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@ervin_pall

Wyze smoke & carbon monoxide alarm

Go vote for it below, but don’t get your hopes up that this is coming this year. They listed this as maybe later, and have said this year they aren’t going to make many exceptions to camera products besides a few things they’d already basically had mostly ready prior to their decision to focus on cameras (and app improvement) this year:

Wyze Smoke/CO Detector

Would love to see Wyze add a smoke/carbon monoxide detector. There are not that many good options in the market. Nest Protects are good but very expensive.

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@ervin_pall

Wyze band 2.0

Don’t plan on it. The VP had the following to say regarding lifestyle products like Watch/Band:

@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.

I don’t think they plan to do anymore of those, and definitely not this year as explained above.

I am hoping for the smoke and CO sensors though! I plan to bring this back up with them again next year once this “Year of the camera” is over. For now, we kind of have a workaround with all the cameras supporting sound detection of other smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and can then send an alert to our phone when the camera hears those sounds.