In case you weren’t aware, there is a Home Assistant Community Store Wyze Integration which works pretty decently with some of their devices. It’s not as good as an official integration, but it does some cool stuff such as local control of lights, and several other things.
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I made a dashboard for OmgItsWifey so she can pull it up on her computer wherever she is to see the status and control of all our home bulbs, see entry sensor status etc. Helps when she’s on a video call because she can control rooms lights etc without leaving her computer or calling out to Alexa mid call. She said it’s pretty slick!
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Yeah, it is so awesome.
The sensors don’t have a direct integration (as you know, just saying this for others’ benefit), but there are great ways to get the sensors in Home Assistant still.
The main way is through Alexa.
If you have the Nabu casa subscription, this is already integrated.
If you don’t and you want it all for free, you can just go to the Alexa Skills and enable the “Node-RED” skill by Ben Hardill. Once enabled, log in to Node-RED Alexa Home Skill Bridge. Here, you create “helper switches” that Alexa will recognize. Similarly, configure Home Assistant to work with Alexa.
Doing this, you can have all your Wyze Contact and motion sensors integrated into Home Assistant for free too, and pretty simply. You just create a virtual Sensor toggle in Home Assistant, then expose it to Alexa, then have Alexa update the virtual sensor on or off depending on when the Wyze sensor opens/closes. Simple and basically instantaneous.
The HACS Wyze integration is also adding support for a bunch of settings from the Wyze cameras soon whenever the next update is (toggling notifications, sirens, spotlights, floodlights, power, motion detection, and more).
Then if you want the video feeds, you can get all of them into Home Assistant with Docker Wyze Bridge &/or Cryze or a few other options.
I have most all of my Wyze devices in Home Assistant now. I have over 50 cameras and over 300 (maybe over 400) total Wyze devices, and the majority of them are integrated in Home Assistant with lots of routines. Some even work BETTER in Home Assistant, like the Wyze bulbs. Those are WAY faster in Home Assistant because they work locally.
Again, none of the above is intended to imply Wyze shouldn’t do their own official integration, they ABSOLUTELY NEED TO!!! It is just to let anyone else in here know that you can get most of your Wyze stuff in there now if you want. Lots of us have, and it works great.
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The thing is most of the work is already done for them, meaning work with the Wyze HA integration developers. Seems easy,
someone else does all the work. Free…lol
I don’t have any Wyze sensors, just cameras and 4 bulbs, I’m using Aqara ZigBee motion sensors mostly for the lights automations.
I don’t use anything else in the integration and almost deleted it, until I remembered the Wyze bulbs.
However, there may be API security implications I’m unaware of or company ecosystems policy.
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I agree. It should be simple for them to implement a basic integration with most of the work already being done for them now.
They will still have to make a few changes though since the current implementation does “POLLING” which was overloading their servers with sensors and cameras were integrated in the past. They will have to change that for sure.
I don’t expect them to even put this on their roadmap until after the CSA Matter camera libraries are finalized though. THEN they will finally look at all their options and see what to do for the long term with future integrations. Then, their roadmap is usually 6-12 months out already. This means that even IF Matter finally gets their act together in the first half of 2025 (not holding my breath), then the soonest we’d likely see anything won’t be before the end of next year at the earliest.
I wouldn’t tell anyone to hope for anything earlier than end of 2025, and probably not until 2026.
Not saying that they will ultimately decide to do a HA integration, but I can almost guarantee that’s not on the table until Matter Camera libraries are finally launched. They’ve been pushing everything off until then.
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Please update us when you choose to listen to your installed userbase. I bet we would vote to pay for integration. i.e. HomeAssistant integration is included in camplus or something like that.
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I finally gave in and loaded mrlt8 Github Wyze-Bridge in HA, and am fiddling now with generic camera integration for putting them in a dashboard, not sure what it does yet, but it’s probably as close as we’ll get. For now or ever.
@carverofchoice recommended trying it. Generic Camera integration is a bear, but I found some tips for filling that in, I’ll post the tips all around once verified they work. It wasn’t found easily.
Then there’s a Cryze, 
I think for the OGs etc that Wyze-Bridge doesn’t support.
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@carverofchoice Wyze-Bridge is definitely nice, still have camera options to fill in, tweaks etc. stuff and learn how to use it better.
At least I’m past loading it, lol, generic camera was a bit tricky, I’ll try to document and post on relevant sites. If I don’t forget everything I did, after all, I am old and forgetful.
