, though, so expect some edge cases where the grouping is too eager or not eager enough. What you actually want from a camera is the important bits, not another feed to manage, and as Ring keeps tuning summaries and grouping together, you get a cleaner snapshot of what’s happening without the constant buzz.
