Google Home/Assistant Integration

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Been waiting for some time now for the ability to tap on one of my many cams from within Google Home Android App and see the video feed. But, as we all know, Google wants you using Chromecast and Wyze doesn’t play well with others.

So, I was fiddling around with building routines in Google Home for powering on a cam on voice command. Since there are no listed Actions for Wyze Cams built into the Google Home Integration with Wyze, I decided to just get creative and type my own action command in.

I got a surprise Easter Egg! Google Home showed me the Live Feed Video of my Wyze Cam.

I need others here to test this and confirm that this exists and I am not just dreaming… or that I am just really late to the party and this is already a known feature.

I set this up with my “Garage Cam” (V3) which is listed in Google Home as a device along with all my other cams, so that is the name I use here:

  1. Built a routine in Google Home with the trigger being the verbal phrase “Garage Cam”
  2. I built a custom Action “Turn On Garage Cam”

When I play the routine from within Google Home, it opens the stream and plays it with audio (cam was already powered on, I never turn it off).

I tested this with all my V3 and it works. I tested it with my PanCam V1 and it works. I tested it with my Doorbell V1 and it does NOT work.

I then tested the routine using the microphone button at the bottom of Google Home… same results. All I have to say is the name of the cam and the video appears.

Then I tested the same audio command using the microphone button without the routine “Turn On Garage Cam”. Same video stream opened. So, I dont need the routines at all. Just Google Home opened and say the phrase.

I experimented with other phrases: Open Garage Cam does NOT work, Show Garage Cam does NOT work. Looks like the “Show” command now works.

I also experimented with other variables with dismal results:

  • The verbal command ONLY works from within the Google Home App
  • It does NOT work using just Google Assistant
  • It does NOT work if I place an icon for the routine on the desktop.

Hope this helps someone with a workaround until Wyze gets full integration working. Post back with feedback.

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1037

Tried this multiple times, did not work for me. I am using Google Home from my Samsung S21 Ultra. Google Assistant doesn’t work at all with Wyze Garage door opener.

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1038

Sorry to hear that.

I just went back into Google Home and ran my routine. It told me “Sorry, I couldn’t reach Wyze Home”

Then I realized that I had changed my Wyze Two Factor Authentication after I set up my WyzeCam routines in Google Home.

I had to go into the Google Home Settings and relink my Wyze Home “skill” in “Works With Google”.

Once I relinked Google Home with my Wyze account, the routines for each cam and the voice commands started working again. This is the Google Home Live Video feed from one of my cams.

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Please note, the routines and voice commands all failed me when using Google Assistant. They only work for me in the Google Home App.

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Wait, is that live video in the google home app? Did they FINALLY add that?

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I don’t think it is actually supported per se.

I think I just discovered a single stable wormhole to the multiverse… Farscape Anomaly. That’s all.

But yes, that is Cam V3 live feed video from within the Google Home App.

I am currently a couple hundred miles from my cams on LTE and just tried it. It tried to connect but timed out. The screenshot was from WiFi. Will try again tonight and see if it still works.

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So I got home and tested again. Seems to work when on the WiFi, but fails to load on the LTE. Not sure if it is a bandwidth issue or something else.

Here is my Garage Back Cam routine loading the live video feed with sound within the Google Home App while phone is on the WiFi (screen record doesn’t capture sound):

Here is the landscape (NV IR has engaged)

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What does the routine look like? Cuz when I go to click on the v3 in the google home app it just gives the typical this camera can’t be streamed here message.

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Yeah, clicking on the cam and other normal methods don’t work. That’s why I think this is just a hidden entrance.

Post #1036 :point_up:

Using the verbal phrase “Turn On X Cam” after clicking the verbal command mic within Google Home also works.

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This didn’t work for me… ill try again tmrw after relinking my account too see if it fixes it

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UPDATE:

So I did it again WITHOUT creating a routine like I did the first time… And it WORKED!!!

Saying both “Turn on” or “Show” BOTH worked!

It seemed to work with every single camera except the doorbell took forever to load.

@WyzeTeam y’all need to make it work properly now in the actual camera menu now, AWESOME!

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Great! :smiley: This is the first confirmation I have received that it works since I found it and posted it. Thanks!

I tried the “Show” command and it now works. The VDBv1 still times out and fails to load.

