step one is going to be to kill your power in my case the people who were here before me didn't
exactly wire this place well so the only way to actually turn the doorbell off outside is
to come to our main breaker and i know it's dark in here but you know what it's a breaker box it's
not meant to be lit so we're just going to kill our main power we will come over to our wyze app
select our plus sign and select add a device and we'll say camera and this does count as a camera
so that we have wyze doorbell and click here to skip installation tutorial or we can actually go
through since this is the first time we're going to go through everything we're going to hit next
we need a phillips head screwdriver and then it's indicating our information for our chime
box i have a screwdriver we're gonna go this is everything that is included which was over there
and we will hit next again required extra stuff so again phillips screwdriver we need everything else
was provided next and we already turned off the power since i watched a bunch of videos too so i
already knew that next we're going to open the chime box and then figure out if we have a two
wire setup or a three wire setup so we're just going to come in take this off our chime box
which is pretty dusty and this is partially where i cut the power but just to be safe just to make
sure that there's no power going to it we're good okay so we have a two wire setup because we only
have a front door but if we had a back door bell it would be a three wire setup it is recommended
that you come in and for future installations take a picture of what you got and then what
we're going to do is we are going to remove our two wires and attach them via the included
cap and wire to bypass the chime box because wyze is not going to use this so we'll come back in a
moment the bypass wire and caps are not terrible to actually install you don't really need any
extra tools except for the caps here the wiring that you probably have in your chime box are the
thicker uh cable edge however the bypass wire are those feathery ones so you actually just need the
cap twist them together you don't actually have to twist the cable edge together before
tapping them together so once you get that wiring in you'll just kind of tuck that in neatly somehow
and then move on to the next step all right so we kind of skipped some steps here but we had a
two-wire system and it shows disconnect everything which we already did so i'm going to say next
we did it yay put the chimebacks back on and then prepare for installation next so what we have to
do now is disconnect the existing doorbell so in our case the existing doorbell is actually my
skybell that i was testing out a couple years ago so for me removal of this is going to be slightly
longer than if you have a generic doorbell because for me i have an extra screw and then the plate
underneath so we'll come back when that's off all right so i got my sky bell off i've got the
mounting plate pretty much removed and then i just have to finish unwrapping our cableage
after which we'll go to the next step which will be to get our wyze mounting plate here hopefully
the plate that i will be using will be similar in size i do hope that i can use the existing
holes however i feel that it's a little shorter so i'm gonna have to at least drill one new hole
all right doorbell removed we go next so what we're gonna do is we are going to say
flat against this so we want parallel so we're selecting the wall plate or if we did the wedge
so wall plate is this wedge is that so it kind of rocks back and forth
showing you we're going to try the wall plate if we need to do the wedge we can
update to the wedge we're going to say no vertical wedge because they're just kind of showing we're
going to see how this does with no vertical wedge next all right so we're gonna get the wall plate
and screw our wall plate in the wall plate has a very faint upside right there so just so you
know where you're mounting it correctly there was a change of plans because of the spacing i had
between my wall and where i was putting this thing in i'd use the wedge which means just putting
the wedge in first and then putting the plate in now it says we have to attach the wiring via the
connectors we're going to say next just to see what it says so we're going to say connect it
using the extenders we have these here so we're not really going to have to use the extenders
because with the wedge we also get extra room to tuck it up back in there so we're going gonna do
that next so once again wyze decided to make a liar out of me if you don't have long enough
cableage here you will need to use the extenders which i ended up having to do but thankfully i'm
using the wedge so i'll be able to tuck things up inside we're gonna select next and it says to turn
on our doorbell power so we can make sure that that's actually working so that's what we're going
to do next so we turn the power back on you can see there it's flashing orange and saying ready to
connect we're going to hit next once you hear your doorbell saying ready to connect that actually
pretty much is the end of the installation process you can take and mount it up on your
plate here which just pretty much slides into place whether you're using the angled plate
or the flat plate and it will continue to stay ready to connect until you're ready to connect
so that ends the installation portion and then it just moves into the actual setup process
you