I have 3 pan cam V3s and 7 OGs, bulbs. They’ve all worked great and I like them a lot and they’ll stay in the windows or outside where I put 2 of them. Small glitches here or there. Or caused by Wyze downtime cloud issues.
Bulbs will move to Zigbee. Same with entry sensors, currently Pre-Wyze anyhow.
Nothing to do with cloud issues Wyze has experienced. Nothing to see here.
Strictly that they’re not home assistant compatible without jumping thru Tinycam server hoops and adding another or more hardware like a mini computer, raspberry pi etc. to feed them into the home assistant via Tinycam server.
So, other than the current ones which I’ll continue to use and replace as necessary, I guess its POE cameras for future purchases other than a here or there Wyze spot placement.
Get home assistant compatible or reach out to the Wyze home assistant integration developer. Currently its useful for bulbs only mostly with my cam models anyhow.
New to Home Assistant and interested in expanding connected devices - Would consider purchase of more Wyze products IF they were directly HA compatible.
I’m in the same boat, still waiting for goma assistant integration. I love Wyze but all that’s missing is being able to add the cameras to my dashboard.
I am also desperate for Home Assistant compatibility and will also continue to advocate STRONGLY for this.
I read some recent articles that are as super excited about the new updates to moving Home Assistant into a brand new “Open Home Foundation” as I was about the announcement. Tech journals are saying it basically ensures Home Assistant will be a huge competitor to the big tech companies now. They’re quoting this from the State of the Home video that explains why they created a foundation to “own” the rights to all these projects now:
“I want to make it clear what our intentions are to the world: That we’re driven by higher goal than money, and that we are not for sale.”
Open Home Foundation is going to oversee and manage more than 240 smart home projects that can now no longer be bought and stolen by big tech companies (because they have to abide by the foundation’s edict), ensuring the future-proofing and trust of these projects as a major Smart Home System people can’t ignore anymore, particularly since they will also be part of governing groups like the CSA and represent user interests for industry standards and privacy input. They’re basically going make sure Home Assistant/OHF is always lumped in with the highest consideration for compatibility the way people currently all try to integrate with Google/Alexa/Apple/SmartThings…OHF/Home Assistant will now be among those big boys and hard to ignore and they’re saying it’s guaranteed to be listed among the top 5 major platforms now!
If there was ever a better time to trust that a Home Assistant integration is a safe investment for Wyze and other companies to make, there is absolutely no better time than now since they’ve just guaranteed it’s not going anywhere and it will explode in growth now that devs and others know it’s not going to be bought or stolen or canceled like so many other past projects. It’s a safe bet now. It’s a solid long-term project and the one with the second most commits/submissions of any [opensource] project. It’s exploding in growth and progression.
Come on Wyze! Jump on the train and support Open Home Foundation (Home Assistant) now! The timing has never been better! Just like you support Google/Alexa. This is another of the biggest platform players out there, and by far the most powerful, versatile, etc. I bet the Home Assistant team will even only be too happy to HELP do a bunch of the work for you. hit them up, make it happen!
Um…maybe wish for something better than Google Home/Assistant support? That’s my current smart home environment, and there are plenty of topics and posts here related to Wyze/Google integration shortcomings, if not outright failures.
I take your point, though, and I like the idea of an ecosystem that prioritizes interoperability. Thank you for sharing this!
I caught that video also and appears they are already working on voice gadgets to replace Google/Alexa etc. its already there I suppose if you make tour own voice device perhaps with ESPhome. Might require Nabu Casu subscription for voice and remote access, but I already have that.
They also had a video with the top 4 voice controlled gadgets some fellows built DIY.
Personally, I’ll probably never use much voice, just automations. I don’t use Google or Alexa myself.
Sorta thought they said HA Green would be available on Amazon for new HA startups.
I’m agreeing and think it will take off. Or hope it does. I still have several Simplisafe cameras and sensors for alarms, useless for integration though.
As we may have already discussed, Alarmo is a nice integration in HA, monitoring if wanted.
Unfortunately I’m getting old, they better hurry up at Nabu Casa and Wyze. It’d be great if they’d work with the unofficial Wyze integration and get “all” or most new cameras into home assistant. Easily. Keep pushing.
Yes, I have an Atom Echo device, but the speaker is SUPER WEAK. It works to give commands to though, but if you want to use it as a speaker, you need to connect it to a separate speaker. They said in the State of the Open Home video that they have their own smart speakers coming out later this year, so I’ll just wait for that.
I actually have some Google Speakers that are bricked that I am going to use their replacement controller inside of it. (the early google speaker versions lock up if you go too many weeks without them being connected to the internet, so when I moved, I left them in a box too long and now they’re worthless…it’s a known issue and Google doesn’t care…so I’m happy I can revive them with this new opensource project to turn those into local speakers now).
I think all their current efforts are devoted to this new service they keep hinting about working on for the last couple months. I think after that launches they may devote some resources to other stuff.
I think it’s most likely that they will stall until the camera libraries are launched by Matter though. They have long said they will likely not do anything with integrations until after Matter decides on camera standards. Once that happens, then they will make decisions about how to move forward. So I am pretty sure we have to wait for that first.
On the plus side, Matter recently publicly announced they are in the process of working on the camera standards now. They didn’t make it into the latest release yet, but they did tease us with some of the cool things we’ll be able to do with it including cool “casting” abilities to TV’s, and push messages and dialog support among many other things. It sounds like Apple tried to convince the consortium to use Home Kit Proprietary code, and everyone else agreed that proprietary code can’t be allowed for Matter stuff, so there is a little politic-ing going on which I wouldn’t be surprised if that is part of the reason Matter is moving so slowly.
