[POLL] How about that Wyze app 3.0 (in Beta 2!) 💪

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@Earl.Automation

preaching the value of emojis for naming cameras and automations

I used to use emojis for most of my devices, and I agree it can have HUGE benefits. Lots of people also use them to help find rules. In fact it was this thread that gave me the idea to do this for devices too:

Creating More Descriptive Rule Names Using Emojis

Rule names are restrictive in that you can’t use a lot of characters in the title. This makes it very hard to manage them, as you often have to open each Rule to see what it does, especially if you manipulate a lot of devices in the rule. I’ve solved that to a degree by using emojis. I put one as the first character of each camera name. When you get used to your selections, you can tell what a multi-event rule does just by reading the emojis. Here are the camera names I commonly use: [Scr…

The problem I ran into for doing this with my devices is that I like to use the cameras with lots of other platforms including Home Assistant, Alexa, Google, etc. And it can get difficult to tell an AI by audio to stream or turn on/off or do something else to a device whose name starts with an emoji So I ended up removing most of my emojis from the device name because it actually made things too inconvenient for my particular use-case where I use the cameras in so many other applications where I need to be able to say the exact name of the camera, and having symbols and emojis can be nearly impossible for voice conversion to text or text to speech conversions.

This is why, while I LOVE the workaround creativity, and TOTALLY support this option/suggestion/usecase for some users where this won’t matter…I still think Wyze NEEDS to add normal sorting options anyway like is fairly standard practice.