Add More Actions for Wyze Automations (Rules)

[Crease]

A recent request in a related topic mentions Lamp Socket v2 as a Trigger, but I’m much less interested in that than I am in seeing full user-selectable Actions for for Lamp Socket v2.

@Loki

Requested Rule Actions:

Bulbs / Plugs / Switches / Strips

• Turn on for X seconds < current 1 minute minimum restriction (Wyze Switch, all plug types, all lighting product types including Floodlight, Lamp Socket, Spotlight and v3 Pro Spotlight)

Lamp Socket v2 should have this as well as regular “Turn on” and “Turn off” Actions, and the “Turn on for” range should allow times beyond the 5-minute limit currently imposed by Lamp Socket v2’s “Lights Off Timer” setting.

When Lamp Socket v2 was launched, the FAQ section on its product page indicated that Automations could be used when Lamp Socket v2 was connected to a compatible Cam. That mention was eventually removed, but this still appears in a related Help Center article (as of this writing):

Features like Automations, AI detection, and controlling the lamp socket rely on the paired Wyze Cam.

Apparently Lamp Socket v2 has partial Automations support, as pointed out by another Forum member:

@zcchai

I can’t find the “Add Action” option for Turn on Lamp Socket v2, even though that action does appear under Essential Automations – Lights on if I’m home.

I think the issue might be that Lamp Socket v2 was never properly added or recognized as a device, so I’m unable to add any device-specific actions for it.

The problem here is that this support seems to be limited to Wyze’s pre-baked Automations and not something that users can actually select or configure. Showing this in “Essential Automations” gives users the impression that Automations have been implemented for Lamp Socket v2 but in an incomplete fashion (since we can’t select them for Actions in building our own Automations).

Yes, I can use the “Lights Off Timer” setting to control the lights, but that has at least a couple of limitations:

1. Choices for the lights on duration are limited to a small number of preset selections.
2. Enabling this requires the user to to set a “Schedule”, which is not desirable when the user wants full 24-hour availability. My current work-around for this (where I’m using Lamp Socket v2 in a windowless storage room) is to set the schedule for 03:01-03:00, but this should be wholly unnecessary.

Potential benefits of allowing users to access Automations Actions for Lamp Socket v2 include the following:

1. No schedule for motion-triggered activation is required or enforced when using regular Automations.
2. The user has greater flexibility for how long the sockets should remain on when triggered by an Automation.
3. The camera (or other Wyze device) triggering the sockets would not have to be the device that’s linked to the Lamp Socket v2s (where the sockets are a direct accessory to that camera) but could be any other triggering device, including Wyze Cams that aren’t specifically compatible with Lamp Socket v2. For instance, a button press on a Video Doorbell v2 could turn on a Lamp Socket v2 in an interior lamp to let a person with a hearing impairment know that someone is at the door. All kinds of flexible uses would become possible if users were given control via Automations in the same ways that Plugs and many other Wyze devices are.

Implementing this feature would also require giving users the ability to assign a unique name to each Lamp Socket v2, as we can with other devices, so that we can select a specific device for an Automations Action. Lamp Socket v2 should have that feature anyway, though that may be a subject for a different Wishlist request.