Wyze Smart Button

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Wall Mount “button” to trigger alert in Wyze App

I would love a simple and inexpensive button that can Mount to a wall or other surface that - when pressed - simply sends an alert to my Wyze App.

Ideally -

  • Add device to App
  • Name device (playroom, upstairs bathroom, etc…)

When button is pressed an alert says “Playroom button pressed”

That’s is. No video. No audio. Nothing fancy.

It could be a far better option than my kids standing at the top at the stairs yelling for me that they need a juice box.

But also could be useful for other non-emergency events. Someone needs toilet paper, someone can’t find their other shoe, or the dog is looking at her funny (these are all reasons someone has needed me in my house in the last 72 hours.

I am almost never without either my phone or watch - so an alert someone needs something at “X” would be super useful!

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Amazon made a button that does exactly that. It works with Alexa, so anything IoT works with it.

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:notes::notes:Anything Amazon can do…. Wyze can do better :notes::notes:

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I love the design of the new night lights. Could we get a similar Wyze button that charges via USB-C that’s easily moveable? I would use so many of these if they didn’t have to be installed in a light switch socket like the current button.

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I have a Wyze lock on my property door (outside 50 ft from the house).

I would love a physical button that I can have at home to open the lock.

Instead I have to:

  • find my phone, then find the app, open it, go to this lock, unlock the door.
    It’s way too long!
    A simple button in my house would be much faster and usable by anybody in the house
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I’m thinking of this button to trigger a door opening from a distance:

  • no need to open the app, go the deadlock and unlock
  • no need to go to the door and unlock if it’s far away
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I can’t believe WYZE hasn’t created this already!!!
I have literally posted WYSE door sensors several places in my house, (Using Cookie Jars) but they are not on doors; instead, I have to manually separate them/put them together to trigger things like turning on/off lights in areas where there is no light switch. I’ve also considered wiring in WYZE light switches to absolutely nothing - Just so I can program them to turn on/off lights that I cannot wire directly to the switch. - But REALLY need battery/rechargeable option instead!
This is definitely the second thing WYSE should have invented/released right after inventing/releasing the WYZE light bulbs.
No one wants to find their phone, then find the app, then find the specific control, just to quickly turn on/off lights.

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Fully agreed! To give a unique example, when I bought my house and had the general contractors replace my outlets and switches with newer ones, I explained that I would want to install a few Wyze Switches myself. Prior to them taking out the old hardware, I found one switch that didn’t seem to control anything (or at least the way they rewired the outlets, no longer controlled anything—I don’t remember). So they were going to buy a blank wall plate until I asked if the wiring could still provide power even though it wouldn’t go to any outlets; I ended up installing a Wyze Switch that I use to control Wyze Bulbs throughout the floor (single press turns on a pair of Wyze Bulbs in one corner, a double press turns on a Wyze Plug that has an old dumb lamp plugged into it, and a triple press turns of the Wyze Plug). Imagine this setup, but with a battery instead of hardwired. Mountable or portable—the possibilities are endless.

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This was asked about in the recent AMA and thought some of you would like an update:

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Since Wyze doesn’t plan on resuming this Smart Button project, I thought I would mention a good alternative for someone who wants something similar that will work with their current Wyze Ecosystem. I bought a bunch of these 3D print switches off of Etsy that you just clip your Wyze Contact sensor V2 into and then the little switch on it triggers it as open/closed or on/off. Then I can use them as portable smart switches:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1529008647/switch-bracket-for-wyze-sense-v2-contact

It looks like this after you put your Contact sensor on it:

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This is how it looks before you put your sensor on it:
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  • I use those in my bedroom, for example. The one by the main switch turns it on 100% brightness and down is off. Then I have some by my headboard that turns it to lower brightness (like 1%) and warmer lighting when I’m getting ready to go to bed at night.
  • I use those for my Wyze Floodlights, to turn the floodlights on and off when I want them to stay on or to turn off the ambient lighting.
  • I use those to turn my Air Purifiers up to Turbo speed (using Alexa Routine) or back down to Auto.
  • I use those to turn Wyze plugs on and off.
  • I use those in hallways and other places that require multiple switches. Because I can place these ANYWHERE without having to do new electrical wiring.

Now that Wyze says they have no plans to resume making a smart button, I figured some people would like an option to have something similar that would still work with their Wyze ecosystem. :+1: I like these little switch brackets and the seller is a great guy, my favorite Etsy seller! He’s very personable and does a great job. I highly recommend the seller (who is actually a forum member here), and this cool Switch Bracket that turns Contact sensors into becoming a useful switch.

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Thanks! I just ordered a couple to try

Thanks,
Joe

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This would be insanely helpful for us that use Wyze products at the home of elderly or disabled people in our lives.

