while there are a ton of sensors that you can get connected to Amazon's voice
assistant in order to use their fantastic routines function there are
only a few that are $5
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from automate your life
and today I'm going to take the frustration out of automation and a lot
of the cost out of automation quite frankly by telling you how to connect a
system where you can go ahead and just get five-dollar sensors to trigger very
complex automations now what I'm actually talking about in terms of
products is the Wyze system and this is the Wyze cam v2 you've probably heard
about the Wyze cam pan but you might not have heard about the Wyze Sense system
and we've talked about it here on automate your life a number of times but
really what we're talking about there is a kit that you can go and buy for $20 us
and if you're outside of the US you got to do some work here to get these
products to you but the Wyze Sense starter kit is $20 contains a couple of these
contact sensors and a motion sensor and a bridge that connects into the back of
a Wyze cam now once you have that Wyze bridge you can go ahead and buy these
sensors for $5 u.s. and this is where it becomes extremely powerful because now
you can connect it to Amazon's voice assistant Alexa and now use them within
routine if you want to go to that next level and you want to trigger something
on you can go ahead and you can use the Wyze plugs as well and the Wyze bulbs
which are ten dollars as well so you can get really complex automations into
amazon's voice assistant Alexa here now of course you
can still use the Wyze application there don't get me wrong but what amazon Alexa gives
you access to is a whole other set of actions that are far and away better
than what Wyze gives you access to so yes you can connect directly through the
Wyze system still but when you connect to Amazon's voice assistant Alexa I'll show you
what you're going to get access to let me show you very quickly what the
connection process is like you go into Amazon's voice assistant application you
go to the menu and you go down to skills
and games then you search for Wyze which is W Y Z E and you go ahead and connect
that skill or enable that skill putting your Wyze credentials that you have
already created when you installed all of those products now if you don't know
how to install all of those products I do have a video that I will leave a link
down in the description below so you can go ahead and get Wyze Sense setup with
your Wyze cams and have all of that working now after I show you all the
great parts of this I am gonna show you a couple of things that are kind of
detractors to using it this way but let's go in-depth now with what you can
do within routines with these sensors first off you'll need to find your
devices or you will need to start by creating a new routine but it's good to
know what has been discovered through the process you just went through now
once you have discovered those devices you can actually go in to see your
cameras any other Wyze cameras through the camera section or the lights if you
have the Wyze bulbs through the light section but in order to find the sensors
you'll have to head into all devices now mine happens to be called basement
stairs motion and this is one of the motion sensors that you can get with
this Wyze Sense system so you can go into the settings for that device you
can adjust the name you can even enable and disable it but you can also tell
that it is connected through wise home and their service so that's how you know
it's one of the motion sensors coming from that system you know we could hit
create a routine down below within the device settings here or we can go into
the basic menu in the application and go into routines there once we're inside of
routines now we're creating some of this complex automation that we've talked
about now you're going to go up to the top hit that plus button and this is the
start of creating really complex and fantastic automation what you're going
to hit next is when this happens and this is where you're going to choose
your smart home and this is where all your different sensors or your triggers
all your trigger devices exist here so you'll be able to see both the contact
and the motion sensors within this I also have the
secret event sensor here which is a contact sensor so you can see that I
could choose either a motion or a contact sensor and now I'm going to
choose that basement stairs motion detector and go ahead and choose that
motion was detected once I hit next we're back to the main page and I can go
ahead and rename this entire automation if I'd like I can also set times and
days that that time period that I want this to execute within so I can really
limit this to only happen in the evenings if I'd like on the weekends the
next thing we want to do is go into the actions that we are going to execute and
for me I'm going to choose just a couple of things here but you could literally
do ten different actions with this so you can see the full list here where you
can get your voice assistant to say something you can have it read the
calendar the date or the time you can actually change some of amazon's some of
your device's settings there like do not disturb you can have it go through read
your email summary and get good news Amazon guard you can trigger that on if
this and that is also a very powerful thing that you can go ahead and trigger
applets there maybe you can do that with the wise service directly so maybe
something you don't need you can also trigger messaging so you
can actually send an announcement to your Amazon Alexa device meant devices have a
notification trigger there as well the next thing is you can start music news
or even skills so you can trigger certain skills and then of course smart
home sounds traffic you can have it wait a minute or you can have a wait an hour
if you'd like and then you can get the weather now for the purposes of this
demo I'm just gonna go into smart home and I'm going to control a couple of
lights so I'm going to have to add two actions here I could do it by group if I
wanted to but I just wanted to show you that you can add multiple actions here
so I'm choosing basement stairs in this case and I could power it on or off
based on motion I can set the brightness I can also ramp the brightness over a
certain amount of time if I'd like to kind of
create a morning routine here where it wakes me up and I can set the color
temperature which is very important with the Wyze bulbs or I could set the color
in general if it was say a Philips hue bulb now once I've added that I can do
the same with the second action here with basement stairs at the bottom
that's my secondary light here so we can trigger on multiple of these and then we
could have it do any of those other actions so I think you can see just how
powerful that is going to be for you with the Wyze five-dollar sensors here
that you can get from their website now there is one drawback with all of this
and that is speed because what you're actually doing is you're going from
these sensors and then you're going to the bridge that's in the back of the
Wyze camera there's a little processing that goes on and then it's sent off to
the Wyze servers for execution basically so you have to get all of that to happen
before it comes back goes through amazon's voice assistant Alexa and the application or
their voice assistant and then triggers the action so there's a lot going on and
i probably didn't even get that whole path exactly right here i was just kind
of ad-libbing it but i think you get the point there's a little bit of a delay
and it's much quicker through wisest system so if you just want to turn on
the Wyze bulb still do that in general through wisest system but if you connect
amazon to philips hue that response is very quick after this has gone to Wyze's
server so there's a couple of ways for you to make it a little bit quicker and
over time I think this will get quicker as Wyze improves their cloud service in
general they are working on that right now and it's a bit of a problem for the
platform but I'm getting about a second of a delay out of a motion or a contact
sensor by the time I have that trigger within Amazon's Alexa system and actually see
the action so it's not that bad it's just something right now that's a little
bit longer than some of you might expect now the next thing you're probably going
to want to know is how you can use these sensors in a lot of different ways and
we actually created a three-part series four how to use these devices
with the Wyze cams and we have a ton of information and knowledge here and ideas
for you with your Wyze system so go ahead watch that playlist that's up on
screen otherwise check the news for Amazon's voice assistant Alexa which is also
on screen to get all the latest features and updates from them otherwise guys
thanks for watching and of course don't hate automate