I’ll get that fully operational and check out Cryze later, too many pots, Proxmox etc.
Thanks for persistently recommending it.
That would be fantastic!
You’re welcome. I mostly do so if I think someone would benefit or enjoy it. It’s definitely not as good as if Wyze did DIRECT support either internally to the camera or direct integration to Home Assistant, but it’s a useful workaround that brings a lot of benefit. Now you can also integrate the cameras into Frigate or anything else to do your own custom detection triggers and even do your own descriptive notifications. Lots of cool stuff.
I recently bought a Google Coral USB add-on for my mini-PC so I could have Frigate do a lot more and better object detections. I haven’t installed it yet though…been too busy with my work/businesses and in the middle of starting up a new one. 
But I love this stuff when I can justify spending time on it.
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Yes, it kind of amazed me how little documentation there was, how many youtube videos didn’t cover enough.
Load generic camera, guess what needs to be filled in the blanks. Not very helpful for someone who doesn’t know.
I’ll look into Frigate, later after I get over this learning curve.
I have a full sized workstation, overkill, but it was a new in box from the Defense Logistics Agency, eBay , $100. HP Z1 G5 Workstation. He sold about 30 of them, said there was 100, government waste.
I put several spin 1TB drives in it, 2 nvme 1TB drives, 64GB RAM upgrade, I think its 12 core or something, plenty for a retirement hobby.
Loaded Proxmox in it, that’s a trip, lol, have a Home Assistant VM in there, Ubuntu VM etc., adding Zigbee and Zwave and that new Beta voice toy soon. Hey Nabu, lol. If it ever ships.
Plenty of room to play and have backup…
My HA is actually running on a Nabu Casa Green currently that I started with about a 1± years ago.
Nice! Updating to a full server is a moderate term goal of mine. You got an awesome deal.
I’m planning to get one of those beta voice toys too. Though I’m hoping they really get around to a display that can stream cameras, not just a speaker.
Ditto. I just know I will eventually do a lot of really advanced and intensive stuff in the long term when I start running my own local AI and analyzing every camera stream to do custom automations. And it’s easier to run everything as an integrated add-on locally than having to have everything constantly polled through mosquito brokers or whatever. Just trying to think long term.
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I haven’t posted in a while. It’s always good to see @carverofchoice keeping hope alive. With all my V2 & V3 Wyze cams running on the RTSP firmware, I swore I’d never buy another Wyze Cam again. “Surprisingly”, with the $9.99USD Wyze OG deal last month, it turns out that I had a use case where a low price was a higher priority than “universal” viewing. (Basement and attic spaces where I want to periodically check if a mouse has been trapped.)
All to ask: Is there any integration/alteration that allows viewing of OG cams without the Wyze App that I may have missed in the last year?
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Not 100%…at minimum, OG cams will require you to set them up through the Wyze app initially. But after that, there are ways to view them without the Wyze app.
@G2740 mentioned one of those ways when he referenced the Cryze project.
Basically, it is a docker container you would run on a local machine (computer, R-Pi, etc) that would convert your OG video stream to RTSP for you without having to install special firmware. Then you can use that RTSP stream the way you already do with your other cameras. You’re obviously well aware of the possibilities from that point on, but you would not have to use the Wyze app anymore after initial setup as you were asking.
There are alternative options too, such as using Tiny Cam Pro.
Looks like I missed the Cryze craze around last April. I’ll take a look. It will be a good project for my retired Home Assistant RPi4. (retired in favor of a quieter more robust Dell 5070 thin client)
Thanks!
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I looked, I’m not smart enough, lol Be aware Cryze may be deprecated and now known as Cryze V2. Due diligence.
I’m not touching it, just to get OGs into Home Assistant or whatever it does.
I know this, I will not buy another OG period.
Wyze-Bridge seems to work great with V4s. So V4s from here out I guess. If any. For now, until deprecated.
Hindsight is 20-20 sorta thing.
CUPro, whatever that is besides rich Ai notifications. A little transparency from Wyze would be good. I don’t need another secretive Simplisafe company. Been there done that. Not doing it twice.
Where they’re just worried about their monitoring subscriptions and retention.
Wyze could help with the Home Assistant issue, it’s out there already, but refuses. Reolink POE is looking good at the moment.