Google Home updated on 6\8, the same date of my original post revealing this, so it may have been introduced with that update.

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So now that we know it works, it’s weird how it doesn’t just show in the settings page like it does for other cameras with Google Home app.

Also, I guess the mic in the Google Home app is different then the regular Google Assistant mic because only the mic in the app understands what to do, even though I thought they were the same thing, weird.

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Yeah, Google Home and Google Assistant appear to be two different VA AI bot assistants, so they work separately. Integration needs to be done individually for these on both platforms. Maybe by the time we hit EOL on these cams.

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@UserCustomerGwen please add me in the Google home beta tester. based in Malaysia, would like to use the home monitoring manually with Google home integration

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Any idea when google assistant will be supported in Canada? You say it’s available in the US.

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Google Assistant integration stopped working

Fix this please. Only works for cam pan now
Google Assistant integration

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It’s been over 4 year since Google assistant integration started and wyze still hasn’t figured it out?

There are very simple things to add that we don’t have:

  1. ‘starter’ actions available for more wyze device behaviors. Pressing a button on a doorbell for example is an obvious starter to build an automation rule, but there is no starter for this.
  2. The reverse is also easy, expose actions on wyze devices that you can initiate from Google Home. Turning a camera off for example, very easy to do in the Wyze app rules, but you can’t trigger this from inside Google Home/automation.

Wyze continues to sell devices like the new doorbell v2 that claim to be able to announce on Google Home speakers… It’s even in the troubleshooting steps on the wyze site! However it is impossible to get Google home speakers to announce the doorbell button press. At this point its false advertising and something that needs attention

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I saw this too, I was so excited to get the doorbell v2 and replace my old nest doorbell. Unfortunately after hours of setup… now I have downgraded to the Wyze doorbell that won’t announce a person or doorbell press on any of my 9 google devices. But hey, the picture quality is good.
Even with Hubitat, Smartthings, and IFTTT, I can’t figure out how to make this work.

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I do not think they care to be integrated or open. They seem happy to farm their own proprietary ecosystem. I had a conversation a few years ago with a product manager and he was very luke warm about for us to have a fully integrated cross-platform solution. He was interested in the use cases that they can support, but that really doesn’t solve the problem in the market nor what we will pay for. This doorbell announcement is a great example. Until they replace all my google nest displays and speakers, they got nothing.

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I managed to get announcing happening on my Google Home speakers… but it is a pain, requires a secondary Wyze device, and there’s a 5-10 second delay between Doorbell press and the Google Home announcement.

  1. Set up a Rule in Wyze. Upon doorbell press, turn ON a secondary Wyze device that you’re going to use as a trigger. This can be a plug/outlet, a light bulb, a camera, whatever you have handy.

1b) Set up additional rules in Wyze to turn off that secondary device as often as you can. Since it’s a trigger, you want it to reset to its default state. What I did is all of my wyze cameras, upon sensing motion or sound, they will turn off that secondary device. I have about 8 rules set up to turn that secondary device off, I want it to trigger as often as possible.

  1. In Google Home, set up Automation to trigger upon seeing the secondary device turn on. As actions you can turn on lights, send a broadcast announcement to your Google Home speakers, etc. I also set steps to turn up my Google Home speakers volume so I hear the announcement. You could also play music, etc.

That’s pretty much it. The only trick here is you need Wyze to turn OFF that secondary device somehow before somebody rings your doorbell again, otherwise the secondary device is still on, and will not trigger the Google Home automation.

As a stretch hack… my secondary device is a Wyze v2 Camera, I have it pointing at a small oscillating fan. As part of my doorbell notification in Google Home, I do my broadcasts, etc, but I also turn on a TPLink plug/outlet right next to my secondary camera, that the oscillating fan is plugged into. Within a few seconds, the secondary camera sees motion when the oscillating fan is moving, and I have a Wyze rule to detect that motion and turn off the secondary cam (resetting the trigger). I also have a Google Home automation rule to watch for the secondary camera turning off, and when it sees that, I turn off the TPlink outlet which turns off the oscillating fan.

It’s a bit of a ridiculous setup, but it works. Wyze could save us all this trouble if they just put visitor notifications into Google Home and let us use the doorbell button press as an Automation ‘starter’.

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