It would be nice if we have the option to disable the motion sensor in the app, and not have the thermostat light up every time someone passes it.
I could see how this would be useful, some clear or black tape would disable the sensor and blend well with the thermostat. There should definitely be a âproperâ way to disable the sensor though.
Also, donât forget to vote for your own #wishlist!
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Agree. Mine is wired in the bedroom next to my bed. Every time I get up at night it lights up and bothers my wife.
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Thatâs what I did. Placed a piece of electrical tape on top of the sensor.
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Itâs a workaround but I then lose the motion sensor for Auto Switch. Iâd prefer to keep that feature since thatâs partly what separates it as a smart thermostat from my old programmable thermostat.
â Your Wyze Thermostat also has a built in motion sensor. When this sensor detects movement in front of the thermostat while the status is Away, it will automatically switch to Home.â
Even better would be if it would auto light up during the day. Just not at night.
I am the opposite, I find the sensor is very unreliable and about 70% of the time, I have to turn the knob to get the screen to turn on. I find this very frustrating when I just want to quick look at the temp.
As of the last thermostat firmware update (1.1.8) the motion sensor no longer triggers a change in state from Away to Home.
The reason given is there were too many complaints of false triggers.
While I see no complaints on this forum of this problem, Iâm told in order to gain back this functionality it must be put on this whishlist forum.
Yes, rather than tell those complaining about false triggers to not use Away, instead they killed the functionality for everyone.
So here it is:
I desire the ability to change the state from Away to Home using the motion sensor on the thermostat.
There are multiple ways this can be done so as to not trip folks up:
Create a thermostat motion trigger for Rules on the App
Restore the old functionality
Additionally, I request the scheduling to also be fixed.
As of the current App you can NOT do multiple Away schedule in a row.
There should be either the ability for multiple Away schedules in a row
OR
part of the trigger rule: IF in Away AND motion detected THEN set to Home for XX minutes
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Please add a user selectable option to either enable or disable the motion sensor triggering of the state of the thermostat. The user can then decide if this is a feature they want to use or not.
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I donât mind it lighting up when I walk by, but it would be nice to turn that off for those who donât want it. What I want is the option for motion in front of the thermostat or on any of the motion sensors connected to the thermostat (the new 3in1 sensors coming out soon) to automatically set the T-stat status back to Home. The T-stat used to this, now that option has been revoked. Please bring that function back and set it as an optional setting. Give a disclaimer when itâs selected if you need toâŚby all means even use a pop up that tells people that some people may get false detections and if so, they should just disable this feature and stick with the GPS option or something instead.
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Please re-enable motion detection to change state from away to home state. User selectable option in settings to enable or disable this feature would be great.
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It is crucial to keep the sensor based Away to Home, Home to Away switch. I use the WYZE thermostat in an AirBnB unit and I canât force guests to use phonce geofencing.
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This is yet another perfect example of the use of the function WYZE has disabled.
I just donât get it.
Add to this, my interim process is to use people detect on a few outside camerasâŚthis doesnât work well at all.
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Please re-enable the features we bought the device for.
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I have 5 zones of hot water heat. Three zones are mostly in âawayâ (two in the basement, spare bedroom), Geofencing by cell is not a solution. I donât need to turn on 5 zones of heat when I get home, I have a schedule for that.
Motion control is great for my application - when someone enters the area, the switch to âhome tempâ does the job. This feature (now removed) was one of the reasons I went with Wyze. It canât be that hard to create a âmotion doesnât turn on displayâ toggle for those that donât want to put a piece of tape over the motion sensor and restore the âmotion switches to homeâ function.
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Another thing I donât get is, I just didnât see many (any) complaints about this in the forums, yet this functionality was yanked without warning anyone.
I would have neverâŚNEVER updated the firmware had I know this would be removed.
Still, adding this super useful functionality back seems to be taking an act of congress.
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Same issue with our Airbnb. And now you canât create a schedule for just specific days (like Sun-Thurs at checkout)
Frustrating they yank features on a whim, while parts of the app still suggest itâs still supported but indeed no longer works.
I would also like to disable the motion sensor. We have the Wyze thermostat in our store. It works great and we really like it but the motion sensor activation is a distraction for our customers
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What is distracting to your customers?
Weâd rather talk to our customers about our store and what we sell than the thermostat that lights up when they walk near it
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I get that, I just never saw it as distracting, or attention getting.
They have removed almost all the motion sensing usefulness from the device.
Iâd rather they had just added the ability to disable the motion sensor.
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