There may be hope for this in the moderate future! Thought some of you following this wishlist would be interested. In this thread, @G2740 and I brought up the subject of Home Assistant and got an interesting implication. I’ll give you the context:
Hopefully that’s good news. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting Wyze to look into new integrations or Home Assistant in particular before 2026. I expected them to wait until the Matter Camera libraries are released and then consider how to move forward with their roadmap after that, but Matter has been horribly slow, so maybe they’re done waiting? That would be awesome news! I thought a few others would appreciate the update. Doesn’t mean it WILL happen…he did just say they were “looking into” more integrations, but at least they’re FINALLY looking which is more than can be said before now. And if they look into it, Home assistant is the number 1 integration requested and it’s now guaranteed to be in the top integrations long term since they created the Open Home Foundation which makes it impossible for some company to buy it out and stop it now. It’s a safe guaranteed long-term option now.
Here’s hoping their “finally looking into” leads them to the obvious conclusion.
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Is there a place where we can get all requested integrations and software features publicly voted on in a NEW way? More up to date.
I know we have the wishlist, just wanted to hone it in to a deeper level and have it broken up into things like:
Software FIXES
Software FEATURES
Hardware Requests
Etc
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Maybe what we should do is create a new thread and collect suggestions in that thread So you can feel like it is up to date requests and information.
Then after enough suggestions have been posted by multiple users, somebody could create a poll either through survey monkey or Google forms To have people vote on the top options that seem to be suggested in that thread. (You could email it out and Post a link to it in many of the social media platforms). Then you can pull statistics about it that are easier to present to your teams.
I have no doubt home assistant will be among the top choices no matter which way you try to do it. So I’m not too concerned about that
I’ve been fiddling with the Wyze Bridge add on. I had it in almost all possible locations for some testing. Docker Container using a docker -compose.yml in Ubuntu.
Had it in a Green device, a bit much for Green. IMHO It was kind of sluggish.
Tested it briefly in Virtualbox on top of Ubuntu desktop.
Worked well, but one Vbox test failed me so I burned Proxmox back into my machine. May go back and give Virtual Box another chance later.
Now it’s back in a Proxmox for testing in a Home Assistant VM as an add on in HAOS. May try a container? If possible.
Noticing drag on camera feeds in the Wyze app when running the bridge in Proxmox. Not sure from what yet or why. If Bridge is on, the Wyze feeds in the app start getting bouncing balls, disconnects, etc., still testing.
Didn’t seem to notice it elsewhere, but may not have been looking hard enough either.
The Seckatie Wyze integration is sorta the other half of our dilemma. I actually only use it to turn on Wyze smart bulbs. Buggy as per my HA logs.
If Wyze should decide to look at having a Home Assistant logo with “Works In Home Assistant” on their products or some products, Aqara has gone there, especially with their Matter products.
A lot of integration work has been roughed out with these two integrations. If the two were polished, & combined, you’d almost have the app as currently available in cloud inside Home Assistant.
Not that Wyze is any danger of disappearing, that I’m aware of anyhow, some cloud products do and have disappeared.
Some responsible suppliers before closing the doors push out an API so their customer base isn’t left hanging & so that it works in Home Assistant etc. without the cloud. To the degree they’re able.
I realize that subscriptions are much of what butters their bread and having just local control of Wyze cameras may be out of the picture. For now.
But, it could or might be possible, if subscription money was required to turn on that software toggle switch.
I only have four Wyze bulbs and I have been considering Zigbee replacements for direct local control and cloud holds me back from buying more.
As you may already know, OGs don’t work in the Wyze Bridge, I’ve got several of those (6) that I wish were V4s which are compatible. Cryze looks, well, difficult and over my head.
I’ll break out the picture glance cards into two dashboards and see if that relieves the Proxmox bandwidth strain, or if no change.
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@carverofchoice I’ve just about given up on Wyze in Home Assistant.
I’ve loaded the Wyze Bridge at least 3 times in different hardware. Green is kind of power limited. In VMware Workstation Pro VM now in a powerful PC on top of Ubuntu.
If I use generic camera integration in HA, and if I put say 5 cams in a dashboard, it drags down the Wyze app cameras operation due to cloud or the cameras themselves, WiFi whatever. I have Mesh. Old Mesh wifi 5 though.
One or a couple might suffice and work, but switching between dashboards is a hassle.
To alleviate WiFi drag, cloud, cameras performance etc, I’m almost convinced POE is the only way to eliminate these issues. Frigate & Coral or something.
Oh, well, my Wyze still have some uses as listeners for Smoke & CO. And looking out windows in window mounts, & spot mounts outside where Ethernet runs aren’t convenient.
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