Well, I can’t resist dipping my toe and nose into this thread. I like Wyze, so don’t take my comments please, as negative. I think we can’t always depend on one solution to be perfect. I use different methods, a layer approach and it serves me very very well. I use more than one device and I use different vendors. I think the risk of leaving my GD open is to high to not stretch my choice. I am not arguing my way is better. I am not comparing what I do, to features already existing some place else.
Of course there’s a Wyze V3 ( a couple actually) to view the door. No need to say more, just look at the door in the app.
Then the controller, to get Alexa, and app, I use this method.
This allows me to open and close with Alexa, Google or the app. And I can automate it with Routines and scenes. I use routines to also turn on garage lights, porch lights and announce “get out of the way of the big door”.
Well I sort of told a lie there. I used to use that Sonoff Basic. But I like the 433 MHz RF features of the Sonoff RFR2. The RFR2 has a standard RF feature and allows me to use a generic 433 MGz remote to open close it. These Sonoff devices are WiFi DIY plugs/switches. They are not simply the Dry Relay that is in the Wyze GDC. To use the Sonoff, one must hack it to convert it from WiFi plug to Dry Relay. I couldn’t find a video to explain how to convert the RFR2 into a Dry Relay, so I studied it and experimented and found how to do it. I am too dumb to make videos, so I didn’t make a video of how to. But I did write it up into instructions with pictures. A couple of people that I gave it to replicated it and works for them.
If you look around for a Sonoff Basic, you must dig deep to find a Sonoff Basic version 1. Almost everything is Basic 2, and not the same design. It literally looks like the RFR2 without the RF module. So, best bet is search eBay for the Basic V1 or use the Basic RFR2. (Too much info?) (If someone wants the instructions to covert a RFR2 into a Dry Relay, message me with an email address. That simple.
And I use this from Yolink: GD Sensor Its granular. Its a sensor. It reports open or closed. I can set it to not only alert me the door is open, it has a setting that allows me to let it hag me over and over that its still open. Then I can command the Sonoff to close or some other way.
And they also have a complementary sister product the GD Controller: And the Pair as a Kit. I don’t use the controller, because my GDO is a Yellow Learn button and this controller doesn’t like it. So, that’s why I use the Sonoff
Aloso, there’s the Wyze Sensor element. I took a Wyze Sense V1 Contact Sensor and mounted it in a 3D printed Garage Door Bracket from etsy (see pictures below). I suspect anyone that wants the V1 version should contact the seller, to ask him to print one for V1. And someone else’s. Its gravity based. Its so simple its almost funny. Genius design to be so simple. He also designed, printed and sells on for the Wyze Sense V2. (Its his hobby.)
The reason for both the Yolink Sensor and the Wyze Sense V1 sensor, is backup, overlap, insurance, layered notifications. I get my Alexa notifications and my SMS notifications. I don’t even need to check the phone. If I don’t hear them as I leave or enter, I know there’s a problem. So I look at the Wyze app.
