IOS (and probably Android) allow you to set a bedtime and wake up for alarms and other functionality. If the Wyze app could sync with this and update schedules such as wake up routines on the bulbs, this would be great! It would mean we would only have to change our schedule in one app, and Wyze would adjust accordingly.
This could be used as a sort of variable in a rule as well!
I’m trying to understand what this request is and what it would be expected to do. While I do use Rules in the Wyze app to schedule some things that aren’t possible otherwise (at least in my current IoT setup), I’m already doing most of my automation in Google Home, where, for instance, a morning routine is set to brighten my bulbs over a certain interval (a corresponding routine sets their brightness back to 1% the night before). I’m on board with trying to keep as much management as possible in a single app in an effort to simplify a complex interconnected system.
I realize that I’m responding to a post that’s over a year and a half old, but since its status is Maybe Later, I’m trying to get a handle on what a potential use case would be.
Wyze/iOS integration: Have Wyze app pull wake/sleep settings from iOS and have options in the Wyze app to apply those wake/sleep settings to Wyze devices where applicable. Implementation will help reduce need for user to redundantly set same iOS settings in Wyze app for each device and also eliminate Wyze app settings changes when iOS wake/sleep settings are modified.
I could see some use for this if maybe the Wyze app had access to something like Digital Wellbeing settings on Android, and my expectation would be something like a “Follow phone’s wake/sleep settings” toggle in the Wyze app. Is that the thinking here?
I could imagine the Wyze app essentially posing a question to the user like, “Do you want to dim your Wyze lights when your phone’s bedtime routine starts?” There’s some utility to that, for sure.
What happens when a user has the Wyze app (and, therefore, control of a set of Wyze devices) on more than one mobile device? If Wyze app settings are synchronized to (and stored on) Wyze servers, then how are the Wyze devices to know which of the user’s mobile device settings to pull?
What if a user carries an iPhone but also likes to pull up camera views on an iPad for the larger screen? Would the user have to designate a single mobile device as the “master” for the Wyze app to sync only that phone’s/tablet’s settings? Does iOS synchronize wake/sleep settings across those devices?
Android doesn’t do that, as far as I know. I really don’t know the answer about iOS, but that wouldn’t be my expectation if I chose to use iOS devices. I also would wonder how this would work (like some of the questions above) in a mixed environment where a person uses both Android and iOS.
I think some of these questions have the potential to further the argument for Wyze to improve the way permissions are provisioned for users with shared access. What if spouses have different wake/sleep settings on their phones but share a single Wyze account for the app because that’s the only way both can have full control of the cameras?
Note that I’m not actually expecting answers to all of these questions. I’m just trying to figure out where this could go and using this space to think out loud. I think this is an interesting problem that I don’t expect to be solved here in the Forum, but it’s fun to discuss and learn.
That would account for the user’s Wyze account settings, I agree, but if a user has two mobile devices that don’t have identical sleep/wake settings, then…?
Like I said, it’s an interesting problem. I wonder what the engineers would say about it.
If you have two mobile devices with different settings, one had to be set later than the other. Take the last. If you intended to use the 1st, the rule of scatterbrain applies.
Only in spoken/written language does identical twins, equal parts, exactly on time, etc. make sense. In the land of ones and zeros, even with asynchronous processing, events are only equal in time if a coder decided that decimal points don’t matter.
You could make a fortune if you develop the smart logic that accommodates someone with multiple phones setting multiple alarms that trigger multiple smart devices when they actually intended to use only one alarm.