It is hardwired as is the V1, waiting till they come up with a non-hardwired version since I currently have no wired doorbell capability but using a battery powered one currently. Hopefully with V3?
Can you explain how to have it announce through Google Home? My Doorbell 2 doesn’t show up as a ‘starter’ in Google Home so I can’t set up Automation to use it as a trigger to send announcements to my Google Home speakers.
Is there plans to fix the integration with Google home so doorbell press is a starter action?
Also the chime module (properly wired, removed and rewired it again to be sure) doesn’t trigger my existing chime bells. Doesn’t matter if in the wyze app I set the chime to mechanical or digital.
Right now I have a great shiny new doorbell with a wonderful camera on it… But no way of alerting those in the house that somebody has hit the button (other than the wyze app notifications on phones).
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My experience right now is I can’t get it to make my old dumb doorbell chimes make noise 
The camera works, app notifications trigger when the button is pressed, usual camera events are triggered… Once I can get the chime working and integrate with Google home to make an announcement that somebody has pressed the button it’ll be great… Hopefully.
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Wyze Doorbell V2 is a great upgrade!
Installed it at my mothers home 2 days ago works great, Sensing motion faster than V1 nice elite design working with home Chime is a big plus Sd card is an amazing upgrade,
I had a hard time installing the chime controller, the app gives very clear instructions if you have had a plain doorbell installed until now, But since my mother has had the Wyze V1 till now i couldn’t figure which wire is front wire and which is going to transformer, Thanks god i recalled i took a picture before installing the V1 i quickly looked up the install date of the V1 in the Wyze app and found on my phone the picture of original configuration taken that day
I am just wondering why the app only gives option of mechanical chime or digital Why not give an option of ringing also to the app??
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Does it not have the ability to send a Push Notification to the phone when the Device Notifications are enabled and the bell is pressed?
Does the VIOP setting in the App not initiate a Phone Call to the phone when it is enabled?
Nope. You can reuse one (top or bottom) but you’ll need yet another hole in the wall.
Wyze still needs to properly set visitor alerts in google home. At the VERY LEAST the doorbell button press should be a Google Home automation ‘starter’ to allow us to build our own notifications.
In addition to the solution posted with wyze smart plugs, I did something similar with a v2 camera.
The problem here is the ‘starter’ options in Google Home are limited from Wyze devices. One thing they can trigger on is when a camera turns on or off or a wifi outlet turns on or off. The previous solution looked at outlets, here’s how cameras work.
You’ll need a spare wyze camera you’re not using, luckily I had some v2’s sitting around. Plug in and set up a spare v2, mine is in a closet pointing at the wall.
In Wyze app, create a rule that triggers when the Doorbell button is pressed. IF doorbell is pressed DO turn on your spare camera.
I’m Google Home, set up automation with the starter being that spare camera turning On, the resulting actions can be anything from broadcasting to Google home speakers, playing music, turning on lights, whatever you want.
Our issue here though is you need that spare camera to turn off now as it is acting as our switch for Google home. Google home cannot turn off a camera, wyze doesn’t expose this function. Wyze rules are the only things that can do this… So…
What I did is make a rule for every one of my wyze cameras (I have a half dozen or so). If any one of them detects motion, including the doorbell, all my outdoor cameras, and my indoor cameras, the resulting action is to turn OFF the spare camera. So these activities are triggering all the time to turn off the spare camera, only the doorbell press will turn on the spare camera.
An alternate I thought of… When Google home triggers the doorbell announcement, you could also turn on a wifi outlet/plug near to where the spare camera is plugged in, that does something that will guarantee motion is detected on the camera. Turn on an oscillating fan, a tv, any sort of movement that the camera would alert based on. You could set up another Google home automation that watches for the spare camera turning off and then also turn off this outlet so whatever you enable turns off. It’s a very roundabout solution for the fact that wyze isn’t exposing the doorbell press as a starter.
