Why isn’t the Ring camera smart enough to notice that a garage door has been left open?

We live in the glorious age of AI. Here in our concrete block hurricane-resistant fortress we have a Ring camera in the back of the garage pointed at the door. It’s called “Garage” in the Ring app. Why isn’t it smart enough to wake up once every 30 minutes and, if appropriate, notify us that the garage door has been left open for half an hour? That doesn’t seem like a huge ask of our future robot overlords.

There’s an “AI” company here in Palm Beach County called Levatas that claims to be able to do stuff like this. Amazon/Ring presumably also has plenty of smart programmers. They claim to have delivered AI recently. Why haven’t they done the basics?

4 thoughts on “Why isn’t the Ring camera smart enough to notice that a garage door has been left open?

    • +1, that’s how I do it

      I got MyQ after I learnt that Homelink support in my Model Y (so it can control my garage door) is a $350 install. MyQ install was easy, it works fine, and I like being able to control/check open/closed status of the garage door from my phone.

  1. You have a camera inside pointed at the garage door? If so, is that configuration something people do frequently?

    Garage doors often have some degree of automation that knows whether it’s open or closed. That seems like a more appropriate place to provide the notification.

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