The bulb light in my bulb camera is set to come ON at night at sunset and OFF at sunrise, which it does. But it also comes on during the day when it should be OFF.
I have turned OFF the “bulb on with motion option.”
I have turned OFF the “Ambient light option”
How can I keep the bulb OFF during the day.
It used to work OK and I have not changed any settings.
It just decided on its own to start coming on in the daytime.
Please HELP !!!
How are your schedules set? Bulb Cam has two. This might help:
You SOLVED my problem. Thank you,
I viewed the camera on my iPhone and looked for the on-screen icon in the lower left corner and toggled the light OFF.
I had never noticed that Icon before and NEVER toggled it before.
Apparently some random noise pulse must have triggered it ON.
Everything used to work OK.
I set up a schedule via the Wyze app on my computer:
ON at sunset and OFF at sunrise.
It worked perfectly for several months since I first got this camera.
Then one day I noticed the light was ON after sunrise.
I have tried checking all the settings that control the light via the Wyze App. They were all set right. Is there a light toggle option on the Wyze App just like the icon in the lower left side of the camera display on the iPhone? I did not notice any such option on the Wyze App.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank you.
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The only standard manual control that I’m aware of is that icon in the lower-left corner of the view pane on the Live View screen in the app. It should also be possible to create Shortcut Automations to turn the light on or off with a tap. That’s something you could do and then drop onto your Favorites tab if you wanted tiles for that on your app’s Home screen. The other lighting control is pretty much done through Bulb Cam’s Settings or other Automations.
I think that’s the answer, anyway. If I misunderstood your question, then please let me know.
You’re welcome! Glad to help!
Yes, you answered my question.
Thank you
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Now my schedule for turning the lights ON at Sunset and OFF at Sunrise
no longer works. To make it work, I had to toggle the Light on/off switch on the camera live display.
So what I thought was the solution is NOT the solution.
Please tell me how to set up the settings for ON at Sunset and OFF at Sunrise. This schedule used to work OK for several months. Now all of a sudden it does NOT work anymore.
HELP, again. Thanks
Oof, yeah, and when you do that I think the app presents a pop-up message asking if you want to override whatever schedule is currently running (as noted, there are two that could possibly be active). I understand why that’s not the solution.
Does your Bulb Cam know where it is? What I’m really asking here is if the Wyze app knows your home location (I set mine at Account ➜ Home) so that it can calculate sunrise and sunset times based on location. I’m not an iOS user, so I don’t know if you need to grant the Wyze app some kind of location permission in order to get that right on the camera.
After checking that, my next step would be to navigate in the app to the Bulb Cam’s Live Stream screen and then into Settings ➜ Advanced Settings ➜ Sync Time and hit the Sync button. That might be all that’s needed in this case, but I’m just speculating.
If doing that doesn’t work, then I’d probably consider more drastic measures, like re-adding the Bulb Cam to the app (going through setup again after a factory reset; I’d try doing this without first deleting the Bulb Cam to see if it preserves your settings) and/or uninstalling and reinstalling the Wyze app.
My first instinct, though, is that this is a time issue, and I’ve personally had some problems with time-based features on some Wyze devices in the past (some Bulbs and Plugs that don’t respect the designated time windows when Vacation Mode is enabled), but my experience with Bulb Cam and the lighting activating with respect to the sunrise/sunset offsets I’ve set (as noted in a previous post above) has been really positive. I think in your case the app and/or device doesn’t “know” where it is, so it’s picking the wrong times for sunset and sunrise, so making sure the camera’s location and time are correct is where I’d start with this.
We solved the problem together.
You suggested that I make a shortcut automation.
That made me think that there are automations I can do on the Wyze app.
So I made an Automation on the Wyze app for turning the light ON at sunset and then turn it OFF at Sunrise. I did this last night after Sunset. But to get the light ON last night I had to use the toggle on the display. This morning when I got up after Sunrise, the light was OFF. Then I had to wait until Sunset tonight to see if the light would go ON at Sunset. And it did.
I hope and pray that this is the permanent solution.
Thanks again
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You’re welcome, and that’s certainly one way to do it. I haven’t really experimented with that, so I’m not sure if it will conflict with any of the schedules you set in Bulb Cam’s settings. Because of that possibility, you might want to disable those, but that could depend on your own observations running it this way. Also, scheduling the lights on and off in Automations doesn’t give you the same kind of control that the device’s settings do, like what I described doing with my Bulb Cam: having Ambient Light come on at a certain level in the evening and then having the light brighten whenever a person or pet is detected. I think configuring this withing Bulb Cam’s settings gives you more flexibility, and if your Automation is now turning your lights on and off with the sunset/sunrise schedule you set, then that indicates to me that your Bulb Cam should be set for the correct location and time/time zone. Given that, I’d expect schedules you set within Bulb Cam’s settings to work correctly, so you may want to try that again at some point if you find that you want more control over the lighting levels than you can achieve with Automations alone.
If I have any problems in the future, I will try changing the bulb setting. But for now I will leave it alone and see if it continues to work OK. But I have learned a lot reading your suggestions.
Thanks again
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