Switch for BulbCam

[Crease]

@mathewbeall

When i try to set up the automation, and say “turn bulb on” it doesn’t list the bulb cam, just regular bulbs.

That’s why you’re not really going to be able to do this:

@mathewbeall

put a wifi switch in the gang so that it can control the light on the bulb cam - the main reason being that my wife just wants to hit the switch like normal

The lighting integrated into Bulb Cam isn’t designed to work that way. See this:

@Crease

As far as lighting goes, you can control that in at least a couple of different places:

1. On Bulb Cam’s Live Stream screen, there should be an image in the lower-left corner of the view pane that looks like a Bulb Cam icon. You can tap that to turn the Bulb Cam (and any connected Accessory Bulbs) on or off, similar to tapping the spotlight of a Cam v4 or Cam OG on or off (using a different icon in the same location). That’s pretty much your manual control.
2. The Ambient Light settings are more of an automatic thing. That’s what I really like, because I’m currently using this where I previously had CFLs and no camera, and that circuit is controlled by a smart Wi-Fi switch that I had Google Home turning on or off based on sunset times. Now I just leave that circuit on (for the camera) and control the overnight lighting schedule with Ambient Light, activating even brighter light with the Motion settings (like you show in your screenshot).

Even when you’re using Ambient Light settings, you can still override that with the manual control on the Live Stream screen. The app should prompt you with a pop-up the first time you try to do that.

That’s not to say that what you want to do is impossible, because you probably could have some kind of switch that you use to trigger a Wyze Automation, and then that Automation could turn the lights on or off. At least when I’m looking in Automations for available Actions for Bulb Cam, I see those as options. I haven’t yet tried them.

If you have something like a Wyze Plug or Plug Outdoor that you’re not currently using, you could set up a couple of Automations as tests with the Plug being your “switch” in this case. At least that way you can confirm whether or not that piece of the puzzle fits.

@mathewbeall

I am guessing that there is a neutral in there

It might be worth checking. Initially you said that…

@mathewbeall

my house was built in 1968

…so I would guess that it doesn’t, but that’s just based on my experience as a non-electrician and what I’ve read about neutral not really becoming prevalent in residential wiring until sometime in the 1980s (if those sources can be trusted). Probably best to just check for yourself before going too far down the road with this.

2025-06-10T05:52:36Z Edit: Since you mentioned…

@mathewbeall

my hubitat

…I wonder what other connected gadgets you might be using. For instance, if you have contact sensors connected to your Hubitat hub, then you might be able to put something like this in the gang:

3DPrint Model: V2 Contact Sensor as a Decora Switch

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I don’t have any experience with Wyze Sense Hub, but I think you can use sensors connected to that as Automation triggers. With something like a Hubitat hub (with which I also have zero experience), if it can control something like a Wyze Plug, then you might be able to use whatever contact sensor as a signaling switch to the Hubitat, and then maybe it could change the state of the Wyze Plug, which you’re then using as a logical switch/bridge to trigger a Wyze Automation for the Bulb Cam light. It seems like it’d be possible, anyway. Whether or not it’s worth the trouble and response latency is up to you.

Again, though, if you consider doing something like that, then I’d probably want to start by testing some Wyze Automations to make sure those turn the light on or off in the way you’d expect, because that’s probably going to be the way you or your wife ultimately controls it if she really wants to avoid using the app.