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.