Alexa Person detection announcements with wyze cameras

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Hey Angus is this feature still dead to you? Makes no sense. Maybe a Canadian thing?

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Sorry folks…didn’t mean to get hopes up on this. Looking at this again I don’t know how I am accomplishing it, but apparently virtual switches via SmartThings is involved. Again … sorry. Give me broken hearts.

PLEASE IGNORE THE BELOW—-LOOKS LIKE I AM WRONG (SORRY)
Looks like you can now turn on/off the camera with an Alexa Routine! I just found this recently and it works (so I no longer have to rely on IFTTT). I setup a routine for when my device arrives home to turn it OFF, and when my device leaves home to turn it ON. Cool. I also setup separate routines to verbally ask Alexa to turn the camera off or on (“Alexa, turn camera off”).

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Guess it’s my turn to not have it work then - I tried Discovering again but I can’t turn them off via routine. Are you doing it via “Smart Home” actions?

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I couldn’t find anywhere to do that

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Under routines, Alexa shows my cams are all unsupported.

However, I discovered a workaround if the camera is plugged into a smart plug you can actually turn the camera on and off with routines that way.

Alexa, “turn off driveway cam”.

To turn the cam back on, you have to make a second routine.

Alexa, “turn on driveway cam”.

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@timmo can you please post screenshots of how you were able to do that in Alexa?

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Aren’t you actually just turning the plug off or on and putting in the phrase , turn off driveway cam ?

that’s what I found also

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Right, that is the only way I could get the routine to turn off/on the cam.

When I went to select the cam itself for the action, they were all grayed out and shows these devices are unsupported.

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Yes me as well. You can see the Unsupported section in my second screenshot.

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Yep, I see now after I took a second look at your pic missed it the first time. :face_with_monocle:

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WARNING: MAY CONTAIN EVEN MORE MISINFORMATION
I edited my post above explaining my sorrow (apologies to all). For kicks though on how I have this setup (and at the risk of spreading more misinformation), apparently I am using SmartThings Virtual Switches, and from what I can tell this is working for me with how I have it setup. My head hurts though and maybe I’m still missing something here, but here are a few screenshots to show my setup in case this helps a sliver:

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No harm, thanks for the excellent apology. :slight_smile:

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Can this be done on multiple phones? Like mine and my wife’s phone.

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I really don’t know that is more of a alexa question than it is wyze question

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Actually now that I think about it…It should go over both of our phones as we are both logged into the same Alexa acct. You answered my question without even knowing it. Thanks.

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There you go , best thing you could do in a situation like that is set it up and try it

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It’s literally an announcement. I don’t think that really applies to the Alexa app installed on a phone?

Just checked. FireTV sticks, Echo Shows, and Echoes are valid targets. My Alexa app instances are not.

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No, the phone doesn’t actually make the announcement. It is used to configure Alexa to link Wyze and appoint an Alexa device to make the announcement.

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Yes I know. But it seems Bullet may have been under a different impression (“It should go over both of our phones”).

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Ah, ok, I didn’t know what he meant by that. :slight_smile:

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