FWIW, I believe that same community member posted that very screenshot to the Forum a couple of months ago:
I wish I could use the sensors with the security kit, right now they are a $100 paper weight.
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Some of us can/have used the Wyze sensors directly in home assistant locally.
The easiest way is to get an old Wyze sense v1 USB bridge. That is the thing that the original V1 sensors used to connect to which plugged into the back of either the V2 camera or the pan V1 camera. Then, you could take that and plug it into a USB port connected to your home assistant node, and run a HACS integration that lets that bridge work in home assistant instead of through Wyze. Then you just sync the sensors to the bridge and voila! Now they work locally on home assistant. Both the old v1 and new V2 sensors, both contact and motion sensors. (Note that the original Wyze sense integration That changed the way. Some kind of variable worked, but people found an easy update to fix that, I just haven’t bothered to apply the update yet, but I was using the old integration for a long time, and it’s on my list of things to update so it’ll go back to working again with all my sensors).
You can sometimes buy those old things on eBay.
I’m sure it’s possible to use any other 915mHz bridge to do the same thing.
They actually work extremely well with this integration and connect totally locally. They’re fast, they have a very long distance with no interference issues, the battery lasts forever, etc. Great sensors. It may or may not be worth the effort for you, but they don’t have to be paperweights.
Alternatively, you could try to resell them. Wyze products typically hold their value really well because they already sell with extremely low profit margins.
(edit: I may have misunderstood the comment. I was talking about the standalone Contact and motion sensors…if by sensors the user means the camera sensors, then yeah, those would be nice to have. You can get SOME camera sensors through the HACS Wyze Integration, such as toggle power, siren, motion detection capability, notifications, floodlight, etc)
I’m not a long term customer, just a couple to 3 years. Have about 15 various cameras. They’ve operated well enough, when AWS isn’t wacky etc.
The Wyze RTSP is not useful to me to just display display live views in HAOS via the camera integration and how I use cameras. Perhaps for others that’s useful.
Without the sensors, person, animal etc., useless to me.
I tried hard, installed Frigate in Docker Linked to HAOS. Never had anything in Frigate logs except lots of Wyze RTSP errors. Months of frustration. They always streamed, buggy, but logs filled with errors, irritate me. Sorta gave up.
Reo WiFi cams aren’t perfect in Frigate either,.So far.
What does work well as mentioned above is the Reo WiFi 4ks and HAOS integration, Better still would be POE cameras and Frigate.
With those and the Reo Platinum HAOS integration, snaps shots, very accurate, few to NO false positives for person, which is most important to me, in close especially.
I’m still a Wyze customer, I like the OGs window mounts, the V4s outside, Pan V3s in basement and garage. App usage only though.
But as to Wyze cams ever being useful to “me” in HAOS? I don’t see that happening near term, or probably at all.
But, they have new inside window mount cams, those I’ll use if OGs ever take a hit for general security.
I don’t use Tinycam anymore, bought it, tried it, but not useful for me and my usage.
If I can’t tie them into HAOS with sensors, not useful to me personally.
I did subscibe to Frigate+. Might add some POE someday. But for now, all wifi at the moment. TBD.
The Reo’s expose person animal and vehicle in HAOS which is enough for me.
They will probably…replace any indoor/outdoor Wyze cams down the road. 4k, Pan V3s, rtsp, onvif, etc., fully enough HAOS integration.
They’re (Reo) ai detection isn’t perfect either. Thinks me on a lawn tractor is an animal or a 4 wheeler in the farm lane is animal. lol Person is very accurate so far in my testing.
Wyze detections V4 etc., are not useful for security alarms, person can be rain splatter shadows, etc. which would just be false alarms and sirens. Neighbor might complain. lol
No, I won’t tweak settings forever for either or any brand. But, useful for open the Wyze app, see what it is. Which is pretty accurate, person is “usually” a person in nice sunny weather.
But I can’t have sirens screaming because of shadows or cars going by and an OG says person. Doubt Wyze OG can see inside a car at 40-50 yards.
Cheap cams ai is just not deadly accurate. Cheap as in under $100 each to $250 for Pans, Zoom, or Floods.
So still a customer of sorts, like my Wyze cams, but all brands so far, leave a lot to be desired in modern security, like using in HAOS and Alarmo security etc.
Cheap cams may never have accurate ai for my use purposes. POE might.
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