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Ring Wink: Shortcuts

Ring to Wink: Shortcuts integrations

When Ring detects motion or someone presses your doorbell, IFTTT triggers a Wink Shortcut. Set up a shortcut that turns on lights, unlocks a door, or runs any combination of smart home actions the moment activity happens at your door.
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2 ready-made Ring and Wink: Shortcuts Applets

Turn one on, or build your own. Ring can start an automation with "New Motion Detected", and IFTTT can then run "Activate shortcut" on Wink: Shortcuts.
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Have Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor build and run Ring and Wink: Shortcuts automations for you, like “Turn on Wink Shortcut when Ring detects motion”, with IFTTT MCP.

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Create your own Ring and Wink: Shortcuts workflow

Create custom workflows effortlessly by selecting triggers, queries, and actions. With IFTTT, it's simple: “If this” trigger happens, “then that” action follows. Streamline tasks and save time with automated workflows that work for you.

5 triggers, queries, and actions

New Motion Detected

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
 This Trigger fires every time a motion is detected at the given doorbell.
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New Ring Detected

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
 This Trigger fires every time somebody rings your Ring Doorbell.
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History of Motion Detections

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
 This query returns a list of every time a motion is detected at the given doorbell.
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History of Ring Detections

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
 This query returns a list of every time somebody rings your Ring Doorbell.
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Activate shortcut

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
 This Action will activate the shortcut you specify.
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Activate shortcut

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
 This Action will activate the shortcut you specify.
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History of Motion Detections

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
 This query returns a list of every time a motion is detected at the given doorbell.
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History of Ring Detections

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Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
 This query returns a list of every time somebody rings your Ring Doorbell.
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New Motion Detected

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
 This Trigger fires every time a motion is detected at the given doorbell.
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New Ring Detected

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
 This Trigger fires every time somebody rings your Ring Doorbell.
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If
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New Motion Detected
Select a trigger the automation will use
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New Motion Detected
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New Ring Detected
Then
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Activate shortcut
Select an action the automation will perform
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Activate shortcut

You can add delays, queries, and more actions in the chat.

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Find an Applet using Ring and Wink: Shortcuts

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