Doorbell chime as motion notification

[carverofchoice]

With a little creativity, you can already do that with Google and Alexa speakers. Mine do it right now.

But I agree that Wyze should have it built in to be able to do it on the Wyze Chime speaker or another camera.

[Aidinb]

care to elaborate on that creativity? i’ve got a few google automations in place already, but can’t use automation as a trigger on those. so far i’ve just made one of my wyze bulbs flash green when there’s a person detected.

[carverofchoice]

Sure! Here is a copy of a little walkthrough I made for someone else to do it with Google. If you want it to announce for packages instead of person, you would just do the same thing, except substitute “Detects a Person” for “Package” but do everything else the same:

@carverofchoice

there IS now an easy workaround thanks to some recent Google Home updates this summer! I can give you step-by-step instructions to make this happen exactly as you’re requesting.

For a V3 camera (which you tagged into this thread, so I’m going to answer related to the V3), what you would do to make this work is the following:

In the Wyze app, create a new rule for that V3 Cam, let’s say that camera’s name is “Front V3” :

• Create Rule
• Device and Service Trigger Rule
• If (select Device and Service Trigger) → Select “Front V3” (or name of cam) → Select “Detects a Person” (or Detects Motion)
• Save Trigger
• Add Action → Front V3 (or name of actual cam) → Turn on the camera
• Save Action
• Save Rule

Now, what the above does is it makes Wyze send an “On” Command to the camera through the Wyze server. Your camera is already on, so basically the command doesn’t impact the camera at all because it was already on. So nothing bad happens. But NOW we can have Google Home recognize that an “On” command was sent to that camera, and tell Google to do an action whenever it sees that on command to that camera on the Wyze server. So now lets go setup Google to do what we want it to do!

• Open Google Home
• Select the Automations tab
• Select the “+ Add” Button on the bottom right
• Select Household
• Select “+ Add starter”
• Select “When a device does something”
• Select “Front V3” (or whatever the name of the cam is)
• Select “Turns on or off” then “Turns on” then “Add Starter”
• Select “+ Add Action”
• Select “Try adding your own”
• Type in the command you want it to do, such as “Show Front V3 on Living Room Display” (This is assuming your Google Home Hub is named “Living Room Display”…if not, change “Living Room Display” for whatever your Google Hub Device’s name is).
• Save

Now go test it out. Walk in front of your V3 cam (or have someone else do it), and as soon as it detects a person, it should send the “On Command” which Google will see and then start the stream command to your Hub. Now it’s working just like you asked with a little smart ingenuity.

Now you can do the same for almost any of your other cams by doing the same thing…

Doorbells are the only exception. Wyze doesn’t have an “On command” available for a Video Doorbell Cam, so if you wanted a Doorbell to do it, you would have to tell the doorbell to send a “Turn on” command to a different camera (or other device like a plug) instead. Then it will still work for a Video Doorbell too. I have asked Wyze to please add an on/off command to their Video Doorbells to make this easier for those too. But either way this trick should work for any of your cameras to automatically stream to a Google Hub. Pretty cool stuff. I plan to have a Google Hub dedicated to do this for a couple of my outside cams.

Now your Google speakers will announce when your camera detects a person or a package. Pretty cool workaround.

It would be nice to have it built-in, but at least there is still a way to do it for those of us who want it.

[dotums]

Did you have to do anything special to make your wyze cams show up in the “When a device does something” section? In my Google Home app I only see light switches, TVs, and speakers there, not the wyze cams. The wyze cams do show up in the devices tab of the app though, just not selectable as a trigger.

[carverofchoice]

I don’t think I did anything special. It was a long time ago when I integrated it though…as in, years ago. You might have to make sure each device is added to your “Home” and maybe a room/zone within the home? Mine are that way, at least (ie: not unassigned or “Linked to you” section.

Also, make sure you select a “Household” routine, not a “Personal” Routine.

Might consider re-linking Wyze and Google Home together again too. That might refresh the list.

[dotums]

Ahh that was it. Had to add it to a specific room. It’s working now, thanks so much for this new trick!

[carverofchoice]

Awesome! You’re welcome. Thanks for the followup, that is good information to know in case someone else is trying to do it and has a similar issue. I’m glad it worked!