Josh’s HA plugin allows local control of Wyze Bulbs now?
Any idea how that works if the bulbs need Wyze cloud to connect? Do the bulbs need new firmware or do you do something different with setup? Will they still work with Wyze cloud at the same time?
If they indeed can be controlled locally I might switch select bulbs and some sensors to HA so they’ll perform automations quicker instead of the cloud delay.
Sounds interesting.
Not 100% sure, but my HA with Josh’s plug in gave me a message in HA indicating that. Have not set it up again to test it out.
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@carverofchoice , I decided to check now and here is what it says when I click on Configure:
Getting excited now. If you figure out the details let me know. 
I might have to go load up my HA again…I haven’t touched it since Wyze made him remove sensor access…but I will consider moving a bunch of sensors to be local Home Assistant if the bulbs will work locally now. Wife’s biggest complaint for all the automations is that the cloud makes them slow (too long of a delay waiting for the light to turn on)
I am off this week. Was planning on cleaning up HA and Hubitat to see if it functions locally as well. I was planning on turning off the Internet for one of the bulbs and see if it works still
True, but far better than the integration offered by Wyze which is nothing. The ONLY Wyze integration was by Josh and he had to eliminate a big chunk of it because it was killing the backend servers. Anyway, many of the HA integrations require access to the cloud for the systems to work.
Just ordered 4 new motion sensors from Aqara today. I am/was an early adopter of Wyze (I think I own 10 of their cameras and 8 of the v1 sensors) but they will no longer be on any purchase list going forward. I’ve wasted enough money going through troubleshooting between Wyze, IFTTT, and Apilio that first I switched to HA and then, realizing Wyze v1 sensors would STILL not work, but VERY happy with local trigger behaviors with everything else I own under HA, I’ll never go back. Hey Wyze, as a developer myself, not spending the $ on your devs (ie. your APIs) is just plain gonna cost you your business. HA was intended to bring all behaviors local and you’ve ignored it for too long now.
Between Zigbee and HA (and yes, even HUE), I think there are at least 13 other motion sensor brands I can burn through before I ever consider Wyze again. The same goes for their cameras. I am one of the most loyal customers any company will ever find…until they burn me. I specifically went with multiple brands and ecosystems to “test out” who the dirtbag companies are vs the real heros. Guess where you’ve landed.
If you guys are looking for a kick ass Router/Firewall upgrade and want it to be enterprise grade without the hassle. Check out Firewalla.com
Honestly I’m certified by FortiNet and I prefer my Firewalla Gold over it any day. And the nice things is the company actually listens and implements things their customers want, all without a subscription. Ya hear me Wyze! I’m looking at you!
But yea with HA, Aquara Sensors, and ESPHome with ESP32 boards. I can pretty much do everything I need. Won’t get their cameras anymore after I got burnt on their Outdoor cam scam. Only good price of hardware I have from them is their version 1 lock. And that’s only because I can still use it with Zigbee.
For cameras, try the Amcrest AD410 for Doorbells and ReoLink PoE for everything else.
I just bought a reolink wifi solar to test things out. Prefer not to run cables to my roof which is where I wanted it. But if I do need to run cables there’s a pretty good trick to run them up a sewer vent stack instead of putting new holes in your roof or running them through a wall.
eeek, never drill holes in your roof, just asking for a leak.
What if you’re like adding a dormer to your roof? Is it ok then? Or maybe a skylight?
Have run the local control for about a month now. It’s mostly reliable, 9 out of 10 times they work within a second. Although sometimes a certain bulb just won’t react for a few seconds, especially ones further away from the router.
The light strips also work fine, and I’m pretty sure switches are getting added shortly too. Obviously nothing would be good as Wyze natively but I’m happy cloud requests aren’t nessasary anymore. -
New to Wyze here. Have myself about 10 of your great bulbs. Was hoping to get a full security system, but the lack of commitment to Home Assistant integration has me turning the other way. Probably going to go with Ring instead 
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Well crap. I have wanted a well integrated control panel. I recently learned about Home Assistant, and this is definitely what I was looking for. Then I discover Wyze is unsupported, and it’s apparently due to a choice by Wyze??? If so, I just don’t get it. As far as I know, Wyze has no similar product that would compete. Would be great if so. Other similar brands like Logitech and Hue seem to have no issue with this.
Looks like this is a deal killer for me too.
NOTE: I experiment with HA from time to time but use the Wyze App for my day to day process. I am not an Employee of Wyze.
You can have the Wyze Security System in Home Assistant as well as the Bulbs, plugs, strip lights, switches, and T-Stat. You currently cannot add the Motion or Contact Sensors into HA. This is being done by adding the HACS Wyze Plugin by
In addition, I just came across this YouTube Video on how to add the cameras as well. Have not tried it yet, but seems promissing.
