Rules (schedules) Not Saving On Wyze Plugs

[nerdland]

@Gooch4130

The verbiage used in the app is poor. The schedule I am creating is to ‘turn on’ the plug at a certain time. I pick a start and end time, but it’s not clear in the app that the end time will turn the plug back off. I realize this is common sense, but I was second guessing what ‘end time’ means when the schedule did not work last night. I think you can improve the wording/usability in the app Wyze.

I agree. As someone who writes code, I think it’s confusing and it opens up a lot of potential questions about what happens in certain scenarios. If a plug is supposed to be ON from 12:00-3:00, for example, is the server continuously checking to ensure that it’s on? Taken literally, the computer code part of my brain would suggest yes, but I’m not sure if that’s what happens in practice, nor would that be very useful. What’s happening (I think) is simply that two events are firing – one at the beginning and one at the end.

I haven’t tested every potential scenario, but for my rules, I’ve set them up as two simple on/off rules, rather than one rule with durations, since the behavior is more predictable and the logic makes more sense.

There was a discussion about this issue the other day over here:

Device Settings on Camera vs. Rules - Which Wins?

The rules should override things because they basically just change what your previous setting was. So, if I start with my notifications turned ON in the camera’s settings, then I set a schedule rule to turn the notifications OFF at 6pm, I’ll be able to go back into the camera’s settings after 6pm and see that the settings now say that the camera notifications are OFF. So it’s not so much that rules “override” settings, per se – it’s that the rules SET the settings. Does that make sense? By th…