Connecting Wyze Sense to Alexa

[nerdland]

@sbalezyw

Question: When it’s all ready and released for our use, will both ‘Motion Detected’ AND ‘Person Detected’ on the cams be sent to Alexa as two distinct motion sensor events that we can build Routines on in the Alexa ecosystem?

Great question. I’d like to know that too. I hope so!

If Wyze added a virtual switch, they wouldn’t even need to add this, per se, since it would allow users to create that routine on their own. I made a wishlist item for a virtual switch if you’d like to vote for it.

Wyze Virtual Switch

It would be really useful to add a “virtual switch” into the Wyze app. The UI would essentially function the same as a plug. If these could be added to Alexa, (or Google Assistant or IFTTT) it would unlock a lot of potential to make everything play nicely together. For example, Alexa current supports sunrise/sunset scheduling, something the Wyze app can’t do yet. I tend to get a lot of false positives at night due to headlights, and it would be cool if there were a way to automatically mute not…