Leak Sensor only sends notifacations, not text or email

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Sometimes notifications can get over looked by accident and there is no way to retrieve them. Is there a way to have the leak alert sent as a text or an email, this way the alert is not lost.
Also is there a way to have the leak alert sent every hour until the leak clears?

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If you Android, then there are a lot of Apps that will give you the flexibility for all of those things. When my leak sensors go off, mine do all the following:

  • Beeps loudly on my Sensor Hub (this is part of the HMS through the Wyze app)
  • I get a notification (from the Wyze app), I make it pin the notification so I can’t swipe it away (I use either MacroDroid or Buzzkill to do this)
  • I have it send me a text message (I could have it send an email too, but I don’t because emails get lost since I get so many) --I believe I use MacroDroid to do this.
  • I make it announce on my Google and Alexa Speakers that there is a leak. --I believe I use a webhook through MacroDroid to do this.
  • I have a couple of cameras trigger the siren sound in my house -I just do this through the Wyze App.

So, if you have Android, you can absolutely do lots of things like the above. I do many of them myself. I usually use BuzzKill and MacroDroid for most of my Notification automations, but there are many other options, including Tasker. I just tell them to watch any Notification from the Wyze app, and if any of them say “Leak” in the notification, it should do all the above.

I am not totally sure of all of the options through iOS. I assume it might be able to make a “Critical Notification” for a leak, but I am not sure. You can at least have it set off a siren on one of your cameras. That will make sure it doesn’t get missed. Apple isn’t too friendly with customization stuff though, so I know some of those things are fairly limited and may not be possible. But at least you could make a loud siren with Wyze rules.

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Thanks Carverofchoice, seems like some good options from android, but alast I have an iPhone. I don’t have a camera so no options there :frowning:
Seems odd that there is no sure way to get a hard alert(email ortect) other than a fleeting notification that could be missed and goes away.

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There might be some other iOS options, but I am just not that familiar with what is all possible there :frowning:

Regardless, I agree that Wyze needs to at least allow leak sensors to have critical alerts on iOS if they didn’t already. That should be a no-brainer.

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Thanks for all this info - the only one I can’t seem to get to work is making it announce on my Google speaker - would you be able to share your MacroDroid to do this?

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I just checked, I wasn’t using MacroDroid for the Google Casting like I thought (though I’ll explain how you can still do this this). I was using Tasker initially (with the AutoCast Plugin), and later now also Home Assistant (I’ve been working on moving all my announcement automations to Home Assistant).

With Tasker, I just had an old phone watch the notifications for anything from Wyze with Leak detected and then had it autocast an audio to the Google speakers.

With Home Assistant, I just had any notification watching app (including Macrodroid or Tasker) watch notifications and then send a webhook to Home Assistant to turn on a helper which would then push a TTS broadcast to Google and Alexa speakers.

For Macrodroid straight to Alexa, you can create a virtual button press free here: Virtual Smart Home™ • URL Routine Trigger for Alexa Routines and then copy the webhook URL as the action on anything. So if Macrodroid sees “Leak detected” it will run that URL which tells Alexa that “button” was “pressed” and can then broadcast to any speaker as the action.

For just Macro Droid and Google Directly, probably the easiest option is to have the trigger be seeing the notification saying leak detected from Wyze and then set the action to pass a text to Google Assistant saying “Hey goog, broadcast [message text shared with it].”

If you really want to make it work with Macrodroid specifically, I usually go ask the people in the Macrodroid forums to help me construct exactly what I want it to do. Some of those guys are geniuses in getting it to work perfectly:

If you tell them the correct names of your devices and notification text, some of them can even construct it exactly like you need it and share it as a template you could just go download through the Macrodroid app!

My appologies for thinking I was using Macrodroid for the Google Casting. It turned out to be Tasker and Home Assistant. I use Macrodroid to announce it on my phone though. Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of all my different macros :laughing:

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