Can Wyze take accountability for extremely delayed notifications?

Motion alerts from the camera are not immediate. They occur only after the video is uploaded. In practice, that usually means around 15-20 seconds after the motion began. If you need more immediate alerts, you can get the Wyze Sense kit and use the motion detector included with that.

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I don’t know if this thread is still active but I’ll post anyway.

This is the important part that people here are missing: “Wyze alerts mostly only work once you manually open the screen or if you are already using the phone.” It’s not necessarily an issue with camera notifications, but also motion sensors. For example, there was motion on my porch at 5:06 this morning. I didn’t get the notification until I picked up my phone an hour later, which apparently woke it up in some sense. This happens a lot.

I have a Google Pixel 4 running Android 10. Battery optimization for the Wyze app is turned off and I allow it to use data and battery in the background.

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I also have a Pixel 4 and am experiencing the same issue you are indicating. I found the following video of a potential hack or process to assist in notifications as it is believed to be related to the Doze options, which Pixel removed from the settings area. The Video is here: 2019 FIX Android Delayed Notifications when phone is idle (NO root needed!) - YouTube

I opened a ticket with Wyze and provided some other pieces of information as others have worked around this issue. As a side note: my iPhone does not experience any delays. It is only on the Android phone and when it is locked/idle for a period of time while not on a charger.

If on a charger or being used (Unlocked), I seem to get the notifications quickly.

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Thanks for the tip. I had battery optimization turned off for the Wyze app already, with no apparent effect on delayed notifications. My understanding, which could be wrong, is that battery optimization is effectively Android’s Doze mode. Now I’m going to turn off Adaptive Battery as well and see if that makes a difference. I’ll also test the notifications when the phone is on a charger. I hadn’t though of that.

I looks like the hack you referenced turns off Doze mode but it has to be reapplied after every reboot. And it’s a program for Windows, which I don’t use.

Thanks for contacting Wyze about this!

Yea - that is the downside. the Doze mode on the Pixel is a little different than battery optimization. Some other Android devices actually has a setting for it, I think it is called Keep Awake, Not sure of the name though. Hopefully it will get resolved. My phone is sitting on a charger and getting alerts as expected. My iPhone works no matter what, but I switched from iPhone to the Pixel - I like the device. I am considering getting a battery case to see if that will simulate it being on a charger and hence the notifications will still work.

I have an Arlo and Eufy cams, but am planning on switching to the Wyze External Cams when they come out. Hopefully it will be corrected by then. The Arlo and Eufy tends to work, not sure of the exact differences, I even compared the settings of the app, and they are the same.

Do sms messages wake your phone up immediately? If so there is sort of a workaround using IFTTT to text your phone when there is a wyze notification:

Thanks again. My wife has an iPhone and gets the Wyze notifications right away, like you said. Oh well.

Yes - SMS seems to work fine. That is a good suggestion using IFTTT, but would like to use wyze as it is supposed to be. :).

I will try IFTTT and Alexa to see what happens

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Funny you should suggest this, as I tried it over the weekend; i.e., using IFTTT to send an SMS when a motion sensor or contact sensor is triggered. I quick test showed that it does work. The disadvantages are that (1) I can’t take advantage of Wyze’s “rules” to only send notifications during certain hours, and (2) it’s the same alert sound as for all other SMS messages, of course. Neither of those are deal-breakers. I just wish the Wyze notifications worked correctly! Regarding the alert sound, I see that I could create an IFTTT applet to make a sound on the phone (like play a song) rather than send an SMS message, but I didn’t investigate it further.

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Just tried Alexa, same issue with the notifications - so its a no go for me.

However, I seem to be getting alerts about every 5 minutes when the Phone is idle / locked. still not ideal when the iPhone is almost immediate. Unlocked or awake, the Pixel Phone is on par with the iPhone if not bettter

I am testing the Beta App to see if it makes a difference, I informed Wyze that it did not seem to make a bug difference, still no alerts when locked. Or at least the alerts are about 5 minutes apart. A few times it took no longer than 10 minutes… but that was not the norm

I used IFTTTT to send a text message (SMS) to my phone. I did the test first thing in the morning before touching my phone. I had my wife open a door that has a contact sensor while I sat by the phone. I waited and waited. No Wyze notification or IFTTT text message until I picked up the phone. Very strange.

Interesting, I normally get my Text Messages. I did do a couple of setting s on the Pixel, may make a little difference:

  1. Made sure the Wyze app Battery Optimization is set to Not Optimized
  2. Adaptive Notifications, Set that to None
  3. Unrestricted Data allowed for the Wyze app
  4. WiFi control set to Allowed for the Wyze App

Then I enabled Developer Mode on the Phone. Checked the Standby App setting and noticed that it indicated that the Wyze App was exempted. This is supposed to mean that the Sleep / Doze should not affect the app because of the Exempt Indicator and the item 1 above.

But my alerts have gone from about an hour or so to roughly 5 minutes. Still not what I exepct. but better.

I may also try the IFTTT and ADB command (But hesitant to do the ADB command)

Oh Yea - the other thing I did was install the Beta to see if that helped. the Wyze Support sent me the link

Thanks, I’ll give those a try.

Let me know if you experience anything different. I also start the Wyze App and let it run in the background – Figured it couldn’t hurt… :slight_smile:

If you don’t get the same results, then maybe it is the Beta App. Curious if you experience the same thing.

I will keep you updated as I test things. IFTTT didn’t work for me as it requires the IFTTT app in order for the SMS to work. so maybe it is having the same issues - or maybe I did something wrong. I will work on it more tomorrow. like sending an email to the SMS Queue. I use Verizon Wireless so to send am Email to Text is PhoneNumber@vtext.com

Will let you know how that goes.

Heh Jeddkey - I am still trying to find something which would allow the Pixels notifications to work as expected. I have decided to try the ADB command, and will today. I will let you know how it goes.

However, I remember you mentioning that you don’t use a Windows computer. I found this link which allows the ADB process to be installed on Windows, Mac, and Linux. In case you wanted to try. https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/

Not sure what the battery drain will be or if it will work. I am hoping this will get corrected sooner than later.

Thanks for the tip. I probably won’t go that route. Too much trouble. I’ve tried everything else but no luck. I contacted Wyze support. After some discussion the response was, "I understand this is a known issue for the current app version but this is an isolated issue, meaning not all android users are getting the same issue. Rest assured that this will be resolved in the coming updates. We recognize that this experience fell short of your expectations…”

I had porch motion (motion sensor) around 5:00 this morning. Got the Wyze notification 45 minutes later. Yeah, that’s useful.

I give up, at least for now.

Yea, I know what you are saying. Since I have 2 phones and it is only set until a reboot, I figured why not. :).

I am testing the beta version which has some nice features.

But the notification is still an issue. I have gotten it down to less than 10 minutes. Only 1 occurrence yesterday where I got notified 36 minutes later.

Good luck.

So I tested the ADB Shell Command process. As indicated, I am getting all alerts / notifications - quickly and no delays. so this appears to be a fix for delayed notifications for now. I am going to see how the battery life is now that I ran the ADB command

Hopefully Android will fix this soon, or maybe Wyze can change how the lert is processed to be similar to Arlo.

That’s good news! I’ll let you keep experimenting and see if your good fortune continues. If so, then I’ll try ADB. Please keep me posted.