My mom is 90, no longer can drive. wants to stay out of managed care.
I use the cams to keep an eye inside and outside.
She’s pretty deaf.
The driveway cam is the floodlight cam pro. when it detects motion, three bulbs inside the house will flash red to alert her.
one of the lights - where she spends most of her time - I put a new light on one of those light clips from home depot - the switch is always on, but the bulb is off in the wyze app. The other two lights replaced one in the bathroom, and the other in the study - those only alert her if she turns on the light switch in the room.
She’s learned to like having the lights alert her.
I don’t know if this kind of accessibility (creating technology that can be used as assistive devices for people with physical impairments) is what they had in mind, but I think that it should be part of their thinking in a broad definition of “accessibility”, and I like reading about other community members doing things like this.
I’m not sure what you mean about “light clips”, but I’m definitely a fan of switch guards and put those on all my regular toggle switches whenever I replace the regular bulbs with smart bulbs, because I know that otherwise I’m likely to flip the switches out of habit, so it helps to train me to ask Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa to adjust the lights for me.
light clip - a light socket, with a spring clip… it’s off until told to blink… the idea is to have minimal training for mom - the flashing light means someone is coming up the drive… she used to never hear them knock.
Telling her after I put it in, didn’t sink in until one day - the light flashes, so she called me to ask why the light blinked, while talking on the phone - she said - “just a minute, someone is at the door”… She likes it now…
fwiw - she’s two miles away from me.
fwiw - my original plan was to use a lightstrip and blink it. one of my underlying ‘requirements’ was for the thing to be
mom’ proof - something new that she didn’t have to interact with .
One thing which I didn’t mention in the OP… the trigger does a light blink on not just mom’s three bulbs, but I also flash my lights at home… blue for mom… at home - red means person in my driveway, green=fiance’s driveway… The lights usually blink a full second before the notification goes off on the phone. In case you’ve never played with the blink on the bulbs - usually < 3 seconds of blinking, and they blink the selected color at 100%
I’m also considering telling her that if the lights blink blue, or if I set off the inside sirens - she needs to find her phone and call me because I need to tell her something important, and she isn’t checking messenger or her phone
great thought… so, how does alexa or google home get notified of the >person detected< ? that event comes off the camera and i assume is sent to a list of targets. if that assumption is true, then the camera would have to know to notify alexa, right? in the wyze automations, there isnt a place in the actions for alexa or google home… only wyze devices show up there.
I’m inferring here how events are sent over the internet. then the next question is could i get that to work when the camera is two miles away, and over the internet to mom’s house.
I have also used this function - I have a mid-century wooden column with a white marble top and when the Wyze driveway camera detects motion, it flashes the column 3 green flashes. Because of my wife forgetting to close doors, I triggered off the front door and back door sensors - if they are left open for more than 30-seconds the column lights up red and stays on until the doors are closed. Picture attached showing the column with a Furbo unit on top.
I have it linked to google home… there are a whole bunch of issues there i’ve yet to delve into . but the wyze app doesnt know much about google in it’s automations as far as i can see…
for the most part i get the devices in google home. groups though im not sure of or havent played enough with. i have google linked and not alexa. in the wyze app automation there is no option to have an event signal google home - I dont have a nest device either - so i assume that there is nothing on the google side to talk to … my phone ? google home is there, but i dont think it’s used as an event handler. I’ll admit - i havent played much with that.
