I have a Wyze camera with Cam Plus. I can get it to make Alexa announce “Person Detected” when the camera detects a person, But it won’t make Alexa announce when a pet is detected. Is there some setting I am not seeing to make this happen?
I was going through the Alexa App. It looks like only Person will trigger Alexa. you may be able to use IFTTT, but not sure on this.
The Wyze Alexa skill only has Person Detection capability. Pet, Vehicle and Package notifications via Alexa are not yet available. I do get push notifications to my phone for these detections (if set in the Wyze app) but no voice announcements via Alexa.
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I agree William. It would be nice if the folks at Wyze could augment the functionality of their Alexa skill to enable pet detection notifications through the Amazon Echo devices. An alert from Alexa (triggered by Wyze) when the dog is at the door waiting to come in would be a cool feature.
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I also agree, this is an important feature. If I look this feature on other camera, I’m gonna say goodbye to all my wyze cams.
Agreed! My driveway is on the side of my house, out of view from my front window. So it’d be nice if I could get a notification for Amazon cars and visitors without notifications of my kid playing in the driveway.
Wyze, please enable Alexa to announce when a pet is detected!
Totally agree. 2 years later this uncionality is still pending. PLease its necessary to improve the skills between wyze and alexa to be able not just to detect persons, but all wyze cams capabilities.
Thanks!!
I wouls also agree it was a feature i had with ring but miss with wyze. I am asking and so is my cat. Thanks in advance.
While waiting for this feature to be enabled, You could setup a Wyze Color Light to, for example Flash Green, then Stay on Green for 1 Minute, when a specific Camera detects a Pet. (Or in my case, my Pets are: Coyotes, Raccoons, Mice, Rats, Possum, Bobcats, Birds, Lizards and Rabbits, etc.)
In my case, the rule to trigger a light to flash and stay on for a minute is preferable, or Alexa would be Alerting way to many times with my multiple cameras setup outside to see all my “Pets”
Dear Wyze team.
Skills with Alexa still quite basic after 3 years. Wyze Cam fans (as me) are loosing a lot of opportunities to improve home control just because integration with Alexa is limited to Person detection. Please!, one skill improvement is not so much right? THANKS
This is far more than just an issue with pet detection – the integration should support ALL tags on events as triggers.
If implemented properly, there shouldn’t be any need to go in and update things as new tags are added.
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2025 …and this feature is still lacking/missing
Continuing the discussion from Will pet detections announce on Alexa:
I used to get vehicle and pet detection, but I’ve noticed that probably since the first of the year Pet and vehicle detection are no longer available with Alexa.
I am wondering if they limited the services integrated with all of their other similar product offers or just with Wyze?
Vehicle detection was very helpful to announce visitors prior to the ringing the doorbell or getting out of the car, it was especially helpful when a delivery truck approached the house before a package was sighted.
Is this something that Wyze pays extra for and is in its agreement with Alexa to Amazon or is it just a reduction in offered services across the board?