At one point, a Wyze rep said I cannot “pause” a rule temporarily. They only way to do so is to actually DELETE the rule. I find this quite disturbing.
I use a rule that turns off a few cams during daytime, like 7:30AM to around 11:45PM. If not, I get well over 100 notifications working around inside. But I do want the events while we are sleeping.
I was told that by “disabling” this rule does nothing, which is very true. Disabling does nothing. So If I have to leave for a day or several days, I have to actually DELETE the rule in its entirelty, then re-do the whole rule when I get back.
This is very time consuming.
There must be a way to enable and disable without having to totally delete a rule and start over.
I know it might be possible to just manually do this, like turn cams off/on but this can be a pain to deal with daily. Besides I have 10 cams and I only want to do this of a couple cams
Not really understanding what it is you are trying to accomplish. You can setup automations to enable/disable cameras or notifications without deleting anything. You can choose one camera or all. You can choose and automation or a shortcut.
Can you please post a screenshot of the rule that is causing you grief?
I have many dozens of automations, and they absolutely can be disabled. Then when I want that automation working, re-enable it. No need to delete them.
I’m not sure why someone told you that it doesn’t work to disable them. I disable automations all the time and that works for me.
Open the automation. At the top you will see a setting toggle that says “Enable”…just toggle that off and the rule gets suspended and won’t run again until you toggle it back on.
If it’s not working for you for some reason then it’s a bug that we probably need to get reported.
For some reason this is not working. A month ago, I went out of town for 1 week. I went to my “bedtime” Automation (Rule) and clicked on “Disable” Then I should get motion etc during the daytime. But my cleaners came a few days later, and not ONE notification or motion detection showed up by them roaming the entire house for 1 hour.
I do realize it might take 24 hours after you disable but that isnt the case. If I go to, lets say, my kitchen cam 2 days later, it will still show cams are toggled off for motion and notifications. One would think by disableing the rule would automaticcaly turn them on 24/7?
I believe you. This must be a recent app bug causing the toggle to not work (we’ve seen this with a few other toggles since the GUI update). I may not have noticed since I haven’t toggled anything very recently. Can you post what your exact app version is?
To get your exact App version: Open the app → Go to the Account tab → Select About
And maybe submit and post a log number we can pass on to someone at Wyze?
We’ll also see if anyone else can replicate the issue so we can demonstrate to Wyze that it isn’t an isolated edge case.
See below…this person says I cannot “disable” until they go back live at 11:45pm. This very well could cause my issue if true. I have Android V3.2.7 (595)
If you disable the automation while detection and notifications are enabled, they will stay enabled. If you disable the automation while detection and notifications are disabled. They will remain disabled.
Automation logic is at the start time of the rule the actions fire. And at the end time the inverse of your action fires. Two separate actions. If I create an automation at 5pm to turn a light on from 3pm to 7pm, I have to wait until Tomorrow at 3pm for it to turn on the light. Just because I am within that timeframe now doesn’t mean it will turn on right now.
So to confirm…If I want to have the rule disabled and have cams on all the time, I have to wait until 11:45pm (My ‘on’ time) then in 24 hrs or so, they will then remain on until I go back and “re-enable” the rule?
My whole deal is to try to get the cams running 24/7 while I am gone to catch motion during the daytime (if any) when they are usually off.
I think what he is saying to instead of having one automation that performs whatever actions for some amount of time or until some end time, instead create two automations - one to perform whatever actions, and then a second automation to undo it. Neither automation has an end time set.
As long as you disable the rule while the cameras are active they will stay so until you re-enable the rule/automation until the next time you hit the shutoff time in the rule.
You can disable the automation whenever, but if you’re disabling the automation when the cameras are set to something different than what you want, then you’ll have to go into the individual camera settings and change them to what you want when you’re gone.
