I created an IFTTT applet to turn on my Wyze Cam2 in my garage when the garage door triggers the myQ Garage Hub. You can search for it at IFTTT.com . You will have to subscribe to IFTTT to make it work.

While what you have done is a great, thought-out automation, I am just curious why you want it to record at this time? I would think this is about the only time you don’t need it recording, because it is the exact one time when you know something happening is just you, and you already witnessed the…

I usually don’t have the camera on and I am using the Amazon Key delivery feature so I want to know only those motions when I get one of those deliveries. Besides, my camera sees just about every time a car drives by my garage and adjusting the sensitivity way down basically disables the motion dete…

And BTW, all cameras are on when I’m away any length of time.

You could have used motion sensors or maybe even a regular door sensor for this though, and thats just my opinion.

Yeah but I already had the Wyze cams and Smart Hub for the garage door. I don’t need additional components to have problems with. But…that might be a fallback solution if it doesn’t work that great. Thanks.

Thanks for the clarification, that all makes a lot of sense now! I forgot about the Amazon key aspect of the MyQ! I too have a MyQ (and love it!) but I don’t use the “Key by Amazon” feature because my garage is basically back behind the house where I don’t want delivery people going, so I sometimes …

I have the zones feature set up for the Ring on my front porch and it works pretty good. When Wyze gets there it will be very welcome. I use Rules to just manually turn on my cams usually but I can add timers as well. I just discovered IFTTT so this was my first attempt at creating an applet that …

I additionally created an applet to turn the camera back off once the garage door closes to prevent unwanted triggers of the cam recordings so that I only capture motion events associated with the garage door opening and closing. Seems to be working as I had hoped it would.

Did you tell it to turn off immediately when it closes, or X seconds after it closes? Could be good to finish recording the guy walking away.

I have the Cam Plus option so it records until all motion has ceased. So far so good with my comings and goings. The recording catches the door going open and keeps recording for a while. And then it captures the door closing as well. I like it. Placed my first order with Amazon Key garage delivery …

Turn on garage cam when garage door opens (myQ)

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ibhomer December 14, 2020, 12:24am 13

I created my own applet with IFTTT app on the Play Store and used the Garage Hub to trigger the Wyze camera in my garage.

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Turn on garage cam when garage door opens (myQ)

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