This is a good idea!! Wyze please consider this!
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I just noticed this message from @mike.s. I hope that means itâs under consideration. Internally, the hardware could be nearly identical to the contact sensors, so it seems like it might be fairly easy to implement in terms of manufacturing.
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I would absolutely love a Wyze buttonâŚIâm imagining something small like the contact sensor or motion sensor that I could put at the end of my hall and assign to a macro like my âturn all bulbs offâ macro for when I go to bed or leave the house. I have motion or contact sensors turning everything on and Iâd love a quick way to turn them all off without using the app.
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Yep, Iâm thinking thatâs the perfect size and it will fit in with the aesthetic of the existing Wyze Sense stuff. It might be nice if it came with a plastic backplate you can snap it into, instead of ONLY an adhesive option. (Although it could certainly come with adhesive as well) Since youâll touch and interact with a button more often than the sensors, it would be nice to have a more solid mounting option.
I just had a cool idea â if the button can be used as a toggle, it would be useful to have a green/red LED on it. Since the button would most likely be battery-powered, it probably doesnât make sense to leave the light on all the time, but if youâre using it as a toggle, it could flash the LED green when youâve turned something on, and red when youâre turned something off, just to give you visual feedback that youâve performed the expected action.
I have two of these Alexa buttons. They flash one color to say command started and another color to let you know the command is completed. One of mine shuts the lights off everywhere but the bedroom over a 5 minute period. Then it arms the alarm in stay mode.
The other one turns off all lights in the house over a 5 minute period then arms the alarm in away mode (which turns Alexa guard on which turns some lights in the house on/off simulating occupied activity) sets the thermostat to the away schedule and when supported will turn all my inside cameras on.
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It doesnât support toggling, right? I looked into those at one point but everything I could find online seemed to say it canât be used as a toggle, which is fairly limiting, in my opinion.
If you were using it with a light, for example, it would be nice if a button press turned the light ON, if the light is OFF, and turns the light OFF if the light is ON.
Same with home/away mode. It would be nice, if I can press it when I leave to go trigger away mode, and press it when I return to disable away mode. But it doesnât seem to work that way.
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The limitation there is that lights in Alexa do not expose their current status via Routines. I understand this is coming near term. When it does then it could be used as a toggle. Until then, nope.
My hope is both Wyze/Hue and ultimately others will give us more access via APIâs that could be accessed via Alexa or Google or IFTTT or Billy Bob down the road. Itâs coming I think but the market is still very fragmented and competitive.
Google/Amazon/SmartThings/Wyze etc are all in both the smart home device market with locks, cameras, thermostats etc and some are also in the command and control side as well.
To some degree they are incentivized not to be cooperative so it will be interesting to watch how it plays out and which if any standards emerge.
Whether the light gives visual feedback or not, it would be nice if the button could be used as a toggle, which isnât currently possible, as far as I understand. Right?
Amazon seems fairly willing to cooperate. Google less so. Apple least of all. But yeah, weâll see how everything plays out in the next couple of years. Amazon seems to have smarthome dominance so far, and since they seem the most willing to âplay ballâ with other devices, Iâm hopeful that may bode well for the future âopennessâ of the smart home.
Not at the moment, as I mentioned above, once state is exposed which they have confirmed on the developer site, then it will indeed function as a toggle. Until then nope.
I share your hope, and agree that so far Amazon seems to be the most agreeable of the big three.
I think you misunderstood me, I am not speaking of the lights on the button but Alexa exposing the status or state of a light bulb, Hue or Wyze or whomever.
I might buy one once they add toggle support. Right now, $20 isnât really worth it for me, for something that doesnât really function the way Iâd want it to anyway.
Although if it were $5 on Black Friday or something, Iâd probably bite. Haha. Iâve got 3 Amazon Plugs because of this. Theyâre nowhere near the best smart plugs on the market since theyâre limited to Alexa, but Amazon routinely puts them on sale for $5, which makes it an easier âYes.â
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Oh, I gotcha. Yeah, I did misunderstand. The Alexa app DOES have the state, though. I guess youâre just saying the state isnât shared with the button?
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It does indeed have the state, you just canât currently use that state in a conditional or in a routine like:
If light is on then or If light is off then
But that functionality is coming according to Amazon devs on their site.
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This would be a good use case for a Wyze Virtual Switch, by the way. 
I keep trying to pimp this wishlist item, because Iâd love for them to implement it. Haha. It hasnât gotten a lot of votes yet, but I think if people understood what they could do with this, theyâd be all over it. And it seems like it should be super simple for Wyze to implement. Basically, if there were a virtual switch which could be toggled by Alexa, (or Google or IFTTT or whatever) you could use an external device (Like an Echo Button) to toggle any rule you could think of in the Wyze app. It wouldnât just be limited to the features Wyze has direct Alexa support for.
Itâs the simplest way for them to make their logic a lot more powerful across platforms. Essentially, anything you could automate in Wyze could be automated through Alexa, and anything you could automate through Alexa could be automated through Wyze.
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Mainly because, like you said, people donât realize what you can do with them. I have a bunch of them in SmartThings to accomplish various things.
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I think I voted for your wishlist on that. State toggles would be nice, I very much am anxiously awaiting them in Ring and Alexa and Wyze among other platforms. There are some but for whatever reason they are few and far between in home automation.
