I am trying to set this up for a certain time period as an automation, but since trigger and action are the same device it asks me if I’m sure I want to proceed.
Now I wonder if this will actually work. I’m not home to test it right now.
It should work fine, I have that exact set up with spotlight on several cams (in my case it is all motion instead of just person but same difference), it gives that same warning. I think it is just an “are you sure you picked the right device” type reminder.
Thanks! Good to know!
And do I understand that the siren turns off automatically after 30 seconds?
Yes, it will play the siren for 30 seconds. If you want it longer or shorter automatically you have to do some complicated wizardry.
And yeah, don’t worry about the warning about it being the same device. That warning is helpful in different situations, but irrelevant for what you’re doing. Just ignore it.
Thanks!
30 seconds will hopefully be enough to warn off an intruder.
it works
Danke!
What is the wizardry to turn it off after 3-5 seconds? Other than use “wait time” which does not exist yet.
What I would do if I wanted the siren to run less than 30 seconds is to connect Wyze up to a 3rd party platform such as Alexa, Google, Home Assistant, etc.
With Alexa or Google you would likely need something like a Wyze plug to act as an intermediate trigger. So the routine would look like this:
- Wyze Rule Person detected → turn on siren and Wyze plug
- 3rd party rule: Wyze plug turns on → wait x seconds then turn off plug
- Wyze Rule: plug turns off → turn off siren
Home Assistant (free to self-host) with the HACS Wyze integration, can control the siren directly and doesn’t need a plug as an intermediary. You would do a more simple automation:
- Wyze Rule Person detected → turn on siren
- Home Assistant rule: siren turns on → wait x seconds then turn off siren
Now with either method, the siren can be turned off after just a couple of seconds instead of having to wait the entire 30 seconds.
There are a few other more complex ways of accomplishing this. A person could use an Android notification parsing automation app (tasker, macrodroid) to control the Wyze app directly (either with an android phone or an android emulator on a computer) even without a plug as an intermediary trigger.
I could probably think up other options, but the above are the primary solutions I would personally consider in this situation. But they are already typically more effort than most people are willing to do, so I jokingly call the workarounds complicated wizardry because it involves using something not directly built into the Wyze app itself like it should be. 