Back in 2018 you had a post asking for Home Assistant Integration that received nearly 2000 votes, and you tagged with “Maybe Later”. Well, it has been 7 years since that post. and I guess “Maybe Later means over our dead bodies”.
Please Wyze, do yourself and all your users a favor and allow Wyze Products to Integrate with one of the largest Open Source (FREE) Home automation systems on the planet.
I know that on your roadmap to world dominance you have planned your own Eco System and you feel that you want to be like Apple, well even Apple has HomeKit and they link to Home Assistant. Do you know that sales of your products would increase dramatically around the world, if they could be used on Home Assistant? Millions of people that use Home Assistant steer clear of Wyze because of the issues using workarounds to make them work with HA. Now imagine that Wyze makes it products compatible natively with HA, at your low prices you will sell out of most products. So please reconsider and take the fact that 7 years ago around 2000 of your customers wanted this, now it would be more likely to be over 10K.
On the bright side, Wyze announced they are working on implementing RTSP on most of their cams now with the first batch of Beta testing anticipated to launch in October. That will allow camera streams into Home Assistant.
I hope they also add some other features to be able to be imported, maybe through MQTT, or HTTP or even support ONVIF.
It looks like Wyze is partially waiting for the Matter Camera libraries to be released this fall before deciding how to move forward. From their AMA at the end of August:
I don’t think they’ll be ready to give any definitives on new integrations until the Matter camera libraries are finalized and launched and they can then convene to decide what to plan for their roadmap.
My expectation and timeline is roughly as follows:
- Matter Camera Libraries are released by December 2025 (hopefully sooner).
- Wyze decides how to move forward
- Do they only support future cams?
- Do they add support to existing legacy cameras that are capable of the new large libraries and resource requirements?
- Do they build a Matter Bridge for legacy devices?
- Do they add support for other devices besides cameras?
- Should they still build a direct Home Assistant Integration, or would it be a total waste of time since adding Matter already makes things integrate well with Home Assistant? Redundancy may be wasteful.
- What amount of priority should be pushed for any of the above decisions?
- Their roadmap is usually planned 6-12 months in advance,
- So do they just schedule the updates for 6-12 months away?
- Is that when they START working on it, or when they want it to be completed?
- Do they scrap everything currently on the roadmap and how much of a loss will they take doing that?
And Matter support is automatically Home Assistant Support. Anything that supports matter will be fully supported by Home Assistant. So that will also lead to what we want.
There are a lot of things to consider, and their implementation will take some development time. I’ve been guessing for a while that we might start to see some Matter stuff within a year of whenever the CSA finally releases the Matter Camera Libraries. It sounds like the CSA finally stopped their in-fighting on cameras (this caused some delays) enough to get it ready to launch this fall. That means sometime within 2026 I expect to see Wyze at least start to implement their first Matter products finally, see how well that performs, and if it is well received, they will probably expand more in 2027.
I still think they should make a direct Home Assistant Integration so that they can bring in a ton of other entities the cameras and other devices have that Matter doesn’t support [yet], but I don’t think they’re willing to entertain the rationales for that until after they have the full details on Matter and are able to see how that goes. Then we’ll have a better case to make to convince them to support Home Assistant.
Believe me, I don’t let them forget Home Assistant. I constantly bring it up with all the employees when I talk with them, and I bring it up in almost every AMA if someone else doesn’t. I hound them about it more than anyone, guaranteed. I think their lack of Home Assistant Support is their number one flaw. Second would be cloud dependency, or maybe failing to give access to local Edge AI detection free on their cameras like many competitors are doing. I think they are making some steps in the right direction though with finally agreeing to massively support RTSP on most of their cams, and telling us they are actively evaluating Matter and just waiting for it to launch for cameras so they can finally decide how to procede. Those are acceptable steps for me. I wish the timeline was faster, but at least they’re being somewhat reasonable instead of completely dismissive.
Thanks for getting back to me with this explanation, I certainly hope that Wyze adopt Matter into their products, because I would start to buy them again, The issue I had was I have a lot of Wyze products, but when I found Home Assistant I was not able to bring any of them into HA without using some unreliable HACS workarounds, which relied on certain Firmware. So, I switched to Eufy for my recent Cameras and other manufacturers that work with Home Assistant for locks and sensors. I love the new Wyze Palmprint lock but cannot buy it until either Matter is built-in or it links to HA natively over Wifi or some other protocol. I will keep watching to see if Wyze integrates Matter in all future products, if so, they will win me back as a customer.
We have questions about the new lock getting matter in the future in the AMA that should be happening today. Fully they answer that question.
I am planning to use the new Palm lock and get it into home assistant one way or another. I know that Wyze has an Alexa integration for it, and I have Alexa integrated into home assistant already too. So for me, at the worst case, I will just create some binary home assistant entities that I exposed to Alexa, and have Alexa match them with the Palm lock. Then I will have pretty immediate updates in home assistant for the lock and even be able to control it from home assistant too. While that is still a workaround, it’s one I’m willing to accept through Alexa.