Part 5: WeMo, Presence Detection and Wyze Cam

Picked up a few Wyze Cams and Belkin WeMo’s to setup a security system at home. The logic will be as follows:

1. When I leave, the WeMo Plugs turn on and the security cameras are turned on and start recording.
2. When I come home, the WeMo Plugs turn off and power is cut from the security cameras.

A few things needs to be done…

1. The WeMo plugs are automatically detected by HassIO.
2. Presence detection on when I’m home is a bit trickier. I will try a few methods to get this at 100%.

My device detection of choice is to use a Bayesian Binary Sensor which puts a weighted probability on the different methods I end up using for location tracking.

1. HomeKit Method – https://community.home-assistant.io/t/homekit-as-a-presence-sensor/50370
   1. Installed the Homebridge Hass.IO add-on – refer to the following for configuration details: https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge
   2. Currently just testing this first sensor addition. Depending on up and downtime. I will

Also ran into a weird bug where my Samba Share was not showing up in my Network drives – had to use the following path to get there: \\hassio.local

Was also drafting a blog post about Nest. This ended up being easier than I thought: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/nest/ My worry was that port forwarding would give me issue but I worked with my ISP to get this opened up.