Is this device even supported anymore?

[carverofchoice]

I don’t have one of these myself, at least not yet, so pardon my ignorance on anything I don’t understand with these. I just wanted to share the following:

For the watch Faces, there is a guy on Wyze Discord Server, User: Revo#2354 who LOVES to make people custom watch faces by request, and I believe he even started hosting a bunch of them on a free website. Lots of people ask him to make them, customize and change them a little and he’s been pretty accommodating.

As for Wyze’s future intentions with the Watch, I am not intending to speak for or on behalf of Wyze in anyway, but the Wyze VP of product recently said this in an AMA this summer related to things like the watch:

@carverofchoice

What’s Wyze’s Product Positioning in the Market?

Yes, this is a key question for us. For me on the hardware side, I tend to talk about the “3 C’s” with my team: Cameras, Comfort, and Control. So you can see that things like our new air purifier fall into the Comfort category, and the new Lock Bolt falls into Control. Where I struggle are items like the updated Scale X we just released. This isn’t a connected product in the traditional Wi-Fi-always-on kind of way and doesn’t cleanly fall into one of the above categories, but it sells well and helps new users discover the rest of our products, so we’re committed to advancing this lineup. Products like the Watch, which end up being fashion accessories, have been too crowded and complex for us to make significant traction in, so you’ll see less investment in these “Lifestyle” product lines as we continue to refine our focus back on these three core areas.

Please note, to be clear, the Wyze watch is still officially supported, and is not listed as EOL (End of Life), so I am not in any way implying anything specific about the current watches since they are still an active product.

But as suggested here, Wyze had already announced their intention to reduce bringing out very many future products that aren’t directly related to Cameras, Comfort, and Home Connectivity. The VP also discussed in the same AMA that it has been his intention to “raise the bar on product quality,” specifically with their core products. They released TONS of stuff in 2021, but I noticed that in 2022 they started switching back to keeping things within their core of Cameras, Comfort, and Connected home again. There weren’t vacuums, night lights, Wyze cars, floor lamps, etc. like there were in 2021. The VP has been shifting the priorities and revising things. It would be great to see some of that get moved to adding new features to things like the Wyze watch, but I don’t have specific info on that.

On the bright side, with the VP saying he’s going to avoid producing future lifestyle products (new watch models, etc), it means that Wyze doesn’t have plans to replace the current watches with an updated newer model, so they’re likely to extend the life/support of these for longer since they’re probably going to be the last watches they consider for the foreseeable future.

Anyway, just wanted to share some info I had. Like I said, I don’t speak for or represent Wyze, I just keep track of things that have been said publicly related to various things. It would be nice if the VP’s new goals for raising the bar on quality leads to them providing a few new updates on the watch as requested.