I think Xiaomi is the manufacturer in this case (for the RoboVac).
I went with Wyze because they keep prices down and I am familiar with the hardware used. Wyze’s firmware/software is also more trustworthy (over China OEM), but I still keep everything on a guest network to be safe and don’t use indoor cameras.
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This is not accurate. Wyze is a purely US BASED company. This has been addressed many times by Wyze.
Like other companies, they have various suppliers (yes, more than one, and believe it or not, not all in China as I discovered when I audited the public shipping ledgers). And while many of Wyze’s hardware suppliers or business partnerships are based in China, they are separate, and Wyze maintains full control over their server, Firmware, software, etc in the USA, not China.
There is no persona…