More broken Wyze stuff

I believe this is correct. If I create a household routine in Google Home, I can select a switch turns on as a Starter, but I can’t then select that same device in the same routine as an Action, because it’s greyed out. It appears that Google Home does not allow self-referential routines of this type…

…except that it does: I don’t have a Wyze Switch, but I used a Plug Outdoor as a stand-in for testing and set up a Google Home household routine this way:

  1. Add starter > When a device does something > [selected my plug outlet here] > Turns on or off > Turns on > Add starter
  2. Add action > Try adding your own > Turn off [my selected plug outlet] in 1 minute. > Done

When I went to save the routine, Google Home prompted me to select a device under Configuration, so I selected Don’t play media, because I don’t need to hear anything with this one. I think having a media device selected is a standard requirement when you “Try adding your own” actions.

The first time I tested the routine, it failed. Google Assistant (on my phone) gave me this message: “Sorry, because of potential risk to safety, I can’t schedule actions for devices configured as outlets.” :-1:

Then I went into the device’s settings in Google Home and selected its Device type as Switch (Outlet) and tried again. Fail: “Sorry, because of potential risk to safety, I can’t schedule actions for devices configured as switches.” :-1:

Then I went into the device’s settings in Google Home and selected its Device type as Fan (Outlet) and tried again. Success! :+1:

So it’s possible, but there are some caveats and hoops to jump through in order to get it to work. I think the simplest and most straightforward work-around I’ve seen so far is what @hanserikn suggested in another topic:

That has the added advantage of staying within the Wyze ecosystem.

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