This thread just popped up as new.
I set my cams and lights once upon install and never use vacation mode. I want the lights to come on if I am there or not. Don’t even adjust for DST. If I died, no one would know.
If I lived in an apartment, maybe setting a TV in vacation mode would be cool. Just my opinion.
Good to know. I’ve got all v2 white bulbs. Broken feature maybe.
Okay, I grabbed a portable handlamp or trouble light, a socket adapter, and a 2-pack of Bulb Color (2023 Version):
- bulb cage + + = TEST!This is now near my PC so I can passively monitor it while I’m at my desk. I’ll do some testing with Vacation Mode and see what happens (which will likely involve submitting another log and opening another ticket).
I also hope I didn’t offend @sockofrog! This really does seem like a broken feature at this point, and I’d like to see it definitively fixed. I seriously appreciate @sockofrog for putting this back on my radar.
Even more passive: the automation I posted above logs like so: 
Oh, that’s a good great idea! I could write a Device & Service Trigger so that whenever the lights in that group turn on some other thing happens (maybe turn on a Plug or something), then I’d have a record in the history. 
I was also thinking of just pointing a spare Cam OG at it. 
2025-06-08T04:14:02Z Edit: Okay, now I’m mildly (perversely) annoyed that it appears to be working as expected and operating within the correct time frame…at least so far:
The image shows two different Device & Service Trigger Automations:
When one of the bulbs in the group (I can’t trigger off a group, so I have to choose an individual device) turns on, the trigger turns on the Cam OG that’s looking at the bulbs. The camera is already on, so the Automation essentially does nothing but create the log entry for me.
When one of the bulbs in the group turns off, the trigger turns on the same Cam OG (again really doing nothing practical except logging).This is a limited test. After a day or so, I’ll swap these out for some “v1” Bulb Colors that have consistently failed in the past and see if these behave differently than the Bulb Color v2s I’m currently testing. The only Plugs I have available—which have also failed Vacation Mode in the past—are the “v1” originals. I also have some Plug Outdoors that I occasionally use for indoor applications because I get 2-for-1 outlets, and I could test those, too.
Note for this initial test I have the two Bulb Color v2s together in a group, and I enabled Vacation Mode for the group, not for individual bulbs. I don’t know if that makes a difference (it’s what I’ve tried in the past that has failed), but that could be something else to test.
Thanks again, @peepeep, for the awesome suggestion to add Automations just to get log entries!
I opened a support ticket with Wyze and sent them the requested logs. I hope they fix this.
Since I set up a test and started logging this with Automations, this is what I’m seeing:
| Date | On Time | Off Time |
|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2025 | 20:32 | 20:51 |
| 21:37 | 22:05 | |
| 22:55 | 23:00 | |
| 8 June 2025 | 06:34 | 07:31 |
| 08:14 | 08:49 |
So far it’s working as described in the documentation, but that’s <24h and specifically with newer bulbs. I’ll do some more testing before planning to open a ticket.
Me, too. It was definitely broken the last time I left town and used it on older Bulb Colors. I’ll test some of those, too.
Edit: While Vacation Mode appears to be working for the Bulb Color v2s, it’s clearly failing for my older Plug and Bulb Colors:
| Date | Bulb On Time | Bulb Off TIme | Plug On Time | Plug Off Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-08 | 12:19[1] | |||
| 12:56 | 13:25 | |||
| 13:47 | ||||
| 13:48 | 13:56 | |||
| 14:31 | ||||
| 14:38 | 15:18 |
Clearly at least some of these devices are activating during daytime hours when they shouldn’t.
2025-06-09T18:25:34Z Edit: It’s still failing with older devices but not the Bulb Color v2s.
| Icon(s) | Meaning |
|---|---|
 |
Bulb Color (“v1”) |
 |
Bulb Color v2 |
 |
Plug (original “v1”) |
|
Plug Outdoor |
|
Vacation Mode |
|
On |
|
Off |
I added a Plug Outdoor to the testing today, and so far I’m doing all of my testing with Vacation Mode enabled for device groups. I mention that specifically because a Help Center article about Plug says that it has to be enabled on individual Plugs. An article about Bulb Color indicates that it’s also a per-bulb setting, but it doesn’t explicitly say that it won’t work with a light group, which is the way I’ve always tried to use it (and always seen failures). After testing with the groups for a few more days, I’ll switch to trying it on individual devices. Currently all of the test devices are in groups with Vacation Mode applied to the groups: Even the single Plug is in a group by itself with the mode enabled for the group and not the individual Plug. I want more data before I submit a log and open a new ticket.
I have no idea why this happened. I wasn’t in that room at the time and don’t have a camera in there, so I don’t know if the lights were actually on (they should’ve been off), but apparently an “off” signal was sent to or received by the trigger bulb. ↩︎
@peepeep, I don’t have any of those to test, but I do have Light Strip 
and Light Strip Pro 
that I could throw into the mix, as well as a Bulb Color (BR30) 
. 
I just hope that @sockofrog doesn’t mind my testing other things, because I’m going beyond the scope of the bulb-color tag. I’d really like to see this feature working consistently for all products that are supposed to support it.
@sockofrog, two questions:
I use Alexa to have my colour bulb come on/off when away. I have it set to come on 15 minutes before sunset and off at 1am.
