One great step for the future is getting Wyze products integrated into Home Assistant like other smart home products. This would be a game changer too for Wyze since those other two Amazon companies that make cams and doorbells do not fully integrate yet. Since the Home Assistant (HA) community is so large these products would sell off the shelf. One reason a lot have not fully gone to Wyze is it cannot integrate fully into HA at this time. The team of developers with HA would love to assist in getting this integrated and many in the community would say the same. Just a thought!
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Would be great to post this link on the HA forums to get up voted here. Only 700ish votes for this feature might not be enough.
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+1, Wyze should team up with Home Assistant, I would say that at least 60% of the people who buy Wyze products are ones who want to make the most out of the products and do more than the out of the box setup. Home Assistant is a great home automation hub and it only makes sense for Wyze to support it for the home automation tinkerers.
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+1 for HA integration
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+100
The problem is you’ll get enough people (probably that 40%) that will blindly support Wyze no matter what they do. I’m waiting for my sonoff camera in the mail.
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Agreed. With their lack of response to user input, while continuing to put out new products, I’ve been feeling like I made a mistake backing Wyze.
Update on that integration you posted about!
It’s now called ha-wyzeapi lol
If this is not an official api, you guys should hire this guy!
The other wyze sense integration seems like it has issues and can be difficult to install, beside the fact you have to unplug your bridge from the camera and plug it into your computer or pi…
I just got my bulbs and plugs hooked up yesterday and they are still working after wyze beta firmware updates today!
All of my contact and motion sensors are showing up, but I’m still new to HA and have not learned automation yet, so I can’t say those are “working” or not. Maybe someone more experienced can try it out and report back?
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The other API requires the hub to be plugged into you HA instance to allow local control, which is much faster. If Wyze opened up local controls, we wouldn’t need to plug it in HA instance I think.
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I’m in the middle of a move right now, but if I get the chance as I’m relocating tech, I’m definitely going to give this a try. I’ve used the Wyze Sense HA integration with great results. I’m very interested to see how this works.
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True, especially if they would allow bringing other brands devices into their system. I mainly use it to integrate my other smart devices with Wyze products.
As far as this integration I linked above, it seems to work better than the Wyze app. If I sit there and toggle one of my lights on and off over and over, the Wyze app fails about 25% of the time and the HA integration didn’t fail once. I thought I read that this was a cloud integration, but maybe they DID integrate local access and not document it? Either way, seems like this integration is actively being worked on and the older one seems to have stopped development?
What is the performance and reliability for this integration?
I am using the one that needs to plug bridge to the HA server, it is faster but once it fails, need to unplug it and restart HA, sometimes also needs to change the device name.
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I honestly couldn’t tell you.
I’m still brand new to HA and currently learning how to do automation, so I can’t even confirm all the sensors work correctly. But it sure was a lot easier to understand how to install and configure.
I just created a “sensor state” tab and all the states are showing up just about as quick as the Wyze app itself. They even have the correct icons for open and closed doors etc. So I assume they work correctly and that I just don’t know what Im doing with automation yet. lol!
Yes, this solution is cloud based. You provide the credentials you use to login to the Wyze app and HA logs into the Wyze servers instead of the Wyze app. The benefit there is that the speed should be similar to what you see when using the Wyze app. Previous solutions were to use IFTTT in the middle which introduced a lot of latency.
I haven’t tried this one yet but will install it and see how it goes. I’ve been using the other solution with the sensor bridge plugged directly into HA and have stability issues with it.
An official API allowing HA to communicate with Wyze gear locally would be ideal.
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I honestly couldn’t tell you.
I’m still brand new to HA and currently learning how to do automation, so I can’t even confirm all the sensors work correctly. But it sure was a lot easier to understand how to install and configure.
I just created a “sensor state” tab and all the states are showing up just about as quick as the Wyze app itself. They even have the correct icons for open and closed doors etc. So I assume they work correctly and that I just don’t know what Im doing with automation yet. lol!
Makes sense!
I actually just got an automation working now and I can see that the reaction time is about 1 second behind the Wyze app for the contact sensor. It takes up to 5 full seconds for HA’s state to be updated. I’m about to test the motion sensor next, but I’m guessing the same.
Unfortunately, for my situation, I was trying to cut down latency from using ifttt but it’s taking about just as long for the HA reaction as the ifttt linking. I’m concluding that it’s only checking every 5 seconds for updates on the contact sensor.
However, the lights… When using the Wyze app to toggle, HA updates can take up to 20sec to reflect it’s current state. But if you toggle a light using HA, it turns on before the Wyze app is updated. So I’m pretty sure it’s doing the lights and plugs locally?
Thanks. The other integration is much faster then, most of time is immediately. Just sometimes stop working and we have no idea it stops.
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Agreed the other integration is near instant. I’ve got it working at the front of my house where my RPI is with the bridge connected. Three contact sensors are basically instant updates in HA (faster than Wyze)
The problem is the range. I have a long, narrow house and the back end has sensors on the garage which is where ideally I want my sensors working the most for automations but they are well out of range. I can live with a 5s delay as long as it’s reliable. I found IFTTT was so unreliable that one time I actually drove into my garage at night because it started closing the door while I was reversing!
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I’ve found the range of the sensors to be quite good, at least in my case. Others have theorized that when the batteries start to drain reliability drops and I think I can confirm that. Once I replaced some weak batteries the reliability increased. The battery level can’t be below 90 from what I believe I’ve observed. I have a page in HA with all of the sensor battery levels so I can keep an eye on them. I’ve also read about people setting up slave HA boxes with another sense bridge on it located closer to the distant sensors. They use MQTT to transfer the information from the slave to the master. There is a HACS component called Remote Home Assistant which may do this as well.
I’ve definitely had reliability problems with the bridge component. I think it has to do with the lack of error correction. The logs seem to show that when the bridge stops working it was in the middle of packet transfers between a sensor and the bridge. That’s where the battery level may play a part as the transmission may weaken as the battery ages. Other components, like the Ring integration, will show in the logs when communication breaks the component times out and a retry is scheduled. I don’t believe the Wyze Sense integration can do this and it ends up in a state where it’s waiting for a transaction to complete and won’t do anything else essentially locking it up.
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Could you show me an example of how your configuration.yaml looks for this?
I copied the example from github with my credentials and nothing is showing up
At the moment I’ve only got the garage sensor and motion PIR one the app. My other three sensors I’ve got using the other wyze sense integration with the bridge plugged into my raspberry pi
Cannot for the life of me get this new integration to work, I’d love to see the garage sensor pop up!
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The only thing you need in config.yaml is the following:
wyzeapi:
username: xxxx
password: xXxXxXx