Exactly, That is why I said it is up to everyone to decide what fits best for them, for you I would not recommend Wyze because you want self monitoring without a fee which is not an option with Wyze.
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For others who still want to use Wyze without a subscription, you can just use these the same way many of us did with the V1 sensors and still had our own “self-monitoring” security system. These V2’s can all be used the same way.
Create a shortcut rule that turns notifications on for all your sensors (including cams, etc) and maybe name it “Arm” and another shortcut that turns the notifications off for all your sensors (and cams and whatever else). and name it “Disarm”…now you can basically do it all yourself.
Now, when you leave the house or go to bed at night, you just click the “Arm” shortcut and it will turn on all the notifications, and you just “Disarm” when you wake up or return home. In fact, with the location trigger, a person can even automate it to do this when you leave or arrive home.
A person can even do rules to have a schedule where specific sensors will trigger a siren on specific cameras when they are triggered and set that up to be enabled on a specific schedule.
There are apps that will even make those notifications become a siren on your phone when they pop up on your phone so it will wake you up at night, etc if they are triggered when “armed”…
The way I see it, it’s really not that difficult to do “self-monitored” with Wyze for free without a subscription. 
You don’t get to use a keypad to do it, but you can do it all in the app and with WAY, WAY, WAY cheaper equipment…but that’s just me…I like to save money…and there are others who also do this with Wyze equipment, like WildBill said he does his own door and motion alerts to self-monitor without a subscription.
Wyze’s focus is on the pro monitoring, and here’s something worth considering with that…
The average Home Owner’s Insurance cost is $1,383 per year for a policy with $250K coverage (more with more coverage). When you consider that having Monitoring can get you as much as 20% off your Home Owner’s Insurance…that’s > $276/yr for something that costs just $99.99/yr…which means you’re actually getting PAID a net outcome of $176/yr to have Home Monitoring and all the benefits.
I don’t know about you, but that’s a complete NO-BRAINER for most people…just saying…in the end you get the HMS service basically for free plus paid an extra $176/yr on top of that just to get a bunch of extra features that you wouldn’t have by “self-monitoring”…you can get a bunch of extra free devices every single year with all that extra money. In that sense, the professional monitoring is actually CHEAPER than the “Free self-monitoring” anyway.
If you own a home and have Home Owners’ Insurance, the HMS subscription is definitely something you should highly, highly consider…
I’m just sayin… you might not ACTUALLY be paying for it, but instead getting paid for it. Hard to get cheaper than that.
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Unfortunately, that didn’t work for me. No discount. Zilch. Nada.
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Perhaps now would be a good time to review the original reasoning for this. Paramount of which is full monitor/sensor functionality without the automatic call to Noonlight.
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OK
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I just found this out and actually couldn’t believe the tech support when they said that this system will only work if I pay for monitoring. My first year free monitoring is up and now if I don’t pay for monitoring, my system is garbage, and the keypad will not work. It doesn’t make sense. I need to pay $120 per year, even if I just want a self monitored alarm. I don’t want monitoring, just the alarm system. I know I can jump through hoops and program the thing to almost work, but I can’t get keypad functionality and I need that.
They really should implement self monitoring mode, but then they make no recurring money. I thought WYZE wasn’t that type of company, but maybe as they get bigger they have decided they should be. At least full disclosure on the packaging saying monitoring is required would be more honest. I like WYZE products but this seems like a pretty bad deal. I am sorry I bought it in the first place.
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Yes, it’s been quite a while now since customers (like me) have asked for this. I have held my breath long enough and I am about to turn blue. Can someone at Wyze chime in if this much requested feature for self monitoring will ever happen?
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Oh, and if not please bring back the old style sensors for purchase.
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I agree with the self monitoring aspect. My family member is in a location that is not controlled by local law enforcement or local fire. If a monitoring company calls the fees are through the roof for someone to show up as the monitoring dispatcher is not onsite. I have friends that are local that can deal with the issue and make the call as they are on site but I need a notification of what is going on. I have a Ring system at my home and have no issues with self monitoring with their system and I have had it for several years. It has taken months of calls to Wyze tech support to even get the answer of self monitoring is not offered by Wyze. It is time to place you focus on making great products in a particular product line and not produce a scale, a watch, a vacuum ect. Just my 2 cents…
Not going to happen. The sensors brick with a low battery and there is no way to bring them back to life. You can do everything with the V2 sensors you could do with the V1s as far as alerts and automation. The V1s do not work with HMS other than they can connect to the hub.
If you don’t have a subscription to Noonlight, then who would the panic alarm be sent to? Perhaps an emergency contact of your choice?
Right now, it won’t go to anybody if you don’t have the professional monitoring active, but what you said is a great suggestion for our requests for a self monitoring mode. It would be awesome if the panic button could send a message to anyone who is listed as an emergency contact. That’s a great idea.
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Two years later and this is never going to happen. I’m sure they’re aiming for matter.
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If you truly want a self-monitored solution, Wyze isn’t the answer. I’ve said this multiple times and I’m sure Wyze isn’t happy that I do, but YoLink provides everything you need for self monitoring: door/window sensors, motion sensors, temperature sensors, leak sensors, alarms, sirens, water shutoff valves, and soon cameras. It all works, without a subscription and only one network connection is needed for the hub. All sensors connect to the hub using LoRa technology, providing access to sensors up to 1/4 mile from the hub. They can alert you via in app notifications, email or SMS and via voice announcements on their speaker hub. Wyze has a lot of work to do if they want to catch up. Or they can continue selling the next BIG product.
Addendum: Forgot to mention they have outdoor motion and contact sensors, vibration/glass break sensors, garage door openers and sensors, thermostats, door locks and smoke/CO detectors as well.
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Good luck with that. Wyze just isn’t moving on any self monitoring mode and is way behind on real products for home safety and security.
To be honest, Wyze has made it so that “Testing mode” works pretty well for “Self Monitoring” anyway.
That’s pretty much how I use it. I get all the features and don’t have to worry about Noonlight calling the cops when I don’t want them to.
I saw recently that other companies like Ring are getting rid of their “Free self-monitoring” options too. It would be nice if Wyze added a few other features to this for when we’re in Test mode, but it does work reasonably well that way.
As for doing it all free, it still works just as well or better than the original Wyze sense v1 did. We can still setup our own security with rules/routines. Some people do pretty advanced configurations using IFTTT or Home Assistant (by means of virtual switches), all without a subscription.
Wyze has said they will potentially consider Home Assistant integration at a later date (compared to a “Probably not” status for most other integrations. But certainly not something that will happen this year.
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This is not the way.
Do you need a subscription to use test mode? I had a 30 day subscription when I bought the hub, but after the 30 days there’s no way to enter test mode.
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Yes, test mode requires a paid subscription.
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Well that’s disappointing, what’s the point then?