Hi. I have to control an exhaust fan which is power by a wyze plug. I need to power on the fan every 30min for 3 min during the day. How to do it other then create a lot of schedules in auomation? Thanks in advance.
This is genius. I’m not sure I would’ve thought to use both “Has been on for” and “Has been off for” as triggers in alternating Automations. Strong work! 
I was using a plug to control a dc portable cooler to ripen some pears. It kept getting too cold and freezing up. The short break kept things running
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That’s a whale of a lot easer than an on / off command every 30 minutes!
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I use a Plug to run Home & Away Profiles. via Google Location Sensing (since it can detect when the whole family leaves and won’t run it until everyone is gone).
Google sees we Leave —> Turn Plug off.
Inside Wyze Automations —> If Plug Turned off… turn on cameras, turn on motion detection, turn on notifications, turn off lights, lock door.
Google sees we come Home → Turn Plug On.
Inside Wyze Automations —> if Plug turns on … disable notifications on all cameras, unlock front door.
Then later…
Inside Wyze Automations —> If Plug has been on 15 minutes… → re-enable notifications, lock door.
This basically allows us to come home, get in the house, and try to stave off a bunch of notifications. But then turn them back on eventually because I would want them on later. Same idea of an on/off in a time period like the fan example… just a few more steps.
You can also spice that up and have a day vs. evening version of this that turns lights on after Sunset to greet you when you come home. I have my garage lights and front porch light brighten when I arrive at night (as an example).
You could use a temp sensor to react to this as well. I was doing this with my water softener in the garage when it got cold in January. I had a warming light setup that would turn the plug on if the temp sensor when below 35 or something. Worked great.
I then had a counter automation that would turn the plug off once it warmed up to 40 or something.
The automation game seems to be a bunch of point/counter-point automations. Whatever you turn on or automate, you have to turn it off or disable it.
I also create automations that Reset the whole setup to default in case things go wacky. Kind of like a MASTER silence on the whole house.
I don’t own any Wyze temp sensors. I use YoLink for all that. Could have done something in HomeAssistant with a Wyze/YoLink automation but my solution was easier.
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It’s brilliantly simple and will work as long as the Internet connection back to Wyze’s servers (assuming they’re running correctly) is intact. Good stuff.
I really need to think about Home Assistant. I don’t know anything about it.
My needs seem to be met with Google/Alexa/Wyze. But I don’t know what I don’t know.. the new NBT filter for A.I. notifications is a game changer in terms of having to accommodate all the alerts/notifications. I have all outside cameras using it and I never get spammed. I only get events that I want… which seem to always be people or car related.
I wonder if could do any other fun stuff with the ecosystem if I had more granular control?
If you were to sell me on Home Assistant, what would be the #1 thing you would say about it?
Maybe this is another thread topic to start and not here?
It integrates multiple ecosystems and consolidates control in one place. I have Wyze, YoLink, TP-Link, Z-wave, etc. all running with automations across platforms.