here we're looking at the application for wise this is your home for everything however right
now we're going to look at why sense and wise motion i'm going to start with the sense and this
one is attached to my basement door now there's a lot of things that you can do with these scents
the first operation that happens with it is it will notify you if something is open or closed
there's other magic that you can do that you can trigger a wise plug or wise bulbs in my case i
have this basement door triggering my wise bulbs here now clicking on the y sense will show us the
current status which is closed if this was open it would show open and it was closed at 1 10 p.m
because i went down into my basement to check on something here you can see a status or a log
of all the actions that have happened with the y sense in this case open six seconds
open four seconds open four seconds and we just keep scrolling down and it will show now you can
kind of set this up to show specific information it is a 14 day log so just keep that in mind if
you're looking for something past 14 days you won't be able to see that again for me i have
this to trigger lights in my basement so i really care how long something is open however if you
have this on a door to the outside or garage you may want to know how long that door has been open
coming up here to the right hand corner is our sprocket icon which is our settings if we click on
that we can select this and change our name if we wanted to i'm going to leave it as is you've got
your notifications clicking on this will allow you to alter the notifications in my case like
i said because that is to trigger a basement door i don't necessarily want a push notification when
the door is opened or closed so i have that turned off currently however if we turn that on we can
receive a push notification for when it opens when it closes or if it is left open or if it is left
closed for a specific amount of time so if we say left open we can select hours minutes even down to
the second how long it's been open before it sends a push notification to you in my case like i said
i don't care about being notified because this is being used as a trigger for turning on those
basement lights down here we have sensor video what this will do is if a sensor is triggered
well then you can set one of your cameras to start recording so if i wanted to i could say workshop
which means hey i'm open i'll start taking video just like the little picture says
i'm going to turn that off so all it is is a little check mark and you're good to go
in my case the basement door and the workshop are far apart so triggering that one not so useful for
me but it may be for you schedule and automation now this is where this particular product shines
like i said if by default it will notify you when it's open or closed for a specific amount of time
or just when it opens or closes however in my case like i said i have a rule set up that when
the basement door is open my lights go on so let me show you so enabled basement door is opened
turn on this grouping of wise bulbs now to do that from scratch we would come up here
to the plus sign click on that and we would say either shortcut schedule or trigger a device
in my case this was a trigger device and add a trigger so i am going to trigger hypothetically
basement light 1 to turn itself on and then i would hit save or if we come back here
we can set a schedule now the schedule in my opinion for the sense and the motion not as useful
because you really want to be triggering devices so again i want to add something i will say
bedroom light so if my bedroom door opens up i would turn on my light and i would hit save so
one of the problems with filming stuff ahead of time especially when software is involved
things change and one of the biggest complaints i had about the sense well guess what wise updated
so let me show you what i'm talking about we're going to come in here to our sense we're going to
come up here to settings and then we're going to go to schedule and automation now remember
the biggest thing that i said i wish they would do under device triggers was specify a time in
which these actions were to happen well guess what they fixed it it does that now so it's great so
name optional so this menu has changed a little bit so we could give it a name if we wanted to
which we will just call it test device trigger so we're going to say
when basement door is open now you can as i said before has been open for a specific time but we're
going to say open saves so that's when basement door opens action to do will be to turn on this
singular light so turn on that light and then you can specify color temperature and all that
hit save and then this this is the part that i wanted if time so we're going to say time
only run action if the trigger occurs between so you can set a start time
and an end time so you could say between these two time periods so 2 10 pm to
4 10 p.m if it's not between these two times it's not going to do this action you can select
days of the week and then hit save this this is great wise keep stepping up their game
and i'm happy that they do this because now you don't have to go out to ifttt
and set it up that way not everybody's going to have the patience to go and do that so the ability
to do that inside the wise app itself kudos i will give them credit for updating that and again
as quickly as they did because i didn't get a chance to get my review out in time before
they change that so here's a little addendum to the app section sharing if we click on that
again you can add a person they need you need their email address and they need to have the
wise app and down here is device info this will show you signal strength battery life etc and
other personal information so we're not going to quite get into that there's also delete device
coming back motion is very similar again it shows right now that it's clear meaning
there is no motion it was last cleared at 1 11 pm and then here we go it's log
detected motion detected motion now this one i have set up at the top of my stairs
just sitting there looking straight ahead so my original vision for this was to take it downstairs
and door open at the top of stairs basement light turned on this clears and the lights would go off
the problem i found was with the motion if it doesn't detect any motion it doesn't automatically
clear so if i open the door at the top of the stairs to grab cat litter but i don't go
downstairs in the basement and pass this it would not clear the room and the lights would stay on so
i moved this up and kind of have it leaning i'll show you what it looks like it's just sitting on
a step stool facing the door and when i open the door it sees me and then clears it afterwards so
where i had it before in the basement didn't quite work out that's not a fault against this this is
just me learning where i should have been placing these now similarly if we come up here settings
device name just like with the sense we can change it there
notifications just like that however right now i have this one turned on for
detect motion and becomes clear and again you can toggle these on and off depending on what you want
in fact we're just going to turn off push notifications all together
sensor video just like before you can say hey i sense motion start recording with and that is my
smart doorbell letting me know there's motion but we're talking about the wise motion so if your
wise motion sense motion it can tell one of these devices that you have attached to your account
to start recording we're not going to do that and just like before scheduling automation down here
i have basement motion has been clear for five minutes and then it will turn itself off now again
to do that plus sign device trigger add device to trigger we come down to my group of lights which
is not showing up because i already have it set to trigger that's why so i would say this bulb
and i would turn it off after motion is cleared and then you would just hit done and and that's
the scheduling aspect and again the scheduling and triggers are what make these devices so unique and
impressive again sharing clicking on that you can share need their email address they need the app
and just like before device info battery status signal status serial number mac address so we're
not going to get into that so that has been a look at the app for the wise sensor and wise motion
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