Prior to the changeover from Shortcuts to Rules, a single schedule could be used to control multiple devices. For example, you could turn on/off multiple cameras with a single schedule shortcut. Those rules were imported (grandfathered) into the new Rules architecture;
However, there is presently no way to create a new schedule rule that controls multiple devices. Please add this to the Rules feature.
Yes this. I canāt believe we lost this feature. Itās now a mess to try to schedule things and I can only imagine how bad it would be if you have a dozen or more devices. I actually signed up just to figure out why this option has changed for the worse.
Iām a new owner of 8 cans and a slew of sensors. So i didnāt get to see what got deprecated. I think it be even better if we could just 'call a ārule(s)ā that weāve already created and execute it/them in a scheduleā¦like I used to do in 24 years of enterprise software programming.
Iām trying to do this and it doesnāt work at all. I created a rule to mute notifications from 6:00am to 9:00am and from 4:15pm to 11:30pm but I still get notifications during those time periods.
Am I doing something wrong?
Can you post a screenshot(s) of your rule setup?
I have case open with tech support. They are reviewing the log file because everything seems to be set correctly. I start getting nailed with notifications during the entire āmuteā period. Their suggestion was to roll back to the prior version or try the beta version which I havenāt done yet.
But basically this means the rules donāt work AT ALL?!
They also suggested just turning off the bell iconā¦but seriously that sucksā¦that just means i have to manually turn it on and off, and again the rules donāt work? I must be missing something.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
If you do manually turn off the bell icon, does that stop the notifications?
When the start time of this rule passes by, does the bell icon change from on to off? (It should.)
If the answer to the first question is yes, but the answer to the 2nd question is no, then that does tell us that this rule isnāt working.
I just tested myself and the bell icon goes off when the time passes (after a few seconds). It could be a problem with your particular user account on the server in which case hopefully support will be able to resolve it.
Interesting points you make.
Answer to question 1 yes the notifications stop entirely if I manually turn off the bell.
Answer to question 2 the bell icon does not turn off ie slash thru it during the time periodsā¦
Does this help narrow the issue? Thanks for your help and great ideas
So i actually just ran into this myself. I just bought some new products. Decided to delete my old schedules and start from scratch (which was a bad idea). My old disable notifications worked find. The new one doesnāt. The bell is crossed out but still get everything. If i manually do it seems to work fine.
I, too, would like this functionality restored, As I build out my Wyze ecosystem, I inevitably want to add new devices to these existing scheduled rules, but canāt. With only 1 device action per new rule, the interface becomes instantly cluttered and a mess. (There isnāt any way to arrange/order rules in the interface, either; they appear in the reverse order of how they were created/entered. This inevitably leads to an even more cluttered mess. Are we seeing a trend? The interface is a huge factor in user satisfactionā¦)
Another way to do this would to allow shortcuts to be scheduled, so that way we can tweak the shortcuts and have them applied at various scheduled times or as other triggers define them. To me, this seems like the easiest solution.
Anyone found a fix for this yet? Iām having the same issue.
Unfortunately not. The current schedules are basically unusable for any practical propose. The most frustrating part is they used to work in such an intuitive, powerful, and flexible way.
This had taken away most of my satisfaction with this product which is such a shame.
I really hope Wyze fix this. Like @thenoblewoods suggests, they could just fix this by allowing a shortcut to trigger at a set time. Doesnāt even need an end time. So simple. It used to work that way
Seems like the ability to apply the same schedule to multiple devices should be something that is pretty basic and would make the product much more user friendly. It is a pain to have to make multiple copies of the same schedule and apply them multiple times.
You guys should try grouping your devices - this worked for me with 3 light bulbs
Just tried setting a rule for a group of cameras to āupload a short video to the cloudā at a certain time. The group of cameras contained, one wyze-cam v2, one wyze pan-cam and a wyze-cam v3. The rule triggered at the correct time but all three cameras registered an error in the Rules History and no video was captured.
For one of the cameras (wyse-cam v2) I have another rule which just triggers that camera at a preset time to produce a video and it works just fine.
Sure would be nice to have one rule work on multiple cameras.