based on what other people have observed. the reading may not accurate.
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be sure to click VOTE at the top of this page (will change to VOTED once complete) 1010 votes as I type this.
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You are correct regarding the unstable nature of the contact sensors in particular. I have about 30 contact sensors deployed in an array of functions and they provide a very inexpensive solution to one part of my typical projects.
I’ve experienced the gamut from reliable to DOA out of the box. So I’ll guarantee that you’ll have a variety of fail rates.
After the full box DOA, I have adapted to the whimsical nature of the point I’ve identified as the prime and almost exclusive point of failure and then came up with my own spin to make them still, to this day, a great little assembly that I’ll use if I don’t need an ESP32, or Esp8266. I can take the cores, swap in a lithium cell, and either use with case or without for a good 6-12 months depending on my use case.
I have some counting each dogs feedings, I found them more reliable than Flics as part of a push button assembly, Some live in my dishwasher, refrigerators, and cabinetry.
Bottom line for my prototyping or simply battery powered pre-assembled comm chips for any binary application, they fit the bill.
Are they at all appropriate for monitoring anything involving safety absolutely not.
But for $4.40 approx I can skip pulling out much gear from my station. I can print any housing I need for about another 25 cents, and you’ve got a device that talks to my servers and doesn’t pollute the 2.4Ghz band that unfortunately 80% of the kit is still specified to use.
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It would be great to have this feature, especially now that IFTTT started charging for more than 3 custom applets.
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I vote yes to integrate with Home Assistant.
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I am moving away from IFTTT and I am installing Home Assistant. 
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The Home Assistant sounds a little complex. How many features would I be without if I s. tay using my Echo devises with Alexa. Im able to pull any camera up on my big screen, she’s able to control my lights and with the band im able to check on things at home. I
can’t wait until the V3 drops.
How will the HA be different from what I use now and since im learning all of Alexa comands to control my house It might be beneficial for me stay and see how it works out for everybody before I jump ship.
So, there is SOME learning involved with getting HA up and running, but it’s getting more and more user-friendly and GUI-centric all the time, and there is nothing earth shatteringly difficult that you just have to tackle; you can make it as simple or complex as you want. That being said, as far as what you’re giving up by not having it:
- speed, in many cases. If you can do something locally, it’s always faster than relying on the internet.
- nearly limitless potential for automation and logic. Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, SmartThings can’t hold a candle to what HA can do for you, AND you can still use all of those with HA via Integration, so it’s not like you have to give them up at all. There is really only gain to be found.
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If you don’t know and aren’t willing to google it, then this post isn’t for you.
This seems to be the defacto highest voted for wishlist item and is also a wish list item that is about 2 years old. So is there plans to add integration or will we be stuck with doing everything in a round about way?
I have seen mentioned elsewhere that until they get some of the other integrations working properly they aren’t going to dive into new ones.
SmartThings in association with WebCore can do a ton, I can control most of my Wyze devices from SmartThings currently
WebCore seems pretty cool.
My main point was: out of the box, SmartThings / Alexa / HomeKit / GoogleHome in and of themselves just don’t posses enough granular logic capability to run a serious smart home; you Need something like HomeAssistant or WebCore or OpenHAB or Control4 to act as the real brain behind what’s happening, and your “Smart Home” brand of choice is simply an interface for it.
I will agree with you there, I have never found an ‘out of the box’ system that will allow me to do everything i want
Well I guess you got me there. I was just scrolling through to have a look and couldn’t figure out how to filter by top voted. Still though 2 years with that many votes seems like a long time coming.
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Just throwing my comment and extreme desire to see this come to fruition. Hopefully it’s clear reading through this massive thread that an API is all that we desire, not a specific HA integration, we’ll handle that. Not to mention that would cover many of the wishlist items including this one. i love wyze as a company, i love the commitment to affordable automation hardware, and i love the hardware that has come out to this point that I’ve purchased. An API to control them over my local network and integrate them with the rest of my ecosystem would just put this company over the top for me and I would buy every single piece of hardware you come out with without hesitation.
It’s the single thing that’s kept me from pulling the trigger on the vacuum, new sprinkler controller, more sensors (in fear the hackey integration stops working), the doorbell, and the thermostat.
API, API, API, API, API, API
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…which leads me to think that perhaps we should rename this thread to “API access” instead of Home Assistant? That would also reduce the Google Assistant confusion of a lot of people have.
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I agree completely. API is the real need, and most other desires would then fall into place.
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Another +1 from me on this API talk. I have 8 v1 contact sensors and 10 v1 motion sensors running the on the Wyzesense component for Home Assistant and it worked great for a while but is now starting to be a headache. I’m shopping around now for zwave/zigbee replacements but will really miss the form factor of the Wyze stuff. I have had very little luck with using RTSP on the v2 cams as well… constant drop outs. It seems that everything works great when you use the Wyze app but for those of us who don’t want to use the cloud, the experience comes with a lot of compromises and after dealing with them for a year, it’s either time to move on, or time for Wyze to recognize this portion of their user base.
I would buy nearly all of their new and future products if they had a free and open API for localized use!!!
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But that’s the problem with just saying “API”. Many APIs are delivered against an Internet based (“cloud”) service and not from local devices. It is best not to say that. Offline API?
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