It would be great if the Wyze Cam (v3/v4) spotlight could be flashed.
Ideally, I want to try to deter critters from eating my vegetable garden by flashing the spotlight. I realize that there’s a “turn on spotlight for a minimum of 1 minute”, but I’m thinking of turning the spotlight on/off more rapidly.
Welcome to the Forum, @sl33nyc! I like this idea. I can’t speak to all the lights, but the Bulb Color, Bulb Color BR30, Light Strip, and Light Strip Pro all have “Color Blink” as an available Action. With some thinking outside the box, I could imagine seeing camera spotlights treated as lighting products, sort of like how the Cam OG and Cam Pan v3 can be used as accessory chimes for the Video Doorbell v2.
I imagine there are other use cases for your idea, too, like if someone was doing some testing or using a camera with a built-in light (OG, v3 Pro, v4) for detection and wanted a brief on-camera visual confirmation that it was working.
Those animals would more than likely ignore that pretty quickly. I have a lot of critters that come through my backyard and even with several cameras turning on their spotlight and a back porch light… they don’t flinch. The just look at it and go about their business.
Flashing the spotlight would be great, but a proper webhook system would allow for all sorts of fun insanity. Given the lack of an API, I suspect that opening up webhooks is probably not something Wyze has in its plans… sigh
Action in Rules/Automation to play chime on Wyze Cams
I live in the second and third floor of my home, and a single chime is not enough to be audible throughout the house. My brother lives is a 3000 sqft 3-story home, and it has the same problem. There is no option to buy/add more chimes to Wyze Doorbell Pro,
It would be nice if existing Wyze cams can chime when the doorbell is pressed. That way, it can be served as an indoor camera and a doorbell chime. V4 has option to turn on/off siren. It would be nice if it sounded more pleasant than a sound that is associated to a break-in.
As a temp work-around, you could make Wyze bulbs Blink if the doorbell button is pressed. Not ideal but it would be something in the meantime.
This actually used to exist for Cam Pan v3 and Cam OG models:
I have no idea exactly when or why it was removed, but I’m guessing it’s part of Wyze’s rollout of this feature to other cameras to be used as accessory chimes for Video Doorbell v2 (where this is controlled with that Doorbell’s “Camera as Chime” setting). That leaves Video Doorbell Pro users out in the cold, though, and I’m not aware of any technical reason why a camera “ring” couldn’t be triggered via a Doorbell setting or via a Rule, so I agree that it’d be good to have this feature reintegrated.
I second being able to use a rule to control motion tracking being on or off. We use the camera in the kids room, and during the day motion tracking is very useful. But at night, every time they shift in their sleep the camera shifts its position too, often to a foot which takes the rest if the kid out of the frame. It’s making it impossible to keep the whole kid in the frame during the night, which was the whole point of the camera for us. And sometimes the sound of the camera rotation wakes them up. Having to manually swap between motion tracking or not every night is irritating. Please make it so we can set a rule to turn off it for the night!
New rule for doorbell camera V2
I would like to be able to create a rule for the doorbell camera V2 to turn on Do Not Disturb for a Schedule. Example:
Create Rule
Schedule
Add Action > Turn on Do Not Disturb
Start Time 12:00 am
Then a second Rule to turn OFF Do Not Disturb at a specific time
I tried to ask for a rule or a toggle for Motion Tracking, but Wyze didn’t accept it ? so that we could manually turn it on\off. THey could add that toggle right along w the other selections under the video for the Pan cams. There’s times when I would like to be able to manually turn the cam to watch something, but then it goes right back to home position. To be able to watch for more than 20 seconds, I have to go into settings - detection settings - disable detection zone, then back out & now I can manually watch. But when I’m done, I have to go back thru the steps, turn it back on & remap detection zone.
We should be able to turn track motion off & back on instead of having to jump thru all these steps!
This topic is for Actions associated to Rules. This is your request:
If you’re already in live view, then why don’t you just tap Track Motion beneath the viewer to toggle it off (make it not green) momentarily?
That strip of controls beneath the viewer is wide, so you’ll probably have to swipe it right-to-left in order to expose that particular “button”.
Edit: I just realized that your post may have been (probably was) about an earlier iteration of Cam Pan, not the Cam Pan v3 with the newer UI, so my suggestion likely isn’t applicable. (I’m guessing, because I don’t have any cameras with the older UI.)
Awesome! Thanks seapup! I shr do hope it’s enabled, shr makes alot more sense to have the ability to turn on & off instead of having to jump thru the hoops every time.
I wish it were that easy Crease. I do have it toggled off so it’s not looking around.
But even w that disabled, cam will still go back to the home position when I manually move the cam because detection zone is enabled.
I’d like to be able to manually move the camera to look at somethng for a minute or more, but w detection zone enabled, it will go right back to the home position after 20 sec. & it’s a real PITA to have to keep moving the camera back to what I’m trying to watch w\o having to go into the settings to disable detection zone, then re enable it when I’m done.
I appreciate your input 
My bad. I interpreted the issue as being related to motion tracking only. I think now I might have a better understanding of your issue.
I also enhanced my previous response, because I had another thought and realized that we’re probably talking about different equipment.
Cheers!
Yes, using on my Pan v3. I have to have detection zone enabled as the cam’s are in trees & would chase the branches around if detection zone wasn’t set.
This is how another wyze customer put it in forum Seaspup linked in conv above:
Pan Cam: Suspend return to detection zone or home position during live streaming
When you have detection zone set for a wyze pan, it returns to its home position after no motion is detected for like 10 seconds right, that’s good (though it would be cool to be able to change the amount of time)
But when you are in live view looking through the camera and you move it to watch something it will try to keep going to home, so you have to keep moving it. The ability to have the camera not move when in live view would be much better.
Oh, for sure. That totally makes sense.
That kinda seems like a no-brainer. I can understand both sides of it:
From that perspective, it would make sense to just have something like a toggle control, maybe in the control strip below the viewer, just like the Track Motion control I outlined above. Having said that, such a feature seems to me to be less like a potential Action for Rules than it does an additional control to be added to the UI—sort of like a settings shortcut. I’m thinking of Rules Actions as being more like steps in a hands-free automation (though I realize also that Shortcut Rules are manually triggered).
Thanks for the enlightenment!
rather than have the cam go to the home position 20s after moving it off the home position, might be better to move it to the home position 20s after the user stops moving the camera. That way you can look around without the camera taking back control. Just have to slightly (or radically) move the camera to restart the 20s timer. Would also be useful to be able to change the timeout period.
This has been out there for a year, but I’d like to add an upvote for this request. I posted a question a short while ago asking if this existed and was pointed here.
My reason for wanting this is it would extend coverage of an area that has gaps. I have two Pan Cams that cover most of my driveway, but there’s a gap. So if something happens at one end, it would be great to “tell” the other camera to point in this direction. Your waypoint idea sounds like it would be a good way to implement this.
In each rule, add option to receive notification when the rule is activated. Would be good to know and a way to verify the rule is kicking off.
