Has anybody looked into Huginn for Wyze (and other IoT devices)? Looks powerful, locally hosted so you lessen potential exposure, and FOSS. I may have to apply some Naval Jelly to my rusty coding chops and see if I can do anything with it. On Github, if anybody’s so inclined.
Did you get your Wyze cams to work with virtual switches or motion sensors linked through Alexa? If so, what method did you use?
I have my contact sensors linked from Aexa to SmartThings with simulated Alexa switches and motion sensors linked with simulated motion sensor and switch.
I can not figure out how to get the cams linked with virtual/simulated switches without using IFTTT. In Alexa, I can only use wyze cams as triggers not actions, and the only trigger is for person detection.
Nope. Vivint cannot be used as a trigger for Alexa routines at all.
I mentioned Huginn two weeks ago above, but I have never tried it.
@TeBa
The only thing I use the cameras through Alexa for is the person Detection trigger. I leave the cameras and notifications on all the time, I know some people do not like this and like to turn the cameras or notifications on/off. I have never attempted this and probably cannot be done without IFTTT. There is a #wishlist request for WYZE to create a virtual switch which could also help in this area.
@towelkingdom
Sounds like Vivint wants to keep everything in-house, being unfamiliar with the workings of Vivint myself, I cannot think of another way right off hand.
I don’t really need my cams to automate with my alarm (we have them all constant recording) just my frigging light bulbs.
I’m unsure what Alexa does and doesn’t allow via skills, but Vivint’s functionality is 100% skill related. No skill, no connection.
I’ve sent a response to Vivint asking for information, and have yet to get a reply.
I guess I may have to bite the bullet and pay for ifttt or go back to telling alexa to turn off the lights when I leave and come home like a plebian. 
I’m a fairly techy person, but I don’t always know the proper terms for some things. I was trying to follow the conversation about webhooks and such, but I’ve very little knowledge on that.
I know Macrodroid has a function for webhooks in reading through the forum. I’d asked in that forum, but no one in there uses Wyze so it’s hard for me to express my questions since I’m less than knowledgeable about what things are called. Lol
I’m a techie and “webhooks” was relatively new to me. As best I could tell, all it really means is “this app can load a URL”. 
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Sorry if this is already documented somewhere, but even after reading the whole thread it wasn’t clear to me what the solutions/alternatives are, if any. Looking for ways to achieve the following for Wyze cameras that was previously handled with IFTTT:
- reboot all cameras at a given time of the day (can be hardcoded time)
- record and upload a video for a given camera (*)
- disable motion detection on all cameras (*)
- enable motion detection on all cameras (*)
- if camera detects motion, turn on a switch. The switch can be SmartThings, Alexa or Hubitat Elevation.
(*): for those, currently using Maker Event, but fine with other triggering mechanisms
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Can we expect to get a proper API or other integration options for Wyze devices?
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I don’t think there are any alternatives for these actions at this time. I’m also looking to replace IFTTT, and all I need is to enable/disable motion detection based on location triggers from Life360 (multi-person, multi-phone OS household). I’ve been looking at Home Assistant as a local solution but there is no official Wyze integration, and nothing that supports motion detection control or even just turning them on and off. I could use the kludgy method of smart plugs to just turn them off and on, but then I’d have to buy a bunch of plugs.
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You could use them in RTSP mode and then use the motion detection native to whatever NVR type system you have (ZoneMinder, TinyCam, BlueIris, etc.)
I’m writing state and federal legislators to address this. All cloud-dependant products need to be required to prominently display their ‘expiry date’.
If a company makes a product that requires their continued cooperation to work, they must support it, for absolutely ever. For the next 1000 years. Or else, properly label it when the duration of time they will be supporting it.
If they only want to guarantee it will work for a year, fine. Free market and all. But properly label it as such and let consumers think about that when they screw it to the wall on their porch.
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Well that’s one way to get on a list. Good luck with that! 
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Are there any good ideas for enabling push notifications on certain cameras when I leave the house? I have 4 of them I want to enable, so I’m over the limit with IFTTT. I have a couple I don’t want it enabled on (camera watching driveway and one watching front walkway) so I can’t use the Wyze enable push notifications because it turns on the driveway cam too. I get too many notifications back there from workmen etc.
Any particular reason for not using Alexa routines?
The only way I see to access the camera via routines is under Smart Home and that says it’s an unsupported device. If I go to all devices from the run screen it doesn’t offer any control over the functions of the cameras, just to offer voice notifications if a person is detected via an announcement over the Echo.
I threw my Wyze Plugs in the crapper and replaced them with TpLink Kasa. It has a built in sunrise sunset function that is far more reliable than Ifttt.
Most anything you can do with voice on Alexa can be done with Routines. Not exclusively but pretty close.