Rules are fine, but their options can also get in the way on the various times you don’t need them. IE: your living room lights go to 5% at 8pm while sitting there with family and friends when they visit.

For older and disabled people manipulating or even remembering to use an app on their phone is not intrinsic or easy. Wait till you get old enough that your fingerprints are so wore down even ultrasonic readers cannot register them easily or be very successful if you can.

Unfortunately, we cannot all be five minutes away and even if we are, getting called at 4am because, “all my lights are doing weird things” is not fun and often times the result of the person trying to interact with that app and they do not have enough mental or physical agility to do so.

Everyone trusts the audio and tactile feedback of a physical button click, or switch. And it’s been programmed into everyone alive to use a light switch when entering or leaving a room. Same process.

The Wyze Action Button. Unbox it, hook it to the wifi and it then does nothing. You tell it what it does when pressed via Wyze rules that already exist (and hopefully are expanding more).

Press the button, the Wyze app fires off the Actions in your rule.

As noted, press the garage door button and the Wyze Action Button is a much simpler process and way more successful to reach the outcome of getting lights and things on for people with extra needs to see, feel secure, etc.

In the meantime, at least add a modern Android and iOS “soft” action button to run a rule set. A big well labeled button on a smart phone home screen would be a good start as well.

Wyze products are easy to use, but add loss of feelings in fingers, bad vision, tremor, any level of dementia or related, poor memory, or 100’s of other conditions, even when minor, just lowers the success rate of our loved ones in these scenarios to single digit percentages.

Just a simple, well made, button. Good solid mechanical click feeling and a good mechanical sound when pressed (not an audio recording through a tiny speaker). Add three color less, blue pairing, red error, green = button press achieved. The green light should also have a setting where it stays on until pressed again or just slowly dims away after 5 minutes.

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The 3D printed product from ideaxtruder on Etsy is very good. He’s also going to make a momentary contact version.

Thanks,
Joe

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I really feel like wise is dropping the ball by not providing this. Nobody wants to get out their phone and fumble with an app to turn the light switch on and off. Particularly if you have guests or children in the house - you don’t want to have to share out your lightbulbs to guests or give devices to children just to operate light switches.

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Surprised this hasn’t happened.

Maybe later since 2019.

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That’s not exactly accurate. Wyze actually moved this to In progress and announced that they would be launching this toward the end 2022 or so. Based on public comments in AMA’s, etc, they appeared to have one they had mostly developed and were apparently testing in house, but then they got a lot of push from people that they were spreading out too thin and moving away from their cameras core, so they took in the feedback and announced that they were going to go back to their roots for a while and cancel most of their other non-camera projects and focus on cameras for a while until they got “profitable”…so most of 2023 and most of this year have been dedicated to cameras, the app, and AI for their core until they got profitable. They were finally profitable for Quarter 1 2024. So it’s possible “fun” things like a smart button may come back again since they were already so far along in the R&D process for it when it got canceled at the end of 2022 due to listening to their users’ feedback to stop launching non-camera products.

I’m hoping they will go back to considering other things like this. I had to go buy a bunch of Aqara Smart buttons off AliExpress since Wyze canceled this project. I really wish they’d switch back to smart home in general instead of just cameras. At some point, a person has all the cameras they need and don’t need to buy more…but people can continue to expand their overall smart home. If all you have are cameras, but nothing else to tie rules/automations to, then the best smart home AI in the world is still crippled. As several of us told them here:

I hope they go back to expanding the smart home. I now have over 50 cameras, but I am a huge exception to the rule. Most of their customers don’t need more than a few cameras. Launching more and more cameras isn’t go to go far with existing customers at some point. If they want people to expand with them, they need to expand to offer more stuff so we can build a SMART HOME, not just a camera home. We want to automate our lighting, and lots of other stuff too. Smart buttons helps with this kind of stuff.

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True. I have a difficult time using 8. Upgraded a v3 to v4, then the v3 replaced a v2. The v2 is sitting idle. If nothing breaks, I may be done with camera shopping. :camera: :shopping:

Currently I have doubts about a couple of the other Wyze products and some things I really don’t need.

Luckily, I enjoyed a fun run.

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Responding to @WyzeJasonJ email on this item. This is not of any great interest to me as it would end up being proprietary communications protocol incompatible with other more robust and functional home automation systems. I’d sooner get a z-wave or zigbee button from Aliexpress.

Feedback Requested - 2/26/2026
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Anyone still interested in this, go make your voice heard:

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Yes I would still want this. My uses would be to turn on switches that are behind a piece of furniture or are far away. For example I have light switches that are in my shed and turn on outside lights on it. When I go out my backdoor it would be nice to have a switch to turn them on. Right now I have a camera that if it detects motion it will turn the lights on, but it doesnt always work. I also have switches on my fish tank it would be nice to have a button that I could active and turn off the switches.