Time Zone for Wyze Plugs

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Welcome to the Forum, @stevewigren!

Although I haven’t traveled to Italy, what you’re describing is a frustration I’ve also experienced, even when I’m away from home in the same time zone. I still don’t have a good concept of how Vacation Mode is supposed to work, but in my experience it hasn’t worked as expected for any of my Plugs or Bulb Colors, because it has turned things on outside of stated operating hours.

Regarding schedules, you didn’t say whether you were using Local Schedules or Schedule-type Automations, and that might be part of the solution for you because these things operate differently. If you have the original Wyze Plug, then your only scheduling option is with Automations (formerly Rules), but newer Plug models have the Local Schedules feature, so determining which you have is where I’d start, and then keep this in mind:

1. Local Schedules (set through a Plug’s Settings ➜ Schedules) are stored on the Plug and can run based on the Plug’s time, even if the Plug doesn’t have an Internet connection.
2. Schedule-type Automations ( Add ➜ Automation ➜ Schedule) run from Wyze’s servers and require an active Internet connection to function.

That still doesn’t answer my own question about how a particular device determines its time, though. I’ve read other Forum posts complaining about cameras changing time when a person travels to a different (non-home) time zone and opens the Wyze app to check something—then the current time on the phone (which has changed because the person has traveled) gets applied to the camera, instead of the camera maintaining its own local time. It seems like kind of a mess, and I don’t have a good concept of what’s happening or why it seems to operate this way. There are several Wishlist topics related to these issues:

Set device time zones, update from time server

Please consider having an option to define the cameras timezone so that when we view our cameras from another timezone we are not prompted to sync the time. I know we can dismiss the prompt but it is really annoying to those of us who travel a lot.

Vacation Mode - Allow user selected timeframes and sunrise sunset options

Vacation Mode for the bulbs. It would be nice if the user could choose the time(s) that the bulbs on vacation mode go on. Not just 6-9am and 6-11pm. Additionally, it seems that all the bulbs go and off at the same time which doesn’t make one believe that someone is home since they are in different rooms all over the house. [Mod Edit]: Title modified to be more inclusive (all devices that support vacation mode) and to enhance search clarity.

Time Zone Control

Would be great if the app had time zone control. I use the cameras and smart outlets in a different time zone from where I live. When I want to adjust things in the other time zone, it defaults to the time zone the app is in on my phone rather than the time zone that the device is in. This is confusing and requires changing times when I travel or offsetting rather than just selecting the time zone you want to use for the control. This is particularly confusing when using sunset or sunrise an…

That third topic seems most like the one related to the issue you described, I think. I’d encourage you to visit those, click the Vote button above the initial post, and add your own comments/use-cases to support the features you’d like to see Wyze implement.

I still have testing Vacation Mode on my to-do list, because I want to have a better understanding of what’s happening there, but I haven’t made it a high priority. In your case, I think I’d look at the Wishlist and also try using Local Schedules (vs. Automations) to see if that makes a difference in your experience. I don’t know if it will or not, but it seems like it’d be worth trying.