Recently discover you can setup an alexa routine to have your echos announce whatever you want when a person is detected on my v2s. Works great! I also have the routine turn a light on and change color in case I miss the announcement.

Yes it’s the best. And you don’t even need to set up a routine to do it! But it doesn’t work for everyone. [image] Alexa Person detection announcements with wyze cameras Services & Integrations When did this become available? [Screenshot_20200805-011607_Amazon Alexa]

Oh wow! Thanks. I’ll try that instead. I use an echo show 5 and echo. I see the echo show 5 has live view as well. Thanks again. I’ll remove announcements from my routine and just leave the light control. Report back if it doesn’t work.

Didn’t work but I’ll try again later. Maybe I have to wait for the cloud to update? I had disabled the routine I had for this to test. Maybe I should have deleted it? Put things back the way they were and all is good.

Not sure what you mean? I was just saying that the announcements work even without a routine if you just enable them at the Cameras level in Alexa devices.

Just did a retest. You are correct about just enabling the camera setting. On my echo show 5 it did announce but didn’t show a live view. I posted to the forum you sent me a link to that’s about this subject. I still like the routine because I can give it a custom announcement.

Ah, I see I just responded to you there. I don’t think pulling up a view is part of this announcement feature?

The person detection and announcement work great for me on two different cameras. The one thing I have noticed though is that there is not much of a time delay between reports. So for example I have a camera in the garage and if I start working in the garage the camera he is going to make an announcement every few minutes so I am looking for a way to turn that off. In other words I would like a delay before it can repeat the announcement. I know how to do that in the Alexa programming with a switch or motion detector but I don’t know how to control it from Wyze directly would appreciate any comments

I don’t think you can. You’re essentially asking for a “cooldown” period on the camera longer than 5 minutes. If your camera has CamPlus you can remove it and revert to legacy detection (if you have it) - that would get you out to 5 minutes. Or you could set an Alexa app routine to turn off power to the camera after the first announcement. None of these are very good.

You explained that well, thank you. But I see two things happening here. If I have a motion sensor in the game, it sees motion, and responds quite quickly. I get a message that there is motion. And I can build a time delay into the Routine to hold off on another message for as long as I want. That doesn’t stop the motion detector from working, it just stops the output from being processed to a speaker or output device. So really the need is only to have control of the message from the camera directly that it has processed a decision that there is a person in view. We shouldn’t have to turn off the camera or change our functions, we just need to kill the message reaching an output device for the interval we choose. Is there a way? It seems the camera message goes right through the system unchallenged! And it is annoying to have all these messages on the Echo speakers every few minutes. I would like to do the same thing that I can do with the motion detector, just delay processing of the message for a chosen time interval.

Have you tried suppressing the command? The setting is in the area where you set the times the routine is active. [Screenshot_20201222-203526_Amazon Alexa~2]

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