ring-mqtt-ha-addon VS simple-thermostat

Short answer is no. It's been a while since I last looked at it but the long answer is "kinda in a hacky way, with a lot of work, and Ring is gonna fight you the whole way because they want you to pay."

https://github.com/tsightler/ring-mqtt-ha-addon

If you have an existing Ring security system, you can either integrate all of it's sensors and alarm control with Home Assistant via Ring MQTT or get your own ZWave hub, connect all the sensors to that, and use Alarmo to create your own security system. I'm doing the former since I want to pay for the peace of mind that comes from a professionally monitored security system, but can switch to the latter if Amazon gets too greedy.

I used this add-on so I can continue to use Ring and get to use the sensors for automations. But otherwise yeah most Ring accessories are surprisingly DIY friendly.

Speaking of Home Assistant, Ring integrates really well with Home Assistant using the add-on version of ring-mqtt. I pay for Ring for the convenience but can also control it and easily use its sensors for other things this way. If Ring does go away I'll bite the bullet and use Alarmo instead.

If you happen to also be using Home Assistant then the Ring-MQTT HA Add-on is nice but I haven't pushed it back from Home Assistant into HomeKit. I'm only using that for dashboard display right now.

You got it, I'm using the ring mqtt addon with a picture-entity card. I didn't have much luck with the out of the box ring integration but this one works fantastic for me: https://github.com/tsightler/ring-mqtt-ha-addon

I was able to get mine to work with the following add on. https://github.com/tsightler/ring-mqtt-ha-addon

tsightler/ring-mqtt-ha-addon: Hassio addon for the ring-mqtt script (github.com)

I used this library with a D1 mini. I then use this to put in my dashboard There are some examples one is a receiver code that you can get your codes, they also have a lot of ACs codes already. There is also an IRServer example that integrates with MQTT and has some stuff to put in your configuration.yaml so you can get it into HA easily I used this for 6 Samsung ACs, LG Dryer, some basic fans with IR. Samsung is the same each command is like all commands in one on, temp, etc. It has all this built in. I think if you have a IR receiver on your esp board and it will sometimes pick up the commands sent by the regular remote so if someone else uses the dumb remote it will update in HA. It's not perfect but it works pretty well. you can get all in one boards on ali express if you search iresp8255 they have transmitters and receivers.

Here's a cut out screenshot of my nest integration for two separate thermostats using the Simple Thermostat front end customization. (Dining room is on and heating, upstairs thermostat is off to save energy, but it still reports both temp and humidity)

It's using simple-thermostat, works great: https://github.com/nervetattoo/simple-thermostat

It's a Vertical Stack in Card with Simple Thermostats and some Mini Graph Cards to show the data. I really need to clean up that section of the dashboard, but it still looks better than the stock thermostat card in my opinion.