Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m suggesting. If you can substitute one out for the other (Kasa for Wyze) so that you’re using the Wyze Plug for an automation and don’t care if it’s temporarily on or off (it doesn’t matter which; the important thing is that Google Home sees the change from one state to the other and that you can use a Wyze device [i.e., camera] to change the state of the Plug; you can’t do that directly if it’s a Kasa plug), then I’d definitely try that.
I don’t have any experience with Fire TV Stick, so I don’t know if that integrates with Google Home (I’d imagine not, since Google and Amazon generally don’t play well together), but if you can get automations set up to show your cameras on your Echo Show, then I would guess it might be possible to do this with your Fire TV Stick, as well. I really don’t know, though.
In my home, I have that first Google Home Routine (#2 above) set to stream the doorbell camera to three different devices when it executes: a Google Home Hub, a Google TV, and a Chromecast plugged into a different TV. After one minute, the second Wyze Automation (#3) triggers the second Google Home Routine (#4) to turn off the stream on each of these three devices. Nothing happens immediately (there’s some lag), but this means that if I’m near any of these three devices I can see a stream from the front porch within several seconds of someone pressing the doorbell button.
So here’s my problem and the only solution may be to get another Wyze plug which is no big deal. If I have both my front door OG I think and Deck V3 triggering the same Wyze plug how would Google home know which camera was triggered, which to turn on, and which to announce. Correct??? My thought is to have a separate Wyze plug for for each camera or can you think of a way to differentiate the two??
Yeah, that’s right. I’m not immediately coming up with a way to do it with what you’ve described in your setup so far. I think the easiest way (maybe the only way) is a separate Wyze Plug (or separate socket if you’re using a Plug Outdoor) as a trigger to initiate each different Google Home announcement/streaming Routine.
I have a Wyze Outdoor Plug but I’ve never taken it out of the box. I have quite a bit of this automation stuff I’ve just never figured out how to use them. So can you explain how using the Wyze Plug Outdoor would work?? Are you saying I could use each socket as the trigger instead of using 2 actual Wyze Plugs??
Ok so I bought an Echo 8 no idea what edition for $15 yesterday. I can get the automation is to complete as I want it to kind of 1) Alexa does not announce Person at Front Door 2) Alexa does not show me Front Door Cam however like you that Person Lights is a Kasa plug that use to control the color of my lights for 3 minutes during the automation. What am I doing wrong in the automation set up??
You might need to install the Wyze Alexa skill by going to Alexa app and select More > Skill & Games > search “Wyze”
Did you install and enable the Wyze skill in the Alexa app?
Add the word “Cam” to the your cameras and make sure you use exact names when you ask Alexa for custom commands. For example, your camera name is “Front Door Cam” so you would ask Alexa “Show me Front Door Cam”. You should be seeing your Front Door Cam on your Bedroom Display.
Use wait command between announcement and show me front door cam. The wait command is all the way at the bottom with a minimal interval of 5 seconds. You can also replace asking Alexa with actual wait commands.
I was finally able to figure out the automation with the Echo Show 8 for the V3 and OG, I haven’t tried the V4 yet but I read that I’m supposed to be able to view the outdoor V1 but I can’t, it says the camera isn’t responding.
Yes, Bedroom Display is the name for my Google Home and Echo Show 8.
Do you know if I can the same routines to show in both my Google home and Echo Show 8 at the same time? I bought more Wyze Plugs to have one for each camera to complete the automation.
Hate to bump a old threat but anyone find a way to get this to work with v4 cameras? Tried all the items in this thread and it refuses to load my google nest hub 2.
I suspect something has gone goofy on Google’s end with this one. I’ve had my Video Doorbell v2 disconnected for a while, but I just tried to set up a Wyze Automation (using a Cam v4’s Motion Detected event to trigger a Plug) and a Google Home Household Routine (using the Plug turning on as the Starter), and I currently can’t get it to work. In the Google Home Routine’s Actions section, I’ve used the “Custom command” option and have tried things like…
Stream {my camera’s name}
Show {my camera’s name}
Show {my camera’s name} on {my Hub’s name}
…and I have the Hub selected as the “Play on” device in the Configuration section. It’s just not working.
I can talk to Google Assistant on that device and say, “Stream {my camera’s name},” and the camera streams when I do that, so things like that work, but the Automation isn’t getting it done for me.
You’re welcome, and I share the frustration. If I had a better answer or knew of an easy way to make this work right now, then I’d share it.
My other thought is to try scripting it in Google Home for web, but I haven’t spent enough time with that to know how to use it effectively, how well it’s working, or even if it’s possible to accomplish something like this beyond the current limitations of the app.
So can you explain how using the Wyze Plug Outdoor would work?? Are you saying I could use each socket as the trigger instead of using 2 actual Wyze Plugs??
