Hello everyone.
Thanks for tuning in again.
Now if you remember
the Wyzecam 2 that we set up
recently on the channel here.
That camera, it's a fantastic
HD camera, but it doesn't...or it didn't
do a lot of connecting to some of those automation
services that we really need to create
great functionality in our smart home.
so I'm going to show you today how to get that our of your $20
Wyzecam 2.
Let's go.
Ok, so like I said in the intro
The Wyzecam 2
is a relatively inexpensive camera.
It has great capabilities in terms of the physical camera.
It's motion detection, its sound detection, it can detect alarms for you in your home
like smoke and carbon monoxide.
But what it can't do, or couldn't when it first came out, is connect to any of your
other smart home devices.
So what I'm going to show you in this video is how to start connecting your Wyzecam 2
to other devices.
And then you can go ahead and take what I've shown you and tweak into however you want
to set up your smart home.
So we're going to go to IFTTT.com.
If you don't have an account, you're going to need to sign up for one.
We're going to search for Wyze and we're going to connect that service.
Now you're going to have to use your username and password that you used when you signed
up your Wyzecam.
Once you do that, and you hit "authorize", you've then connected the Wyze service to
IFTTT.
Now you have a host of different automation things that you can use.
There are a number of triggers and actions that you can use with this service.
Like I said, motion, sound, smoke alarm, carbon monoxide.
All of those can be triggers.
You also have all of the actions.
Now, I'm going to create a new applet.
Every day at 11 pm, I'm going to enable motion detection.
So I'm going to search for Wyze, and here I'm going to enable motion detection.
You can see I chose all cameras.
You could choose a specific camera if you wanted.
You can enable this applet multiple times for multiple cameras.
Now after that I'm going to create a second applet.
Again I'm going to use the date and time service.
I'm going to choose 7am in the morning.
Here I'm going to disable my Wyzecam motion detection.
I choose disable, and all cameras.
And then I create the applet.
So now I have motion detection whenever I go to sleep at night.
However, when Ieave my home, and this is a pre-made applet right on the Wyzecam IFTTT
page, I want to disable the motion detection when I'm at home.
And then I want to enable it when I'm away.
So I'm going to choose all cameras, and then you have to choose your area.
This is just like a Google Map.
You hit the plus and minus buttons and then you just go find your home's location.
Save that applet as well.
On the flip side, I want to enable motion detection when I leave home.
So all cameras, again.
And I've also chosen where my home is located on the applet.
Now I just want to show you if you were to use Wyzecam as the trigger.
Here, like I said, motion, sound, smoke alarm, and CO alarms.
Those alarms can all be the trigger for actions in your home automation system.
Using motion detection, I can create a trigger.
Here's what you have access to from this motion detection.
You can see a boolean value of MotionDetected and a Trigger Time.
That's actually the time the motion was detected.
One thing to note is that you don't actually have access to the physical file that your
Wyzecam creates.
That's not available just yet on the IFTTT service.
Now moving on, I'm going to choose an action service.
I'm going to choose Philips Hue light.
You could of course use anything, and something that's going to be the most useful is a siren.
I'm just going to turn on a light on a color loop.
You would obviously have to choose a light that has that capability.
I have one in my home here.
One last thing I want to show you, and this is really useful as far as I'm concerned.
I'm going to use a Samsung SmartThings motion detector to trigger a recording regardless
of whether or not my Wyzecam has picked up motion.
So I'm going to choose "any new motion" from Samsung SmartThings.
Now I'm going to choose the device.
My motion sensor is far away from my Wyzecam, but it's close enough that my Wyzecam would
see it when I record on it.
I'm choosing the "Record a short video clip" action from Wyzecam.
I'm going to choose that specific camera.
I'm going to create the action.
There, I now have the capability of recording based off of other sensors or other things
in my home automation system.
You could do this with water sensors.
You could do this with any type of sensor you have in your home, attached to any automation
system, as long as it connects to IFTTT.
I think this is really great functionality, and I hope this has given you alot to work
with, with your Wyzecam 2.
Of course, with just how cheap that camera is, this is now a great option for those of
us looking to improve our smart home.