With the amount of products being released growing and the requests for more Alexa interactions increasing, we have consolidated them here.
This list is for Alexa triggers (Wyze events that can trigger Alexa, aka “when this happens…”). For Alexa Actions, see this related topic: Add More Alexa Actions.
Please click VOTE at the top to indicate your desire for more Alexa Triggers. You can reply to this topic with thoughts on which of these are most important to you, We understand that having these requests consolidated in a single #wishlist topic means that you can’t vote on them individually. That is why commenting about your favorites, use cases, and personal significance is important. Wyze will consider those comments in prioritizing implementation.
Existing Triggers (“when this happens…”):
Contact Sensor Opens
Contact Sensor Closes
Motion Sensor Detects Motion
Motion Sensor Motion Not Detected for HH:MM
WYZE Lock Locks
WYZE Lock Unlocks
WYZE Lock Jammed
Person Detected by Camera
Doorbell is Rung
Requested Triggers (“when this happens…”):
When a contact sensor has been open for (x) minutes
Wyze Plug turns on/off
Camera detects motion
Trigger routines based on Sensor groups
Sensor low battery condition
Vehicle is Detected by Camera
Wyze Leak Sensor detects Leak/becomes Clear (and for X Time)
Climate sensors (Temp is X, Humidity is X)
Additional AI Triggers (Car, Person, Pet, etc)
If more (reasonable) suggestions are made in the comments, they will be added to the above list.
I would like for Alexa triggers to be more than just the sensors. There are instances where I could use a plug powering on as a trigger, or a camera sensing motion as a trigger.
For example, if motion on camera were captured, I’d like to be able to tell Alexa to say “motion sensed on backdoor camera”. But since camera motion is not an Alexa trigger, I don’t think I can do it.
[Moderator Note: This is a merged #wishlist submission. The requests of this post have been added to the list at the top.]
I am trying to utilize Wyze Cam and Sensors as my home security system solution. However Alexa Routines do no accept multiple triggers and you have to create SEPARATE ROUTINE for each sensor and every night SEPARATELY TURN THEM ON with Alexa.
Facts:
(1) Wzye’s eco-system iOS App app sends a notification when a sensor is triggered. However, there are two caveats (a) Wyze has not acquired “Critical Alert” certification from Apple. So Wyze’s notifications are silenced if Iphone is on Silent or “Do not disturb is turned on”. ADT app for example has this Critical Notification setting enabled on iOS devices. Wyze MUST get this ASAP (b) You cannot change notification sound and current sound may not even wake you up.
(2) Wyze’s “Mute” and/or “Unmute” options for sensor works very well within Wyze App. I mean you can create Shortcuts and Schedules to activate/deactivate sensors individually or in groups. However, this setting does not affect the Alexa intergration.
**Possible Solution:
(1) Wyze can configure its system to make its current native setting “Muting” and “Unmuting” sensors to take affect its interface with Alexa. In other words, if I mute (deactivate) a sensor within Wyze App, then it shall not send any notification to Alexa Skill. Therefore, by this workaround, I can set individual Routines in Alexa for each Sensor, but I can unmute and mute, arm and disarm, if you will, sensors within Wyze app with a single shortcut or schedule (which is already a feature of Wyze) app and wont have to worry about enabling each routine every time I want to arm or disarm my system.
(2) Wyze can define the “Grouped” Sensors as a new device while translating this setting to Alexa Skill, so that multiple sensor can be seen as one in Alexa and I wont have to create separate routines for each Sensor.
Either solution 1 or 2 above will fix the issue and Wyze extends its customer scale by giving people opportunity to create their own home security system with ease of single command arming and disarming. BETTER YET, if both 1 and two above can be achieved, then I will once again salute Wyze who already deserves 5 star rating by their product quality and reasonable price. Thanjs
I would like to see all of the features in the Wyze app, plus some additional, available in Alexa as triggers and actions for routines.
For example:
Wyze Cam v2 (new feature)
Wyze app allows on/off by time but not location. Alexa only has Cam v2 person detection as a routine trigger and no actions available.
My goal is to be able to turn the camera on/off by voice and/or location. The reason I want this added to alexa is so that I can trigger multiple things to happen at once when I am home/away. Please add location as a trigger.
Please add cam on/off.
Wyze Contact Sensor
Wyze app offers door left open for “x” time for notifications.
Alexa offers contact sensor opens/closes but not is open/closed for “x” time.
Please add open/closed for “x” time to Alexa as triggers.
Wyze lock
Wyze app offeres auto-lock and auto-unlock based on location.
Alexa only allows you to lock (not unlock) the door in a routine. Alexa does not allow wyze lock to be part of a location based routine.
Please add location based lock options in alexa.
Please allow unlock option in routines.
Think the siren on V3 is great idea and realize some people have already requested motion activated siren rather than manual.
However, I’m wondering if there is a way to implement your Amazon Echo device to play an alert “siren” sound when motion is detected on a particular camera as to possibly wake you up… Or if not with the V3’s, maybe implement on the new Wyze home security hardware? Thoughts?
Please add capability on the Alexa app to be able to enable shortcut rules via voice command. I have shortcuts that turn on and off certain motion detection for when I leave the house and would like to be able to activate them easily without going to my phone.
So in my Wyze app, i have a shortcut button set up so that motion detection is turned on for all three of my cameras and alerts are unmuted.
I would like my Alexa routine set up as such:
Trigger: “Alexa, I’m leaving”
Action: Activate the above shortcut
Does that clear it up? I have a set rule in my Wyze app that i would like to have turned on via alexa