![]() ![]() ![]() That said, BLINKING lights would be a GREAT feature for Many Reasons! I know have entry sensors on my two refrigerators to let me know 'Hey Stupid, you thought that door closed when you 'threw it closed" as you were walking away" (I need to get Alexa to say that after it’s been open for 2 minutes, but can’t find a mean to do so), so I just light up the Fan Cluster and the Strip Lights to let me know “Hey Stupid…” It’s 'entertaining when One light goes Green, then another… then another… I know what direction my “Pets” are going around my house)Īll lights in the Ceiling Fan light ‘cluster’ go off after 45 seconds. (Because everything that is non human is apparently my Pet per Wyze :)… Pet Coyotes, Pet Raccoons, Pet Ravens, Pet Possum, Pet Rats, Pet Mice, Pet Gophers, Pet Hummingbirds, Pet Hawks, Pet Lizards, Pet Snakes (don’t recall if that one triggered or not)… Pet Finches, etc…) It was important to make it to the box and pull the blind cat out before you walked into her art work on her way out of the boxĪny of my WCOs or V3s detect a pet, the light facing that side of the house turns Green I used to have a V3 pointing at my 17 year old Blind Cat’s litter box in the sun room, so that if she made it to the box to do her business, all four lights would turn on to Yellow, as well as the two Strip lights to the same color yellow (one strip behind the main TV, the other lights my desk under some shelves). Video Doorbell detects person, the color light facing the front door turns RedĪny of my WCOs or V3s detect a person, the light facing that side of the house turns Red Ideally, it would be local to the device (I should flash 3 times and then return to my previous state) than relying on network commands which might be delayed. Just start with a really simple implementation and, if you see the usage, you could do a more sophisticated implementation. I know there are options for lots of different implementations but for the sake of simplicity we don’t need those variables. Wyze could start implementation on the Wyze bulbs and then consider doing the indoor/outdoor switches. This would be a major value-add in my opinion, not just for accessibility for those with disabilities but for normal users who would like silent cues. This would probably meet a majority of the use cases while keeping the development time minimal. (set duration of 1-second on, 1-second off) Flash until on or off command received.Flash 9 times (for really eye catching flashiness).Flash 3 times (3 seems like the minimum to be clear when starting from either an on or off state).Wyze should really implement this accessibility feature!Įven a really simple implementation would be helpful: This on top of the benefit it could have for those that are hard of hearing, or might have thick doors, walls, or distance that make the doorbell chime hard to hear. Smart home tech is supposed to not only make our lives easier, but also help us solve some of these annoying little problems. While I in no way blame Wyze for the ruined delivery, but the delivery person, something as simple as being able to get a bulb flash would have helped mitigate the circumstances, for everyone. A flashing light tied to the doorbell would have helped to prevent the delivery from being ruined. It is, at times easy to ignore a phone notification, especially since, in this case, all Wyze notifications have to have to same sound and you can’t set different sounds for different notification events. We had a delivery recently where the delivery person just set the delivery on our porch. But that’s less of an issue for us personally than say, getting the bulb to potentially flash when the doorbell detects motion. Right now I’m not seeing anyway to get Google to acknowledge scenes, like for Wyze’s color bulb. Another work around that would work for us, outside of IFTTT would be able to import scenes from Wyze into Google Routines. This would be great, and even better if they made it not just a trigger in the app, but extended it to an IFTTT option.
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