Bus Check support

Getting started

1. Connect Bus Check from the Ring app and enter your email and ZIP code (the ZIP sets your time zone).
2. On your dashboard, add each bus run: a name (for example "Morning pickup"), the usual time, the school days, and which camera faces the stop.
3. Choose how many minutes early or late counts as an alert (default 5).

Runs whose watch window has already opened when you save them start alerting the next school day.

Getting good readings

• Use a camera that can see where the bus stops, and make sure its motion zone in the Ring app covers the road.
• Turn on Smart Alerts for vehicles for that camera if you have them. With Smart Alerts off, Bus Check works from all motion alerts inside the watch window.
• Keep motion recording on: Bus Check reads Ring's recordings, which need a Ring subscription plan.
• Dark mornings are hardest: in night vision, colours disappear and buses are judged by shape, with lower confidence.

Which alerts will I get?

At most one of each per run per day: the bus arrived (early, on time or late), the bus is overdue, or no bus was seen by the end of the watch window. Alerts appear on your dashboard and, unless you turn them off, by email.

A reading was wrong

Mark the sighting Wrong on your dashboard. Bus Check ignores it from then on and works out the run again from the remaining sightings.

No school today

Mark the day "no school" on your dashboard and that day's runs are skipped: nothing is watched and no alerts are sent.

Is this a safety service?

No. Bus Check is a convenience. It can miss a bus or mistake another vehicle for one. Always follow your school's own information and supervise the bus stop as you normally would.

Does it look at my children or read bus numbers?

No, by design. Bus Check never identifies people, never reads plates or bus numbers and keeps no pictures. It only records the time, vehicle type and whether the bus stopped.

Deleting your data

Use Delete all my data on your dashboard, or remove Bus Check in the Ring app. Either erases everything immediately.

Contact

Email michaelbflynn@gmail.com. We reply within two business days.

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