Version 3.40 of the app reads New in the automatation button. What´s new?
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You can snooze notifications for a short time. Pre-created automations at bottom of list. Nice addition to the ruleset.
I would love to see a rule that would have the camera take a still picture and save it to the album every X (every 2, 4, 6, 8, 12 or 24) hours.
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I would like an automation to turn motion tracking on or off.
I’d like to add my vote for the following two options:
- Turn Pan Scan on/off
- Turn Motion Tracking on/off
I run a coworking office, and while I’m here during biz hours I want the camera stationary, watching folks coming in and out of the front door. Outside of biz hours and on weekends, I want the camera panning around and tracking any motion it detects. That way I have a better idea of what’s going on in the office when I’m not present. I already have it reset position to face the door via automation, first thing in the morning, so that one step is done!
I do recognize this also means that the Detection Zone would need to be toggled on and off, potentially via another automation step. That’s okay with me, and I bet others would want that functionality as well for other uses!
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I’ve put a request in for this over a yr ago.
Wyze is too busy working on SightSafe to devote attention to end user concerns. 
A good number of us have been asking WYZE to fix a BUG in the connectivity in the WYZE thermostat for three years.
@WyzeJasonJ are you listening?
Curious as to what the Connectivity Bug is? I’ve had my Wyze Thermostat in service since 12-19-2022 and don’t recall having any connectivity related issues with mine.
When there’s a network “glitch” in the connection between the thermostat and the WYZE cloud, the thermostat will not attempt to reconnect … EVER. The only option is to power cycle the thermostat. If the Wi-Fi network goes down, the thermostat will reconnect when it comes back up. If the Internet connection goes down, the device will reconnect when it comes back up. But if packets are dropped in an otherwise good connection, the thermostat cannot handle it (there’s a fair amount of inference in the last statement).
WYZE told us two years ago that they were on the case and would have a fix. Then … silence. My fear is that there is a problem in the hardware that they are using and they can’t bring themselves to admit it. However, the problem seems to have been introduced in a firmware update three years ago.
Several of us have come up with novel workarounds (e.g. using a WYZE plug to operate a relay that kills power to the thermostat and then powers it back up), but it seems like WYZE would care that a part of the thermostat community has ongoing issues with one of their products. I guess that’s not a valid assumption.
@WyzeJasonJ was the one who wanted us to submit logs so WYZE could troubleshoot, but nothing has ever come back from the hundreds of logs we all submitted.
One last thing in case you or others do experience the issue at some point. Turning off WMM (Wireless Multimedia Mode, as I recall) fixed the issue for me at my remote cabin. It apparently prioritizes network packets through the router to improve video streaming. That prioritization is apparently enough to drop packets from the thermostat, leading to the issue above.
FWIW, RamblingTexan
I had the t-stat for a couple of years (from launch). I never had this issue. I could interrupt my network manually or have it interrupted by a service outage. It always recovered.
I’m guessing this is a router setting.
Hello RamblingTexan, thanks for sharing.
I’ve not experienced this issue myself. I’ll tuck this info away for if and when I do.
My multitude of Wyze Devices and TP-Link Smart Plugs connect to a Netgear Nighthawk MR60 with two satellites.
I have a separate VLAN / Wireless Access Point in the house for any thing other than Wyze and IOT devices,
I have lots of potential wireless interference occurring in my home.
What router are you running? Is there by chance a microwave or cordless phone between your Wireless Access Point and your Wyze Thermostat?
As I mentioned, disabling WMM corrected the issue at my cabin. The problem is that not all routers offer a setting to disable WMM.
But to simplify the issue to its basics, I don’t need to muck with router settings to make my Apple iPhone or iPad work properly. Nor do I need to to get my Dell Notebook, my Samsung dishwasher, my friend’s Android phone, my Chromebook, my Brother printer, my Traeger smoker, my Chamberlain garage door opener - or any other Wyze device - to work properly.
Yes, the thermostat seems to need all quality of service features disabled at the router, but there’s no reason that it should need that.
I never turn on QoS. It has been a network bane that creates odd issues from the day it has been introduced into the Networking Cosmos. There are other devices that would have an issue with QoS that you aren’t seeing. Especially if the device talks back to the internet as much as IoT devices do.
I think it would be a great idea to add a triggerable turn off bulbs after turned on based on another device event. Something like doorbell turns on Bulb Cam lights for three minutes. The current automation allows turning them on, which requires a separate automation to turn them off but the device scheduler allows the bulbs to come on for X minutes.
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What you’re showing for other Wyze Bulb products does not yet exist in Automations for Bulb Cam and Accessory Bulb.
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My mistake… I missed that detail “bulb cam”.
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Yeah, and like @mike21 said, it’s possible to do with a second Automation (plus something like a Plug to act as a logical switch or even by incorporating a regular Bulb’s “Turn on for” Action into the primary Automation and then using its “Turns off” as a trigger in the secondary Automation), but there’s currently no native “Turn on for” Action for Bulb Cam and its associated lights. It’d be cool to see more parity with this, as other users have mentioned a desire to do this sort of thing elsewhere.
I am so confused on how Wyze has not added more automation options… there should be an option for automations to create a flow. Turn off action, wait 10 seconds, turn on action, wait for sensor activate… there is so much that could be done if we had the ability to create an automation flow. Lets take the outdoor outlet for example… plug it into a wifi router and the option to save the flow on the outlet so that it can be ran offline. Turn off device - wait 20 seconds - turn on device. (Super simple example). But if we had flows we could do so much with it. And also we need a TON more options like (wait) and so on. How we do not have this already is blowing my mind. So much potential.
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A new Wishlist item made me think of this:
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