I experiment with smart products to see what can be done and can’t be done. I am actually waiting for the Matter to proliferate across the smart technology environments, then I am sure we will be able to do more. Here is a sample of my test Dashboard
NOTE: the only non Wyze device in the dashboard is the garage door as that is using MyQ for now:
So I wanted to Pass on that I figured out a way to get Wyze Motion and Contact Sensors (or at least be able to use Wyze Motion contact Sensors in Home Assistant)
Here is a picture of my Dashboard with a Yellow arrow pointing to some Wyze Sensors
Basically, I am leveraging Alexa to do this and Hubitat (but only because I don’t want to pay for Home Assistant Cloud Service. If I did, I would not need Hibitat). Here is what I did
in Hubitat I created Virtual Switches which matched my Motion and Contact Sensors in Wyze. I used Virtual Switches as those tend to be the most flexible in Alexa
I then Added the Hubitat Skill in Alexa (Free of Charge), and Linked Hubitat to Home Assistant.
I selected the Virtual Switched to Expose them to both Alexa and Home Assistant.
In Alexa I setup 2 Rules: Rule one says if motion is detected then turn on the corresponding Hubitat switch. By doing the link to Home Assistant set the state of the entity correctly. Rule two says when motion ends turn off the corresponding Hubitat Switch. Again, the entity in Hme Assistant changed states to off. I did this for all of my Motion and contact sensors (Some represented in the dashboard image above).
I then added YAML Code based on these switched: If Garage Contact Sensor is open, Virtual Switch will go on, YAML code runs as the state changed and says if Garage Door Switch is on turn on the Wyze Notification Bulbs and set them to blue. This succeeded. Then the opposite succeeded as well. If Gaage Door Closes, Alexa Sets the Virtual Switch to Off and the Notification Bulbs go off.
Again, you could bypass Hubitat if you are willing to pay for the Home Assistant Cloud Service. You will also need to set up some Helper Entities or load the HACS Virtual add-on. I have not tested this process as I prefer not to pay. But cannot see any reason why this would not work directly from Home Assistant as well.
I have been running this for 2 days now and have found that there is no latency going through Hubitat to Home Assistant. As demonstrated above, if you set up automatons, then they will trigger and not require you to use Wyze Rules (I still do as I am testing and probably will not get rid of all rules)
The Benefit is tha you can group sensors together and use them as one control for automatons. In addition, there should be no additional load on Wyze’s servers as it is Alexa Setting a Virtual Switch.
This is a genius work around @spamoni !!! I mostly stopped using Home Assistant as soon as Wyze forced Joshua to remove the sensors from his unofficial API because it was polling the sensors too often and straining the server load. I really needed all those sensors to work. Now, with your in-genius workaround, we can actually add the sensors back into Home Assistant and do everything we want again without straining the Wyze servers. I really appreciate your explanation/walkthrough!
Obviously a direct integration or Matter compatibility with a local connection would be preferred, but this seems like the next best thing. I have always wanted to be able to use more advanced rules with my Wyze stuff, and this will allow me to make a group of motions sensors &/or a camera watch a room so I can finally actually do real automatic lighting.
How hard do you think it would be to set it up so that lights turn off automatically if a camera doesn’t have a new person detection event for more than 10 minutes? (or a group of cameras)
(rationale, Even with cam plus, if a person is present for more than 5 minutes straight, it will always break up events into a maximum of 5 minute intervals, so there will always be a new event every 5 minutes, thus a new person detection at least every 5 minutes…so if it goes 10 minutes without a new person event, then there is no person present in that room and it can safely turn off the light.)
That would allow us to for sure cover every inch of a room without needing tons of motion sensors (though there are spots I want to do this too).
Thanks.
I don;t think it will be difficult. The funny thing is all of the cameras show up with Motion, Lights, etc. I have not checked to see if those items actually worked, but I can this weekend.
I actually modified my Automation to take the Virtual Switches into account and the grouping did still work. I also did it for the doors as well.
So all of my automations, which I had to disable when Josh removed the sensors are all working again.
I don’t use te cameras for motion sensing as I don’t have any in the house, except those I test with or play with,
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I just looked and there is nothing to say when the camera stops seeing motion. It can trigger on person but nothing else. I use Motion Sensors so never had a need to check.
in Home Assistant the cameras show these entities - this is a V3 Camera:
With that said, there is the addon, referenced elsewhere to include an add-on so you can stream Wyze cameras. Seemed to work, but a docker app may be better and more efficient.
I agree that this is genius! Do you have any guidance at setting up the virtual switches WITH HA Cloud Services? Where are the switches and helpers created and how does Alexa integrate?
i am trying to get my Wyze sensors to trigger automations in my HA. I do have Alexa and the HA Cloud services,
Is there a step-by-step? Thanks!
