I have my floodlight hardwired on, and a wyze switch that doesn’t have any load attached. I set up two rules to control the flood light status without turning off power to the camera.
Rule 1) When Switch Turns on, turn on floodlight
Rule 2) When Switch Turns off, turn off floodlight
This works well for the most part. The camera stays on, and I can control the floodlight with my switch.
But there is a bug: When “Rule 2” is enabled the floodlight does not turn on when PIR motion is detected.
Note: The floodlight will still turn on if motion is detected by the camera.
The flood light remains on “auto” under the “floodlight control” section after either rule runs.
Again, after the turn off rule runs, the light will still turn on if motion is detected by the camera, but will not turn on if motion is detected by the PIR sensor.
BUT…. (And I remember this from another test I did awhile back) it takes everything 10 minutes to reset/cool down.
I have no idea why… but look at the time stamps. At 9:11 the floodlight triggered where the in between 10 minutes did not, and my last trigger was at 9:01. Appears as if this is only the case if motion and PIR are set to trigger the floodlight, a new variable discovery, as I did not make the connection last time.
TLDR: It appears that the PIR will not work after a switch toggle, until you receive your next motion notification (or maybe until your camera cool down as ended).
Testing notes:
I left “motion detected by camera” and “motion detected by PIR sensor” checked for all of my testing
I do not pay for cam plus
Testing steps:
I waited until dark then walked outside without toggling the switch. The PIR sensor worked as expected (tested several times)
I toggled the switch then walked outside. The PIR sensor didn’t work. The camera sensor did work-- but there was a long delay [note I received a motion notification]
I walked in, then back out and the PIR was working as expected again (tested several times)
I toggled the switch and the PIR and camera would not trigger the light
checked the PIR and camera sensors after 3, 4,5,6,8, and 10 minutes, each time the PIR and camera wouldn’t work.
Around minute 11 I received a camera motion notification, and the light turned on. After this the PIR sensor worked as expected.
I toggled the switch and the PIR and Camera no longer triggered the light.