After doing all this, there’s a 5 to 10 second delay from the time the doorbell is pressed to when Google will kick off the automation.
Re the comment: If it makes you feel any better, remember that Wyze has a pretty good 30-day money-back guarantee, so there is little risk anyway.
I recently bought cameras directly from Wyze with a paid invoice of $64.50 I returned them the day after they were delivered, unopened, My “refund” from Wyze was a mere $48.72 For me, that’s not so good.
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the improvements are marginal and some features reduction like chime…
This is not like cam v1 to v2 to v3
Super weird decision from product team
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@kithytom, I have been holding off deciding if I want to do a V1 to V2 upgrade and reading the feedback before I decide. Can you provide some more specific details about what you experienced?
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Bought the Doorbell v2 the day it was released to replace a Google Hello doorbell. Surprisingly comparable products, with the v2 an actual improvement in some features, like video quality/resolution. What I didn’t expect, was how bad the doorbell notifications would be. On the phone, it doesn’t ring through the app, like Google. It can pop up a useless notification or can call the phone using VoIP, which takes a total of about 10 secs to receive/answer/connect/load video before you can actually see/respond. Not great.
Even more baffling is the Google Hub integration. There is none! The Doorbell v2 is not a device that can be selected for a Starter trigger!? Why this is so baffling is that I made sure I could use the Google Hub as a chime before buying the v2. In the Q&A, I read: Q: “Is Wyze Video Doorbell v2 compatible with Alexa and Google Home?” A: “Yes! Use your smart speakers as doorbell chimes, and also view live video feeds of people at the door on your Echo Show and Google Home devices.” So how do you do that natively, without the spare Wyze device workaround mentioned here? Very disappointed with the apparent dishonesty in that Q&A response, enough so to bump multiple stars off my review. Any idea if actual Google Home integration will be added in the future?
Aside from the lack of Google integration and the inadequate phone notifications/VoIP, it’s a really great device. Any idea if a non-VoIP interactive doorbell ringer will be built into the Wyze app in the future, like the Google Hello has?
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I sure hope they fix the Google integration soon. Looks like it has been a persistent issue since the v1 though.
Like most situations when we’re expecting a company to honor their advertised promises, it won’t be a priority for them unless they know its a priority for their users. I suggest you regularly open support tickets, participate in the relevant ‘Wishlist’ threads, and submit logs from in the app indicating the issue.
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Also just found out that The Doorbell v2 isn’t supported in Wyze Live Web View… which is the leading reason why I pay for Cam Plus. You can’t watch the camera live, but you can look at Events… but the Events only show about the top half of the video. Did that delivery guy leave a package? Who knows… can’t tell from the Web View.
EDIT: Turns out Web View is just a mess… if I take the browser out of full screen and change the window size to match the aspect ratio of the doorbell cam, then i can see the full video clip. It doesn’t properly fit the window when full screen.
Wyze has lost a bunch of points with me this weekend… hoping they fix up this rushed launch soon.
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I am experiencing the same thing. I have no way to know when someone rings the bell and haloween is in 2 days…
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To address some things being said here… I came from Doorbell Pro. I had V1 Doorbell but the Pro was SOO much better. The V2 is definitely a better Doorbell than the V1 and better than the Pro on a couple points (SD Card, and a couple other small things)… The chime is a letdown but I detail how Alexa is a good alternative and could scale much better in a house. TLDR: Good doorbell, I am switching over and using my Pro Doorbell as another battery camera to monitor my cat with.
- The Doorbell v2 works with Google Home, i.e. you can see video on the phone and on the Nest. You can not use it for a trigger. But you can’t use any Wyze doorbell with Google as a Trigger. or Door / Motion Sensors. Google is NOT your solution if you want to get creative with Wyze. The best solution is to create a Hybrid automation Rule set with MOSTLY Wyze and Alexa to fill in the gaps. I am a Google person and wish it would intergrate as well as Alexa, it doesn’t. That’s all I have to say about that.
