A most excellent idea! For now I agree there’s no feature in the WYZE app to control how long the plug stays on so a manual (via the app) appears to be the only way so far. Thanks for the tip!!
Totally agree - why would wyze make a motion sensor or door /window/ anything sensor and not make an alarm. This would be a cheap make for them. It it could pair the same way the sensors pair.
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Update: I’ve figured out how to have a rule for the mini motion sensor to activate the plug with my “LOUD” siren & a second rule for the siren to turn off after 5 min (+receive notification and ck via camera what’s going on in the house). You can enable & disable the mini motion & siren separately … so I don’t have the siren turning on while we come & go around the house. Next challenge is to see if it’s possible to have a short cut button to just enable/disable motion-siren setup for quick ease of use…School of trial & error!
Hi Maxpm, what is the manufacture and model of the siren you are controlling? What are you using to control the wyze outlet. You mention a rule for mini motion. Thanks for the details
There’s a speaker in the hardware. Why not use it for alarm purposes if need be. please implement this and continue to be user first Wyze!
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A partial solution would be that when detecting a camera moving you can activate a pre-configured siren sound in spotify via google home or alexa de echo there is a video on YouTube. But I can’t understand well. Regards
Also adding a Voice that identifies where motion is detected/what door has been opened.
For example: “Front door open/closed” or “motion detected in living room” or customize anything you want it to say during a trigger.
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Thanks Ivisoria,
I’ll check this out for my indoor wyzecams.
WYZE ASK - The localized siren would be useful for outdoor wyzecams (where google, amazon and IFTTT-speakers aren’t yet).
In general it would also bring attention to intruders of the fact that a camera has spotted them and is recording them.
Chris
Actually I think it would be a deterrent method for the thief. Because if the camera detects any movement, a spotify playlist will sound like a siren or police sound. The sound would come from inside the house is more than clear.
Folks, I have implemented a solution for this. It’s not nearly as straightforward as if there were a smart siren/alarm, however it’s effective and pretty straightforward. So sharing in case this is helpful to your needs…
My application:
I have a special-needs child who is a flight risk, especially at night. He’s a teenager and physically able to defeat several physical locks. We needed a siren/alarm to wake us up in the middle of the night if necessary. But didn’t want this same alarm to go off during the day when simply moving about the house. Also, I wanted a solution that was as automated as possible so that it didn’t rely on human intervention to “arm” a system every night (people forget and then tragedy strikes the one time our guard is down).
My solution:
In addition to sensors, the key was 2 Wyze plugs in series and some powered alarm/siren (which one can get from Amazon or elsewhere). The actual alarm should be merely an on/off powered device (light/sound when power is on). Plug that into smart plug #1 (we’ll call “alarm-plug”). Add rules for each sensor (contact/motion/camera) to turn ‘on’ alarm-plug when motion/open detected, otherwise alarm-plug stays ‘off’. Test rules with alarm-plug plugged directly into the wall. Then plug smart plug #2 (we’ll call “timer-plug”) into the wall. Set a schedule rule to power-on timer-plug at X’oclock pm and off at Y’oclock am. Then plug alarm-plug into timer-plug. That’s right, a double smart-plug in series: closest to the wall is on a schedule which governs when the whole system can work, while outer plug controls the actual alarm power switch responding to sensor triggers.
I also set up some ‘shortcuts’ for the timer-plug to manually ‘arm’ and ‘disarm’ the system by merely turning on/off the timer-plug directly (you don’t need the shortcuts, but it was a little easier to explain to other household users by having a simple special button to arm/disarm).
I hope that helps.
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I appreciate your time to respond, what is not clear to me is if it is possible to tell me which one you chose from powered alarm / siren If you can tell me any mark or if you have a photo of the alarm to guide me
Thanks a lot again
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I appreciate your time to respond, what is not clear to me is if it is possible to tell me which one you chose from powered alarm / siren If you can tell me any mark or if you have a photo of the alarm to guide me
Folks, I have implemented a solution for this. It’s not nearly as straightforward as if there were a smart siren/alarm, however it’s effective and pretty straightforward. So sharing in case this is helpful to your needs… My application: I have a special-needs child who is a flight risk, especial…
Sorry, but I think your product let’s me down in one critical area. Very important. I have an outhouse, I want to secure it with one of your alarms at night. I want to know if a burglar gets in. You would think this is possible?
Well picture this. I am in bed, asleep, the burglars enter, Your device sends an alert, but my phone is ion sleep mode - I just carry on sleeping, the burglars rob me.
So you say to me turn of sleep mode on my phone? Now I get woken not only by your notifications, but by every notification I receive at night. Hardly practical. It’s gonig to be very likely that ytour customers will sleep through the critical notification because they are =bombarded with notification noises at night. As far as I know there is no way for ONLY Wyzcam alerts to break through sleep modes.
Solution - create a Wyze smart alarm. This is a physical device that sounds when the alert is triggered in the system. I could plug one in near my bed. Problem solved.
As far as I can see until you produce this ytour device has a mission critical flaw, and will not stop night burlgaries. This is important.
I definitely think a siren is a great idea for a new product. But I wonder if this product could kill two birds with one stone and be a loudspeaker as well? Ideally it could do both (And be outdoor-rated.)
I know I could buy an outdoor smart speaker or something, but those are all a lot more expensive than this would need to be, I think. Plus I’d have to switch to a different app if I wanted to talk to someone, so I wouldn’t be able to see the video at the same time. Audio quality doesn’t matter at all for something like this. It just needs to be loud, with enough clarity to distinguish a human voice. Crappy landline phone-ish audio is fine.
I presume that the upcoming outdoor camera will probably have a built-in speaker, as the current indoor cameras have. But frankly, they’re just not very loud. In an outdoor setting, especially, someone 15-20 feet from the camera may not hear it at all, especially if there’s ambient road noise, etc.
Anyway, I hope both of these products come to the market, but they may be able to be the same product.
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Sounds good to me. Meanwhile I have cancelled my order as the Wyzecam cannot perform the basic function of reliably informing me of intruders at night
Has anyone figured out how to make the speaker on the Wyze cameras make a noise when detecting motion? Better yet how about a noise on Alexa? Seems suprising Wyze has not addressed this I would gladly pay for a separate speaker tha could make a noise based on a motion from a camera or motion sensor?
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Having read the comments and suggestions some of you, perhaps, are asking way to much from a $20 camera so think outside the box. Here’s my solution for folks who turn off their phone at night, thus not hearing notification, folks who want a loud siren or who otherwise wish to be advise of a trigger event from a camera, contact or motion sensor. Simple and it’s working for me! Set the Camera desired to trigger “turn on a plug” and plug whatever you want into that plug be it a siren, a radio or other audible source that, of course, plays/goes off when turned on. I too would like a compatible Wyze siren/audible alarm but in the meantime, this work-around is working great! Examples available upon request.
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