Add a Simulated Doorbell Button Press to App 🔔

[Crease]

It would be cool to have the ability to simulate doorbell button press in the app to help with setup, testing, and troubleshooting.

The app should have a virtual doorbell button somewhere within the settings for a given doorbell. Tapping this in the app would trigger the doorbell hardware to behave as if the physical doorbell button was actually pressed.

My Wyze doorbell experience so far is only with the Video Doorbell v2, and with that one I can actually hear my home’s mechanical doorbell if I press the physical button, but for models like the original Video Doorbell (Wired) and Video Doorbell Pro, which have separate chimes that can be placed remotely, such a feature could help a user to ensure that chimes are actually working as intended. Even with the Video Doorbell v2, this has potential usefulness now that Cam Pan v3 and Cam OG can be used as additional (and potentially quite remote) chimes:

@WyzeJasonJ

Today we are releasing a firmware update that adds support for the Camera as Chime function to Wyze Cam Pan v3.

[Crease]

Having given this some more thought, I think this kind of feature (if possible) would work better as an Action in Rules. Note that what I would want the Rule Action to accomplish is still a simulation of an actual Doorbell button press, not merely adding back the “Ring” Action that used to be present in the app for certain cameras (Cam OG and Cam Pan v3).

I want this to be a Rule Action so that I can create a Shortcut type Rule to trigger it, which would give such a feature some flexibility:

• Such a Shortcut could appear in the strip near the top of the app’s main screen and essentially act as a Doorbell button.
• The same Shortcut could be assigned via the Wyze Watch’s settings in the app so that a Doorbell button press could be triggered directly from the Watch.
• This could be eminently useful in troubleshooting situations, as when tweaking settings and between resets while trying to turn off the “Cameras as Chime” feature on one of my Cam Pan v3s.
• Having such an Action available for other Rule types (like Device & Service Trigger) could allow for other use cases, such as making the Doorbell ring whenever any configured camera detects motion, a person, etc., and I imagine the creative folk within the Wyze user community could probably suggest a number of other uses for such a feature, as well.