Stumbled on this page while searching for Wyze support for HomeAssistant. Given that there is none officially with partial works, I canceled my Wyze Cam Unlimited $10/mo plan.
That’s partially with no video. OGs have no motion detection, but notifications, power, siren etc, pan cams v3s and v4s do also and motion on those, not sure about others etc.
What else?
Outdoor plugs are there for on and off.
Wyze color bulbs of course work for me and sensors etc, which I also don’t have any Wyze sensors. Just Zigbee and some Zwave stuff. Don’t have any other Wyze cam models to know more.
I run it in HA just for the bulbs, Wyze app does the notifications and vids well enough for me.
Though it’d be nice with just one app and have the Wyze app as backup. For my personal preferences only.
There are some new/fixed features coming soon too, thanks to one of our very own Wyze Mavens, @IEatBeans who just barely started looking it and fixed or added new stuff as new commits ready for the next update. I’m excited for the Floodlight controls in particular!
I currently use it for lights/plugs (they connect FAST, locally with way more options). I haven’t done A LOT with cameras yet, though I plan to add some automations related to my guest mode automations (turn some cameras off or their spotlights, etc when guests are visiting, like I do for a lot of lighting automations already).
Sensors are pretty pointless in HA at the moment since Wyze banned polling them, but you can work around that by creating a virtual sensor in Home Assistant and having Alexa make the virtual sensor match the state of the Wyze sensor, and then they work well.
I’ve been adding Aqara Zigbee sensors myself, need about 6 more counting garage doors.
So far over months of sensor testing, its been working, Zigbee Zha so far.
I’ve had no time to play with Taskers beta HA integration to see what it can and can’t do and the devs been on the injury list I think.
Is there something on GitHub or somewhere about his Wyze work?
I just bought 1 Aqara contact sensor (they outperformed basically all other sensors in a comparison test of battery life and accuracy), and some Aqara motion sensors (since they take AAA batteries). The Ikea ones are working well. I haven’t tried the Aara one yet.
I’ll let him decide what to share on any of that when he sees my tag, though what he’s been doing in the Wyze Home Assistant API is publicly available in that project’s Github section. I have just been reading the conversations between him and the other devs and am really excited he fixed some stuff that’s been broken forever so it will work now whenever the push the updates through.
I have one I’m testing, Aqara P1 motion, that one takes two don’t remember the number lithiums. Works fine for motion for months with a Wyze bulb. Haven’t used the occupancy part of it. But, they’re about $24 each, unless on sale.
@carverofchoice
Playing with Alarmo today. On intrusion alert, ie: alarm triggered, turn on a bunch of Wyze cameras sirens until disarmed. As well as all Wyze bulbs, which I grouped in HA, 100 percent, red, might even flash them.
Amazing how easy and relatively inexpensive it has been to replace my Simplisafe mistake purchase.
As to camera live views, I would probably grab my phone anyhow, rather than look at my HA tablet kiosk I setup, in a hurry anyhow, for now.
I have a little bag full of Simplisafe devices I took down from an office my wife’s business took over. We were never going to consider using Simplisafe. I was hoping the sensors, etc would be Zigbee or something I could still end up using, but they use proprietary protocols that make them worthless to me. Sad.
For the camera views, I will probably also keep using the Wyze app for the most part. However, for most everything else, I just pull up the home assistant mobile app because I have so much customizability with the dashboards there. I will probably eventually create some dedicated to specific camera live view layouts too.
I do want to get to a point where most all of my automations and changeable features are controlled through Home Assistant though.
Yeah, it’s (SimpliSafe) a closed system. It is easy to set up and use for what it is, but it’s definitely not made or marketed for real home automation.
I actually like their monitoring service, which has been reliable and responsive, in my experience. Their online technical support is worse than Wyze’s, though (and that’s saying something), and they don’t allow for permissioning/provisioning multiple app users, though customers have been requesting this for years, and they promised delivery this spring. Still waiting.
Yep, I learned the hard way, but not the worst mistake I ever made. Lol
I did load the SS home assistant integration and have it running now, but with sensor polling time being 1 to 20 seconds, it’s almost useless, and so that’s why I bought a bunch of Aqara entry sensors etc. I also blew a lot of the money on their inferior doorbells and outdoor cameras.
My Wyze cams blow them away. Their monitoring policies and mine also conflicted, I monitor myself now.
Anyone using home assistant with Wyze wildcat integration and Alarmo?
I know I can get some notifications or think I can from Ogs, pan v3s, and maybe v4s.
I can toggle the siren switch, but faults out on unauthorized. Manual or via integration, faults out.
With Wyze integration I can turn on bulbs, but apparently, I can’t turn on sirens with Alarmo, may be Wyze protecting their own alarm system, which I get, a little or the Wyze integration bug, but it faults on unauthorized, so I’m leaning restricted by Wyze.
Which means, it makes me a little angry either way. The Wyze HA integration is practically useless to just turn on bulbs or maybe receive notifications, which I can easily do with Zigbee locally. Etc.
I’ll order a couple of Zigbee Heiman Zha sirens and probably remove the Wyze integration from home assistant.
Leaning hard towards all local control now, including future cameras, bulbs etc.
Wyze should speak to this one way or another. Either integrate or tell us no, it ain’t gonna happen.
