One thing I have done is to set my Wyze cameras up in IFTTT so that when a camera detects motion, it will trigger a webhook. You can then create an automation in HA that when that webook gets triggered it will do something. For example, when I am on vacation, I have all of my smart plugs set up for various lights throughout the house. When a camera detects motion between midnight and sunrise, it will turn all of the lights on in the house. I don’t need to buy any other hardware and it looks like Wyze motion sensors can also be set up in ITFFF.
I e tried this and it’s only somewhat reliable. It falls into an API Queue as to not overwhelm their way under powered servers. Unfortunately it’s still best to use a Josh’s plugin https://github.com/JoshuaMulliken/ha-wyzeapi
even though Wyze has completely nerfed it into the ground.
Honestly if they don’t really set them selves up to use Matter well and WITH their cameras, then I don’t see them as being a viable vendor for Home Automation except for the average user who doesn’t mind being data mined by China.
From the best I can tell about what I want to do, Josh’s plugin doesn’t do what I need. I want something that will trigger an automation from motion and from what I read, his plugin doesn’t see that from Wyze. Maybe I am missing something but I only see that it will detect the devices and allow me to turn notifications on and off. I can turn my spotlight on the floodlight camera outside also but not much more than that.
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I tried the Wyze > Alexa > Home Assistant route with mixed results. The first issue I ran into was not all the sensors appeared in HA. Some did and I couldn’t find underlying issue so I changed course.
Next I tried Wyze > IFTTT > HA via webhook. Beter results, but not exactly perfect. For instance, v2 sensors triggered the webhook only on “motion clear” instead of on “motion detected”. I only found this because I got distracted until the sensor went clear and the automation executed. When I switched to a camera motion detect entity, it worked fine.
Now at least I have some options and If I can solve the sensor clear issue, I think it will be a good solution.
Yeah. It’s not perfect but it’s something until either Wyze opens up an API or I buy different cameras. I don’t want to buy different cameras but I need a solution that will work. To me, Wyze is too far behind the curve to get people who already have some kind of solution in place to be able to get people to use their automation. I have smart plugs from Wemo, led lights and led bulbs for two or three different companies, and a doorbell and thermostat from Nest. I can replace three cameras easier than I can all of the other products I already have along with my HA Rasberry Pi device.
Also, they will never get the buy-in from the smart home influencers on YouTube and other social media outlets. When someone goes to YouTube to look up smart home information, you almost never see Wyze mentioned by these people due to this.
Yea it’s sad really. I had high hopes. Originally they said they would “Never” charge subscription fees. Now look, that’s all the company is. Rebranded and cheaply firmwared Chinese crap with a half cobbled together eco system and an outsourced support and monitoring team.
I refuse to put a $ more in their pockets and the more I can advise not too I do. Amcrest AD410 Doorbell Cameras and ReoLink 520A PoE is about all I use now. I still have the hacked RSTP firmware for the pan cam and sparsely use them for non-critical functions. Just piping the stream through Frigate to a NAS.
I found something on the IFTTT trigger on “becomes clear” instead of “motion detected”?
t seems when motion sensors are connected to the Sense Hub, the behavior is as above - trigger on clear. When connected to a camera bridge, the trigger is “normal” ie triggers on motion detected.
At least now I can move forward with my automations knowing where the problem is.
I spoke too soon. This worked for about an hour and then the new configuration reverted to the incorrect behavior.
Use wyze docker bridge to expose rtsp streams from your wyzecams through the bridge, no firmware hack needed. Connect your rtsp streams to frigate to take advantage of all of its features (object detection, person detection, zone detection, recording, snapshots, etc). You can use this to feed events to home assistant, and also for a nice local NVR. If you want you can configure double take to accept photos from frigate to process them for facial recognition to use for automations in home assistant. If person is detected at front door and double take confirms a match then send notification to mobile when away from home with picture and text saying who it is, if someone is home announce who it is on Google speaker via TTS.
What kind of hardware platform(s) do you use? Is a Coral accelerator still a practical necessity for real time AI? Every time I check they are still unavailable…
When you say “exposes the RSTP stream over the bridge” how is that working? Is it a local pull of the stream or does it pull the feed from Wyze. Because as far as I know you can only get the RSTP stream using the firmware. I would live to causally be able to use my Outsoor Cam for more than a glorified PIR sensor
But yep I’m setup almost exactly the same as you are. Using Amcrest AD410’s for doorbell cameras and ReoLink RCL520A PoEs for everything else except 2 wyze pan cams I still have on the old RSTP Firmware. I have Frigate running in a VM on a PowerEdge R620 with the Coral TPU passed by passing the USB controller through. Then sends to DoubleTake in Home Assistant in a separate VM and does continuous recording to a NAS.
I think what’s being left unsaid is that the Bridge is receiving the original camera stream (using native Wyze authentication and protocols) and then converting it to an RTSP stream?
We have been reviewing the #wishlist to see what we can implement that users are requesting. We have not ruled this one out but it is not something we can start in the near future.
Woo hoo! I’ll take it! Better than the “Probably Not” status a lot of others have gotten.
To be fair, all the integration requests (this one and others) will probably get some degree of use through the Matter Co-Op at some point anyway, even if it isn’t a specific direct integration, but if any of them are going to have the potential for consideration in the future, I am glad it’s this one! I will be asking again when “the year of the camera” is over. Come on 2024!!!
I would love to see Wyze motion sensors be the BEST sensor for home automation. Create a sensor at the current price point that’s super fast and has easy Zigbee integration. Sell the snot out of them,
Won’t be holding my breath. I expect minor changes due to Matter but remember its much like MQTT is now. I forsee great support for sensors and individual image files. But I’ve yet to see any one stream something that way. Again, unless the build a local API, which would eat into their “Cam Plus” subscriptions so they won’t, it’s meaningless words to keep you buying their crap and get further locked into their ecosystem
Home Assistant all the way baby. If I can’t hack it to work, it goes into the parts bin.
You got it! I have started to make my own ESP based sensors. Not pretty but they work and for the price who gives a crap about pretty. I am not running a design studio!
Amen to that !
I’m flabbergasted to see so many people still alive in that thread after holding their breath for so long lol
If it’s not compatible with Home Assistant today, don’t bother.
Yea I’ve done the same thing. I started with 8266 chips and did about 3 sensors each with motion, temp, humid, pressure, ambient light, and each has a neopixil for a status light.
Although now I’m going back through all of them and ditching the 8266 for an ESP32. Just got my 150m Bluetooth adapter in so each of the sensors will also be Bluetooth Proxies so I’m hoping that will help with presence detection for rooms.
But yea, for the price you can get the chips and stuff to solder you can’t really beat it. My next purchase is going to be a 3D printer so I can build cases that have fittings for each sensor instead of hacking a project box up with an exacto knife
Really anyone who is even looking at Wyze is usually a tinkerer like us so they are really just shooting themselves in the foot
Come on 2024!!!