We are using Wyze door locks at two different properties. It would be great if I could tag the door locks to the property address along with cameras and security system in the Wyze app, similar to the Google NEST app.
It would also be nice to be able to fully separate cameras, locks, and other Wyze stuff based on loaction.
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This is what I’d like to see, since my Wyze account/profile is capable of storing my physical address:
- From the app’s Home screen, at Account ➜ Home, they should include a (add) button to add other physical locations to a user’s profile/account.
- If a user has more than one location listed on this screen, then the user should be able to select one location as the default location.
- Tapping on an address should provide a facility that lists (checklist fashion) every Wyze device associated with the account that is…
- static (so don’t include things like Watches, Headphones, Buds, etc.) and
- capable of using time-based features (Local Schedules, Automations, Vacation Mode, etc.).
- A user could then simply check a box beside each device that’s assigned to that location.
- Navigating to an individual device’s Device Info screen (in Settings) would also display the assigned location for that device and allow the user to relocate the device from that screen, as well. (So a user could assign a device’s physical location via two different pathways in the app.)
If Wyze could do this and program their time-based features to respect a user’s chosen location(s) for that user’s device(s), then this seems like it could also solve the problem of people reporting things like camera time stamp changes when they travel to a different time zone. This location-based device assignment would essentially “lock” a device to a time zone. That would make this feature addition useful even for users with devices only at a single location.
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Yeah, I totally thought this is what they were doing when they started to set that up. Then nothing more ever happened.
It served obvious to me how easily They could set up the UI to have multiple location profiles For static devices like you said. Then they could still include all the dynamic or movable devices all the time.
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Yeah, I’ve used static devices for a long time without ever filling out the “Home” information in the app, and I wondered if that was why Vacation Mode has never really worked well for me. Getting around to filling out the address hasn’t really seemed to resolve that issue for me, either. It appears that they’re offering a way for users to set a location using this part of the app but then not actually making any use of that information, so I wonder why it’s even there.
I think they could and should use the information if the user is willing to provide it, and I think it has the potential to be more accurate than some geolocation measures, plus it doesn’t rely on a phone’s location at any given time. This seems like a way to solve multiple problems.
Some good ideas.
Maybe offer to set a fixed location like always showing weather at home when you travel or choose to use GPS.
With Samsung, I have found the GPS to be accurate. I use it to track my every day movement when home or traveling. (Please excuse me for those that feel using location tracking is unsafe. I am glad we have a choice.)
I’m not concerned about tracking, but I tend to leave Android’s Location permission off out of habit (one fewer feature to use battery) and enable it only when I need access to an app feature that requires location. I agree that GPS is accurate, and I’ve also seen apps and Web sites using IP-based geolocation tell me that I’m in a completely different part of the state, a couple of hundred miles away from my actual location.
That kind of error shouldn’t have a significant effect on time-based app functions…except that my state spans a couple of time zones. I imagine there are other scenarios where location detection causes problems, as well. That’s why Wyze should just allow a user to specify the location (which they already do) and then actually use the information provided by the user for executing time-based functions (which they don’t appear to do).
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Agreed.
I like the tracking to see where I went yesterday or years ago.
You don’t need the tracking to tell you that you go to that Mexican joint on Monday evenings! 
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Be careful what you ask for. Wyze might get wise and bill separate Cam Ultimate licenses.
Yeah, technically speaking, Cam Unlimited used to have a disclaimer that it could only be used for devices at a single location, which is honestly a reasonable expectation. Apparently some people thought they could try to sell unlimited free licenses to family, friends, neighbors, and even strangers and then just share the cam back to the other account. That’s why they had to add in the single location restriction even though it seems like common sense.