- Doorbell works awesome in Alexa, you can use it as a trigger and see video.
- The Mic and Camera are great. I prefer the field of view from the Pro but that’s just a minor hit.
- Live view is unsupported. It was unsupported with the Doorbell Pro too.
- When someone rings the doorbell, I was able to answer the call and talk with the door very quickly. Voice is clear and loud at the doorbell, I could hear the door mic very well.
- Notifications and automations are the same. I do like the change of the Notification/Recording page (picture attached).
- There is a audible warning to tell people they are being recorded if you want. (picture attached).
- I was NOT able to use the doorbell to make my legacy mechanical doorbell ring. I went so far as to put my old doorbell back on, wire it back to default, ring it… and then go through the whole thing again. Still won’t ring. I’m probably missing something dumb.
- I liked the Doorbell Pro custom plug in doorbell with varied sounds. But Alexa is now the doorbell, She has a pretty cool list of doorbell sounds for this. I even tell her to turn up the speaker before ringing, then turn the speaker down after ringing.
- I don’t have an SD Card in it yet but I will say that an ALWAYS recording doorbell is a +1 for sure. That would be the biggest technical selling point of the Doorbell. That and the camera is better than the Pro. Much cleaner picture.
Bottomline… this thing is $40, has a dope camera, records all the time, and can use Alexa as a whole house doorbell if you want. Sure, no bluetooth doorbell but that had limits to how many you can put in a house and the reach. Alexa can to the furthest corner of your house or property. I did have an issue getting my old doorbell working. Not sure if that’s a hit against Wyze, the voltage on my doorbell isn’t right, or I’m a dufus. Overall. I call it a 1.5 version to the Pro. and a 2.0 version to the original V1. $40 as compared to the Pro which is $94, is what makes this the better doorbell at the end of the day. Value for $$$. It’s better where it counts.
1 last Edit… I didn’t compare to the V1 Doorbell because I went through 2 of them and thought the mic/speaker was terrible. Just a bad doorbell. Your mileage may have varied on the V1 doorbell but I don’t consider it in the conversation because it’s old tech at this point. #SoooYesterday
Last Last Edit… I just read the thread about the NIGHTMARE that is the chime not working for the doorbell. -1 for Wyze here but I’m going to trade out my doorbell transformer for a new one to see what happens to make my old mechanical chime ring. BTW, this issue with the chime is printed on Eufy and Ring Doorbell boxes…
Here’s a good video for changing out your transformer. $17 from Amazon.
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Yes. I replaced a dumb db button. Clearly not ready for prime time.
Sadly, the Wyze v2 isn’t working with my mechanical chime and Google Home integration isn’t working.
Chime: transformer meets the specs listed as required. Mine is 16v, 10VA.
Google Home: my Wyze cams (v1) load and display readily in GH on my Google Pixel phone. Not the Doorbell v2. Doorbell cam works as advertised and expected in the Wyze App. Total no go with GH. Likewise, integration not working with the Google/Nest hub. Wyze v1 cameras display fine. Doorbell v2 won’t display at all.
I have tickets open with support. Thus far, they indicate that many v2 users are experiencing the same issues and they’re working on it. I can wait and hope, or, they’ve given me the option to return. I’m giving them a week or two before I pull the trigger on return.
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They don’t make them for this unit yet. Unless they recently just did please link the options for the anti-theft crowd.
Having read thru all items in this thread, I do not see this question/comment: can a single controller be wired to operate front and rear chimes in a mechanical chime box or are separate controllers needed for each chime? Transformer is 24V 40VA AC power.
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Following as I would like to do the same. Original configuration was standard doorbells front and back running to a common mechanical chime. Replaced those with V1 doorbells with electronic chimes. Now planning V2 doorbells and repurposing mechanical chime for both front and back, so I am hoping this is an approved configuration.
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Except mine. Replaced doorbell and transformer. Still the chime remote does not activate my bell. It worked with my Ring doorbell just fine.