So just when will WYZE create a system of displaying your cameras on your TV to compete with ROKU? And, I’m talking about one that will not require any type of subscription.
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In addition a system that will not require replacing any and all cameras you might have.
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I have been waiting a long time to see my cams on Roku natively. Guess there must be either a conflict or no desire at the top end.
There are Android devices with HDMI port and Google Play installed. You can install the Wyze app and make the TV its display. I did this even before the V3 camera came out.
Yes. Tried that, but I live in Roku.
I have a Roku TV at the cottage but I don’t think I have took full advantage of it. Care to share what you like the most?
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It could be a personal preference, as with anything.
When I turn on my TV, I boot straight into a Roku Ultra 4K. My favorite selections appear at the top of my list.
YouTube is my most used app for news and weather. I can watch local, national or international news. I view a lot of podcasts like commentary shows and how-to tech and home videos. I enjoy travel sites.
I download full length videos from YouTube and watch them ad-free on my Roku through the USB port. I can also view photo albums.
I enjoy the android interface on phones and tablets, but I find Roku offers better style apps and continuity on big-screen TVs.
I canceled TV cable service many years ago and put up an external antenna for OTA HD broadcasts, but I still prefer my Roku access to news. I often hear about local and global events before friends and family.
I also listen to different music apps like Sirius XM and Pandora.
It’s probably down to personal preference. I don’t know how it compares to Apple TV.
I tried a FireStick. It’s acceptable.
Having a Wyze app on Roku would be convenient if I am already using my Roku watching something else.
Again, just a personal view.
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Just to satisfy my curiosity, would you mind elaborating on this? Google Play Store tells me that I can’t install the Wyze app on my Google TV. I haven’t yet dug deep enough to see if it’s possible to install the app onto a Chromecast device, but I suspect that it isn’t. For the Wyze and other cameras that I’ve linked to Google Home, I usually just ask Assistant on a smart speaker to cast whichever camera I want to see at a given time.
After I read that, I tried the Screen Cast feature on three different Android devices, and only one of them (a lower-end tablet running Android Go) was able to cast to the Roku Express (the other two just didn’t see it, though they could see a Chromecast HD and other devices on the LAN). It worked really well, though! I was able to run the Wyze app on the tablet and see everything on the larger TV screen via the Roku, including doing a 4-camera group view in landscape mode.
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I’ve done that with my iPad and mirrored it to a Roku device connected to the TV. I just wanted to see if it worked and it did.
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Google TV is a cut-down version of Android. What I had before was a full-fledged Android device. But it had an old version of Android and the current Wyze app won’t install on it.
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So is Android Go, but it still runs the Wyze app, and that’s what I was able to connect to a Roku Express. Thanks for the additional information!
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I recently bought a Google TV and found there must be different versions or like you say, a light version. I couldn’t get directly to the PlayStore like I could with an old Android TV. The Android TV actually allowed me to install any android app, including Wyze.
I returned the Google TV.
Yeah, I have an old Android TV bow as well, that I used to be able to get to the Google store, not anymore 
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That’s pretty cool. If I go into the settings on my television, it reports its “Android TV OS version” and has a Play Store facility that I can navigate to (though I find that it’s often easier to install apps via “push” from Google Play Store on a phone or in a browser to the TV, if the app shows that it’s compatible with and can be installed on the TV). I don’t understand all the marketing/labeling nuance, which I think can get confusing, but my device definitely says “Google TV” on its home screen and shows a Google TV splash screen when rebooting. It’s not the deprecated “Google TV” platform that was apparently retired a number of years ago, but using the same label for different things certainly isn’t helpful. (Thanks, Google.)
If your recent Google TV purchase was of recent manufacture, then I would’ve expected it to essentially be an Android device, though that doesn’t mean it’s possible to install every Android app on it, and I imagine it’s like what was suggested in a different topic. I haven’t ever tried side-loading anything on the TV. 
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