# Ring doorbell \>\>\> Google home
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ring-doorbell-google-home/2924
**Category:** General
**Created:** [6 September 2018 23:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ring-doorbell-google-home/2924 "2018-09-06T23:06:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [10 September 2018 21:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ring-doorbell-google-home/2924/21 "2018-09-10T21:12:00Z")
> [@Paul-Reed](#):
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> There is almost always a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem.
Though in this forum, we tend to go for high-tech solutions to low-tech problems!! 😉
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [10 September 2018 21:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ring-doorbell-google-home/2924/22 "2018-09-10T21:22:22Z")
> [@TotallyInformation](#):
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> Though in this forum, we tend to go for high-tech solutions to low-tech problems!! 😉
I must be the worst offender - I'm using over 50 nodes to construct a weather dashboard, when I could just.... ahem... [visit this url](https://darksky.net/forecast/53.473,-1.055/us12/en). 😛:😜
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [10 September 2018 21:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ring-doorbell-google-home/2924/23 "2018-09-10T21:31:12Z")
> [@Paul-Reed](#):
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> I must be the worst offender - I'm using over 50 nodes to construct a weather dashboard, when I could just.... ahem... [visit this url](https://darksky.net/forecast/53.473,-1.055/us12/en). 😛:😜
Yes, but where is the fun in that!
BTW, looks like you are not so far away from me if that is your home town. Donny is just down the road from me as I'm in Sheffield.
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### Author:  [@JayDickson](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JayDickson)
#### Post date: [13 September 2018 04:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ring-doorbell-google-home/2924/24 "2018-09-13T04:01:41Z")
Yeah, but that website probably can't turn the lights on if it's cloudy...
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [15 September 2018 18:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ring-doorbell-google-home/2924/25 "2018-09-15T18:18:40Z")
By way of update, I've now switched from node-red-contrib-chromecast to [node-red-contrib-cast](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-cast) which is a fork of the chromecast node, but is currently being actively developed.
A number of new features have been added, such as being able to control the volume level of device, and Google TTS.
Please be aware of [this open issue](https://github.com/Hypnos3/node-red-contrib-cast/issues/7) though (which is inherited from the chromecast node).
Paul
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