I’ve never had any Wyze Switches, so I can’t confirm this myself, but I’ve been following your other topic and read what you wrote there about this. It seems weird to me that your “Choose Devices” screen actually shows other Switches (along with Bulb, Bulb Color, and Light Strip) but no Plugs (and I’d lump Plug Outdoor into this, too, because that’s often a more convenient option for controlling indoor things).
If I understand what “Smart Control” is supposed to do, then a single press of the Switch in this mode is supposed to act merely as a toggle (i.e., change the state from “on” to “off” or vice versa) for the selected Wyze device(s). Is that correct? If so, then this should definitely apply to Plug and Plug Outdoor in addition to Wyze lighting products, especially if it’s already applying to other Switches!
This really does seem like something Wyze may have removed without thinking, and I agree with your assessment that this
The only possible reason that immediately comes to mind for why Wyze might’ve done this relates to how Google Home treats things like smart plugs. If I navigate to a Wyze Plug’s settings in the Google Home app, then there’s a “Device type” section with options like “Light”, “Air conditioner”, “Coffee maker”, etc., and I think Google Home is designed so that certain devices can’t be controlled in certain ways. For example, if I have a Wyze Plug’s “Device type” set as “Outlet” and ask a nearby Google Home Mini to turn it off in one minute, then Google Assistant responds by saying, “Sorry. Because of potential risk to safety, I can’t schedule actions for devices configured as outlets.” If I then change the Plug’s “Device type” to “Light” and try the same voice-activated action, it succeeds. I realize that some people are going to do bone-headed things like use these to power space heaters and then muck up the automations and trigger those unintentionally or leave them running longer than intended or at times when they’re unattended, but I don’t think that means these companies should try to be in the nanny business and protect consumers from their own bad decisions. I don’t know if that’s why this happened in the Switch/Plug situation, but that seems like a conceivable explanation if it wasn’t pure oversight.
You get my vote. 