I’ve got the same issue. I have 8 cameras, 4 work with Alexa, 4 don’t.
I’ve removed / added the skill. Removed / added the cameras. Nothing has fixed it.
Well that sucks but I’m not sure that function is actually out of beta yet , is it?
Maybe it is I don’t remember
i did that before but did it again. Deleted those cams in Alexa app. Cams discovered again but without the person announcements again. just those 2 cams. ugh. so weird
that doesn’t make a lot of sense… I could always switch a car in my house that has that feature i guess and make it the one pointing outside but i shouldn’t have to do all that.
Just to belabor the point, did both of you say “Alexa, Discover” after re-adding the cameras and skill? That did the trick for me the first time I wanted to enable the announcements.
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I believe this may be related to another issue which I’m experiencing which is some wyze cam feeds are not being accessible on my Echo Show devices when I ask “Alexa, show me [camera name]…” The workaround someone discovered is to go into the Wyze app and rename the cameras that are not being accessible. Once renamed, go into the Alexa app and delete that camera and get Alexa to rediscover the camera. Once it is re-added, that camera’s device settings will have the Announcements tab.
However, this is only a temporary workaround as after a day or so, the device settings will no longer show the Announcements tab again (and the camera will no longer be accessible from the Echo Show device).
There is another thread that has more info and a response from Wyze’s development team:
Is there supposed to be a difference between saying “Discover” and tapping Discover?
I get the same result either way. The camera is added but still no announcement capabilities.
I’ve tried removing cameras from Alexa, renaming in WYZE and Discovering in Alexa. No announcements.
Oddly, the cameras that Alexa can’t announce Person Detection with are the 4 that have Person Detection enabled in WYZE.
I’ve tried disableing PD, no change in Alexa.
I don’t think so; but I just didn’t originally know where they hid Discover in the app.
A data point, I see the feature is enabled on a camera in my account that has been physically powered OFF since BEFORE I enabled the feature… So it is not hardware/firmware dependent at all, at least for me.
There’s gotta be some recipe of special incantations that will get yours working…
Since 75% of the People detected at my front door are my dog I’m not too disappointed that Alexa isn’t announcing it. 
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I just deleted all my Wyze devices from Alexa, disabled Wyze integration and then re-enabled, linked and discovered my devices. Two out of seven cameras are missing the PD settings page. Can’t see anything different about the two non-working cameras. All are running RTSP firmware.
Is that an improvement over what you had before or the sane?
Hard to tell. I just read about all this and had another reason to remove ALL Wyze devices and then re-enable the functions in Alexa. I do see that if I rename the failed devices the PD feature becomes available. If I change the name back to the original the PD tab is gone.
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That is good data, and useful to Wyze if they’re interested in fixing this bug.
I just tried renaming 3 of my cameras. No change in Alexa. Still no announcements.
Just confirming…name changed in Wyze App?
Yes.
Then Discover in Alexa. It picked up the new names but no announcement options.
Try rebooting the Wyze cams after you change their names in the Wyze app.
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Was worth a try but made no difference.
This worked for me bro. Thanks!
Hey Angus is this feature still dead to you? Makes no sense. Maybe a Canadian thing?