Wyze Garage Door Controller - First Impression

No so unfortunately the device and camera needs to be pretty much directly connected at the opener itself. It might be able to jumper off the existing wall switch but I have not tried that yet.

I use a wyze contact sensor, painters tape, and gravity to accomplish the same thing as that $50 sensor.


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EXCELLENT Idea. Wow.
If you are interested in something a little more permanent, let me steer you to Etsy.
Here for example.

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I have many other Wyze products, and I want to like the Wyze GDC. But to get full camera coverage, functionality, and security for my garage, I would need THREE Wyze cams. Here’s why: My garage has 2 doors, so that’s two new GDC bundles/cams. My existing Wyze Cam Pan is mounted at the far end of the garage where it can see the ENTIRE garage interior. Mounted near the GDOs, the GDC cams will only see half of the garage interior, at best. I’m also using the Cam Pan’s bridge to connect to a v1 contact sensor on the exterior side door, and to connect a v1 motion detector. The garage doors currently have v1 sensors as well, but the Wyze GDC would make those unneeded/redundant. That feels like a lot of cams to run a single garage.

Thanks for posting… I went to go get that very same link and got lost at looking for 3D printers for myself :rofl:

Very welcome. Also, go to Thingiverse.com Dozens of pages of Wyze stuff. Some very clever. And even if you don’t 3D print yourself, you can reach out to these makers and the often will print and send to you for a token amount.

And there’s dozens of pages, hundreds of Wyze items on Etsy.com

If you have not visited and looked, you are depriving yourself of some very clever ideas.

@MasterYoda, since you are going to make your V1 sensors obsolete, here’s an idea for re-purposing them. This is the cleverest idea I have seen in using the V1 contact sensor.

I put the camera at the back of the garage, no point in only being able to see half your garage. Need to have a bigger qr code though so the camera can pick it up better.

Each controller needs its own camera, and its own door. The QR code is the same for every door.
The camera is doing the thinking, the controller is just s siren/light/relay/radio.

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Print it as big as you like at any kinkos.

R.Good, if you want a simple easy and inexpensive printer, look at the ender 3. Look for deals and you can get one for under $150.

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Thank You… Been eyeballing the Anker and thinking about getting in on the last little bit of crowd funding that is left.

Ah… I see. Could be an easy enhancement to have 3 controllers for 3 garage doors, each with a unique QR code, linked to one camera. Based on the QR code detected, camera can trigger the appropriate controllers. A camera for each door, looks like an overkill when you can view all 3 doors with one camera. I assume Wyze uses cameras so they dont have to code to all the different garage door systems to detect current state.

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Just got mine setup. I wanted to setup a trigger for the garage to open when I got home, but there is not trigger to open the garage just close it. Anyone figure this out?

Does not exist today, below are a couple of wishlist items requesting GDC open rules. Give them a vote.

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Sure there is a way to easily close it. You can use Alexa or Google commands, simply depending on what you want to call it. Here’s and easy hack to a cheap device. I’m not suggestion you remove your Wyze setup. You can add it in parallel to complement your Wyze.

I don’t seem to be able to save that or print that. Can you supply in a PDF format? Also, what QR format is that?

Thanks! :slight_smile:

It doesn’t work with this door opener, as it has a yellow learn button. Read the instructions.

I put the image over an excel page, made it the size of four sheets of paper and am going to try that

Convert a jpg to PDF? Sure. Here you go.
The format is Alphanumeric QR code. it says “wyze.com/g