Mike, thank you for your great explanation and use case. I have been advocating for Wyze to allow the lamp socket to more easily be used in lighter conditions for a while too. You are not the first to struggle with the “dark enough” situation. I think we are fighting an uphill battle though because there are a lot more people asking Wyze to change the light sockets to be more sensitive about turning on when it has light. The issue made it into fix-it-friday and Wyze is working on trying to prevent it from turning on during the day-time:
Unfortunately, it seems the lamp sockets are even more sensitive about not turning on when there is light. It would be nice if they just allowed us to set a schedule when it was active regardless of the amount of light. Or I wish they would allow us the following settings as options:
- Turn on the lamp socket ANY TIME motion is detected (day or night)
- Turn on the lamp socket when motion is detected only at night (sunset to sunrise and even if there are already other lights on).
Also would love if the timer option kept the lights on for that amount of time until the motion has been clear for at least that many minutes. Say we set a timer for 3 minutes…right now the timer starts the moment the camera first detects movement and will shut off in exactly 3 minutes even if there is still movement going on and a person present in the camera view. I am hoping they can fix it from a static timer (shuts off no matter what when that amount of time passes) to a more dynamic one (shuts off after that much time passes with no other movement occurring during that time).
I’ll keep advocating for this. When this subject next comes up with the Wyze devs in the beta threads as they’re making adjustments I will try to remember to reference your use case as another example for why this is important to account for. They’re in the middle of testing some firmware updates, so there should be some chances to give feedback as they work on this.