Is there anywhere a detailed description of how the modes (AWAY, HOME, DISARMED) under the MONITORING tab work? I do not have a home monitoring system, just WYZE cameras and doorbells.
Do I have to set/switch them manually or can they be combined with geolocation and/or automations)
What has priority - The set MODE or a schedule?
What has priority - The set MODE or a geolocation setting?
I wanted just to test the MODES and now I cannot switch them off?
I do apologize if my questions are already answered somewhere - I could however not find them.
I am missing a detailed description of all functions (and they are changing/evolving all the time) provided and updated by WYZE. I do not consider this a task for Wyze users. And the descriptions I found are not really detailed and lots of functions/parameters are not explained at all - especially how certain functions work together or wonât work together and what settings take priority over others.
Hopefully some can shed some light on my simple questions, many thanks for any help and feedback.
Hopefully someone else will chime in with their experience, but itâs been my understanding that they execute based on the most recent trigger. So the answer to what has priority is âwhichever one was most recently triggered.â
So you can combine them all you want, but they arenât a static state, they are sending a one time command that can then be changed by any other rule afterward. So if you click on âAwayâ which turns your cameras and notification ON, but then you have a schedule that triggers 5 minutes later to turn the cameras and notification back off, then the cameras and notification will turn off even though youâre still in âAwayâ mode which initially turned them on. but then you might leave home which may be set to turn the cameras back on even though your schedule had turned the cameras off a few minutes earlier. And so on.
At least, that is my general experience with how Wyze actions always work. Hopefully someone with nearly identical setup to you can confirm this, since I use HMS and things may work slightly differently for us in some ways.
I donât have an answer, but I like this question because itâs something Iâve been marginally curious about, just not enough to explore, because I donât use Home Monitoring Service (which is where I got the impression these modes have the most utility), so I figured these might not be something I could really use.
Iâll be interested to see what other answers are left here.
I think global tech-co eschews writing detailed help because customers eventually do it themselves out of frustration and âaiâ organizes and presents a useful (enough) mashup from their efforts plus the minimal docs the company does provide.
Because docs will need to be rewritten (sometimes almost continuously) to match the rapid pace of device and software changes, it is a virtual certainty that this will be the face and body of âeffectiveâ tech support for the immediate future.
When the modes first appeared on the app I went ahead and tried them out. That was a big mistake on my part as it messed up all my automation settings. Ever since I stay away from those. I think they only work âproperlyâ if you have HMS. If you donât, put a tape over them so you donât accidentally hit them
