Turn on light for X minutes

Services & Integrations
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I’m aware that there is a timer in the Wyze app that allows you to turn on your Wyze bulbs for a defined period of time. What we need is a way to call this from other sources such as “Alexa: Turn on the porch light for 5 minutes” or via an API call that can be used by IFTTT or similar 3rd party apps.

This would make setting up a security light, which many people have suggested doing, a breeze. If the timer can also be added to the shortcuts this functionality could be handled completely within the Wyze app. Furthermore adding the bulbs as a triggerable device in the same way as a sensor can be linked to cameras would be perfect.

Edit:
Discovered that when you create a shortcut to turn off a light when a motion sensor has been clear for X time the light doesn’t turn off. Seems that the timers here don’t work.
Fixed with update.

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Sorry about that! Could you please give the timer another try to see if it’s working better now?

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@UserCustomerGwen
Latest bulb updates look like they fixed this issue. Awesome! Timers work perfectly with both motion and contact sensors. Still can’t ask Alexa or Google to turn a bulb on for x time but that’s not a big deal, I’m just being overly critical when testing.

All we need now is the same “when camera is clear” clause on the cameras for bulb automation.

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Wonderful! I’m happy to hear it. In this case, I’m going to move this topic into #ask-the-community and mark it as solved. :slight_smile:

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Sorry but can someone tell me where this timer is found on the iPhone app version?

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never mind I found it :slight_smile:

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