They refer to adding chimes in the ad on the WYZE site.
You can place the Wyze chime outside and use Amazon Echo or Google Home devices as chimes.
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With the news google released 2 months ago, it better…
Just pre-ordered! Looking forward to it, although not to happy that it’s gonna ship in January…
Did it charge you right away or no?
Yup, the must be tight on funds…
I don’t know what Google news you ard referring to but the current cameras don’t display on Google devicrs very well.
I was about to order one, but then I saw this
" > Will my mechanical chime still work after installing the doorbell?
No, your existing chime won’t work.
The existing chime will be bypassed so that the power can be used for your Wyze Video Doorbell."
That completely defeats it then. We have more than 1 doorbell.
Oh well.
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This Google news: It was announced that Google was going to allow better access to Google Assistant for other 3rd party doorbell devices now, including allowing announcements that someone (in general, or a specific person) is at the door. Wyze should have no problem bringing some nest doorbell features with this to displays and speakers.
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Oh please. They’ve always done it this way.
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We’ll see I suppose. It hasn’t helped their current cameras yet. 
Yup, hope Wyze takes advantage and fixes it, it’s been months now…
I was originally looking for more information on additional chime units. But then I got to thinking…
"When Doorbell pressed, announce on all Alexa devices ‘Someone is at the door…’ "
No need for more chime units!
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Have the beta testers reported whether they did anything to improve video startup time? With the V2s it takes somewhere between 4 seconds and Never for the app to open the camera and start the stream. Often closer to 10 seconds when it works. That is too long to answer a doorbell in real time. Is the doorbell any faster, in part maybe because you can skip the P2P handshake in most cases since you’ll be local? Is it any more reliable in this regard?
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Just before midnight on 6/5/20 Google updated “The Google Assistant developer documentation” with some information that indicated doorbell and styler device types, will soon be supported widely. Apparently it was meant to be kept mostly confidential for invite-only developer access to know about and use the changes at first, and they tried to cover up some of the leak, but screenshots are forever.
Basically, they indicated that they are going to allow all third-party developers (not just Nest or limited pay to play special companies) to connect their video doorbells to google assistant and be able to do things like visitor announcements.
Here’s 9to5Google mentioning it
Though others have also discussed how some recent changes should be making it better and easier for 3rd parties to connect with and leverage Google Home devices.
Nests and some other devices connect flawlessly, but others can’t connect to Google home well because of the way Google has it set up, but apparently they are now looking to make things better for 3rd party providers of video doorbells, if not more.
That is indicative of “hope” that connections and options could get better now that Google demonstrated caring about other devices working well too so that Alexa doesn’t dominate the market by working better for everything.
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Why 1080p but only 15-20 frames a second? Makes no sense at all. If you plan on enabling 2K later surely 1080p can support higher frame rates. Unless maybe your planning on releasing the 2K update with 7-10fps. 30 really is a minimum now days. 60 is ideal. I would rather pay $5-10 more for a device with marginally better specs.
I love how cheap these devices are but there is a whole chasm between $30 Wyze and a $100-200 Ring. Plenty of wiggle room. Anything under $50 would have been a stunning hit in the doorbell arena.
Ugh. Why Wyze, why? This doorbell is useless if you don’t have existing wiring. I’m actually looking at the Ring peephole cam now. I’ve waited this long just to be let down.
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If I wanted to have a Wyze door bell on both the back and front doors, can one Wyze chime support both door bells? If so will Wyze sell just the door bell?
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That’s very possible. One chime can be shared with two doorbells. But I don’t know if Wyze is gonna sell doorbell only. The standard retail package is a doorbell with chime for $29.99. However, I think Wyze will sell additional chimes. For example, I want two chimes. One each on main and upper…
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The video doorbell I have works with Alexa also and with 5 echo dots around the house I know when someone pushes the doorbell button 
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