[How To] Motion alerts from Wyze Cams using tinyCam Pro

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Here's a simple way to get motion alerts from Wyze cams using tinyCam Pro. I have tinyCam Pro running on an old Android Nexus 7 with the option of 'Run of Boot' selected.

First thing is to add your Wyze cams into tinyCam Pro. This part should be pretty straight forward.

Now with that out of the way, let's get motion alerts into Hubitat...(VERY similar to Blue Iris)

  • In Rule Machine:

    • 'Create New Rule', 'Define a Trigger', 'Name the Trigger'
    • 'Select Trigger Events', 'Select capability' = 'Local End Point'
    • Note: you will need the 'Local End Point URL' in tinyCam
    • 'Select Actions' to do whatever you like!

  • In tinyCam Pro (Android version):

    • Select the cam you want to use and then select the 'Hamburger menu' (3 dots in upper right hand corner)
    • Select Camera Settings
    • Scroll down to the 'Advanced Settings' and select 'Motion detection'
    • Check off 'In-app motion detection'
    • Further down on the same menu, find 'Webhook on motion' and enter in the 'Local End Point URL from RM
    • Now just back out to the Live Video screen and you should be all set!

Have fun!

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I've been using tinycam for more than 5 years and never knew this option existed. Thank you sir!

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I'm confused, you mean tinyCam, right?

I had a similar setup but using IFTTT, it works fine, is this setup faster?

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Yes, the RM part is exactly the same process, whether you want to use the End Point with tinyCam or Blue Iris.

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I am doing something a bit different using the Maker API. I set up a virtual Motion sensor. Then in MotionEye (the tinycam-like software I'm using for Raspberry Pi), I'm then able to put in the Maker API links for Active and Inactive for the virtual motion sensor. Then when the cam's motion goes active, so does the motion sensor, and then when it goes inactive, so does the virtual motion sensor. You're then able to use the virtual sensor anywhere you would use a normal motion sensor.

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I’m just using IFTTT for WyzeCam integration with Hubitat for now. Seems to work well enough for my needs, and very simple to implement. I have a HE virtual switch that I use to Turn On/Off my cameras based on whether or not we are home and or the current mode. I haven’t tried using the WyzeCam’s motion trigger yet. Hopefully there is not a large delay.

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@ogiewon, that’s exactly what I’m doing and so far so good :blush:

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I generally find WyzeCam's motion trigger and alerts to be useless for notification purpors, it does a very simplistic image diff so light changing gives you alerts - and you get bombarded with notifications. However the good thing about it is that alerts do get saved to the clouds. For real alerting I have read motion sensors then corelate to the camera. Wyze has a new PIR motion sensor, hopefully that may make things better

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Please provide more detail on how you set this up. I setup the virtual Motion sensor. In tinycam, I only see 'Webhook on motion'. First time using Maker API -- am I doing a Get Device Command, or a Send Device Command? Do I put that into tinycam webhook?

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