I have three Wayze OG Cameras in my mother’s NYC apartment. She lives alone and is in good health. Can I program the app to send me a sound notification if she calls for help?
You can set up the sound detection, which will notify you of detected sounds that are higher than what you set as a threshold. But won’t be able to discern specific “help” wordage amongst the sounds.
Have you looked into pendant alarms or something of the sort?
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I wouldn’t trust a cheap camera with my family’s safety.
My Dad wears a pendant from a security company. If he falls or calls for help someone is standing by.
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In addition to the pendant or watches like @Omgitstony mentions, I have my mom set up with several Amazon Echo Dots. I set up a bit of a hack where she can call 911 from them or if she calls out “help” it will text and call me.
She has 2 levels and a basement and I put 5 of them throughout the house, but it is probably a bit overkill, 3 probably would have covered it since they have pretty good sensitivity.
She does have to remember to say “alexa call 911” or “alexa help”, but I wouldn’t want it triggering any time the word “help” was said.
If you want something more reliable than that, the professional companies that specialize in this have fall detectors that the person can wear, and they can also set it up so if the person is home but no motion is detected for x minutes, to check in on them.
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Thank you for your reply. We tried pendant alarms, but she can’t use it due to memory issues.
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Bummer. Sorry to hear that. Dad’s memory is good but his hearing is gone without hearing aids at 92.
The nice thing about the newer hearing aids is they have bluetooth. My mom’s she could tap her ear twice and say “hey google, call 911” but that seemed to complex of a process to remember in an emergency. Not that “alexa call 911” is much different but it eliminates the tapping the ear factor (which is somewhat sensitive to how you do it) and also works if she doesn’t have them in (such as at night).
I do know someone that has gotten the service with the fall detection sensors, motion sensors, etc and it works well but is pretty pricey.
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The Echo Dot suggestion is excellent, thank you. Unfortunately my Mom has memory issues and she won’t remember to say one of the Alexa trigger words. We can’t select the word “help” which is what we would want.
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That is great.
Works great for phone calls and receiving text messages since they are read out loud.
I sent a picture of our Thanksgiving dinner and he said the alert told him it was a photo of people sitting around the table with food on it.
Yeah it becomes a challenge, there are services like I mentioned that will monitor for falls and also lack of movement, but you could also use a wyze cam and if you haven’t gotten a motion alert in a certain amount of time, check in? But seems like something more reliable and monitored might be in order here.
As others mentioned setting sound alerts up and playing with the sensitivity is an option but seems like it probably wouldn’t be consistent (either get lots of false alerts or not get the ones you need).
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we’re considering an Apple Watch for my father just for the fall detector.
I really wish apple would make a right or bracelet with just the health & fall detecters from the iPhone . . .
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There are some very low profile and slim ones out there for the professionally monitored systems, but of course Apple does it their own way 
When researching I saw necklaces, clip on pendants, and bracelets that were about the size of a modern fitbit (pretty small).
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it’s not that I’m locked to apple, but at the moment they seem way ahead on those sensors.
I don’t wear a wristwatch; I get too attached to the time, looking again as soon as I’m not sure how long has passed–and it seems not good for my stress levels/anxiety/whatever.
I went to a pocket watch simply because the effort to take it out, rather than just turning a wrist, stopped the constant checking.
That worked until I had to pull out reading glasses to see it!
But by then there were big numbers on the cell phone I grudgingly carried,
But anyway, the last thing I need is all that information and business on my wrist!
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I haven’t worn a watch since high school, don’t think I could ever go back to having something on my wrist all the time. I just look at my cell phone when needed, and as you say the effort to take it out means you aren’t tempted to look when not needed.
I don’t even have a visible clock in my bedroom.
I do have a parent that wears a fitbit watch all the time, it is very small and slim and she likes the data it gathers. The National Institute of Health gives them out every so often if you agree to share your data for their studies (which having been in the health care field she is happy to do). Unfortunately it is not one with any sort of fall sensor or call for help ability. The one that had limited connectivity to the cell phone was much bigger and she didn’t want that.
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That is interesting.
The only timepiece I carry is a cellphone.
I do have timepieces in every room of my house and one in each bathroom. Most time pieces are radio-controlled.
The clock in the family room has the day of the week so I know what day it is.
PCs, laptops and tablets all have clocks.
My car has a GPS-controlled clock.
I rarely wear a wrist watch. The last one was a dressy Casio I bought in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 2005. It’s radio-controlled and the battery is still running for nearly 20 years. I would not believe it if I didn’t see it.
Now I mainly use clocks to show up on time for appointments and to see what day it is. Life is simple.
I love my apple watch. It monitors all kinds of health data I didn’t know I cared about. I accidently activated the hard fall alert while wrestling with my 9 and 5 year old sons. If it triggers it shows a countdown to call emergency services and you have 10 seconds to swipe to cancel it.