I have some suggestions for people consider adding into their final survey response on the question that asks what is the most important thing Wyze should add/change with their rules. Consider the following items:
- Conditional Logic including And/Or operators.
- Sequential Logic for actions: right now Wyze rules blast all actions simultaneously, but they should execute in the order they are set in the rule. Related to this, Wyze could then add a “Wait X time Interval” action.
- This would allow us to do rules like: “when Trigger A happens, execute Action B, then wait 10 seconds, then execute action C and D, then wait 10 minutes and Turn off the lights” or something like that.
- Text to Speech or other custom sounds through a Chime or camera would be amazing for a rule option so we aren’t reliant on Alexa for all sounds.
- Enable or disable or trigger another rule as an action.
- Better lighting automation options. Right now it’s almost impossible to have lighting fully automated with Wyze where it 1) only turns lights on when a human enters the room, 2) leaves the lights on the entire time a human is in the room, even while sitting in a chair, and 3) only turns them off when a human leaves the room. Here are 3 possible solutions to make this finally possible:
- Allow a camera trigger for “No event with a person in it for X Minutes” --then as long as a person is in the room, lights stay on, and lights will only turn off if there is no event with a person in it for at least 10 minutes or whatever. The time interval is necessary because it is possible for a person to hold still for a couple of minutes to not trigger an event (and you wouldn’t want lights turning off just because a person held still for 10 seconds), but it is rare for a person to hold perfectly still for 10 minutes, so setting a longer interval will ensure lights aren’t shutting off while someone is still present in the room.
- Allow motion sensors to be grouped and have rule triggers for the whole group. So, if ANY motion sensor in the group detects motion, then the lights are turned on. If ALL motion sensors in the room are clear for 10 minutes, then turn off the lights. —This is needed because while a single motion sensor “Sensor A” can do okay at sensing big motion like someone walking into the room, it sucks at recognizing small movement such as when someone is sitting in a chair or couch watching TV. If the motion sensor isn’t within a few feet of that chair, then it will clear and turn off the lights even though the person is still in the room. If you have a second sensor, “Sensor B,” watching the Chair closely, then it will know a person is there in the chair, but as soon as “A” clears, the lights will still turn off in the room, then you might be in the dark for a while until “B” clears and then reactivates. That’s ridiculous. Allowing group rules will solve this problem and make lighting automation reasonable and possible.
- Just enable the previously mentioned conditional logic with And/Or operators. Then we could say "IF Motion Sensor A or B or C or D senses motion, then turn on the light; If Motion Sensor A and B and C and D are clear from motion for 10 minutes then turn off the light.
Granted I would also love all the little trigger requests listed in the first post, but the above bullet points would make the Wyze rules engine incredible in general, so just wanted to throw out some of those as suggestions to consider as some of the most important recommendations if you take the survey. I’ve been advocating for these updates to the rules engine every chance I get as it would improve things for the greatest number of people in the long term.
Thanks for your time everyone.