Connand-line app to easily manage some models of Wyze cameras. Note: not all Wyze cameras support all actions.
My scenarios are turning on/off motion detection based on geofencing, and restarting my cameras once a day.
I was using IFTTT to do that until they got greedy.
Running the following from a sh terminal will turn off motion detection for all cameras but for the ones named "Outside Shed", "Outside Kitchen" or "Front Door Bell", and print "failed x operation(s)" with x a number if some cameras were unresponsive (which isn't uncommon - rebooting cameras once a day helps some):
python3 app.py --action motion_alarm_off --log-level=INFO --exclude='Outside Shed,Outside Kitchen,Front Door Bell' || echo "failed $? operation(s)"
Note: filters are case sensitive, and no error is raised when specifying cameras that don't exist as exclude or include filters.
Other examples
python3 app.py --action motion_alarm_on --exclude "Front Door Bell"
python3 app.py --action restart --include "Kitchen pan"
Needed: wyze e-mail, password, api id, and api key. The latter two can be created here
python3 app.py --action restart --wyze-email 'Wyze email' --wyze-password 'Wyze password' --wyze-key-id 'Wyze key id' --wyze-api-key 'Wyze api key'
Pro of env vars: these don't show up when doing ps
export [email protected]
export WYZE_PASSWORD=some_strong_password
export WYZE_KEY_ID=the_key_id
export WYZE_API_KEY=the_api_key
python3 app.py --action restart --log-level=INFO
This sets a docker container to restart all Wyze cameras but 3 of them:
sudo docker run \
--name wyze-restart -d \
-e [email protected] \
-e WYZE_PASSWORD=some_strong_password \
-e WYZE_KEY_ID=the_key_id \
-e WYZE_API_KEY=the_api_key \
vdbg/wyze-cli --action restart --exclude="Outside Shed,Outside Kitchen,Front Door Bell"
This verifies the setup is correct (proper credentials, etc.):
sudo docker container logs wyze-restart
If setup not correct, run this and restart at first step:
sudo docker container rm wyze-restart
Once setup is confirmed correct, this will restart the Wyze cameras:
sudo docker container start wyze-restart
Multiple docker containers can be created from the same image; in my case I have 3 of them: wyze-restart, wyze-monitor-on, wyze-monitor-off.
The expiration date for the Wyze API key is a lie. Sometimes Wyze will silently delete the key with no warning or notification. The symptom will be a line of log similar to:
root - CRITICAL - 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://auth-prod.api.wyze.com/api/user/login
Fix: head to this page to confirm the api key
has disappeared, create a new one, and update the WYZE_KEY_ID and WYZE_API_KEY settings.
If a camera is missing when running --list, try running --list-all. If the camera appears when doing the latter, then
send a pull request to update https://github.com/vdbg/wyze-sdk/tree/add_camera_models