I just received an email from Roku advertising smart cams, doorbells, lighting, etc. The items look exactly like Wyze products. Has Wyze partnered with Roku to sell Wyze products under the Roku name?
Yes, however they are not āWyzeā brand products. They are a different product. The two product lines will not work together.
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And why are the roku products cheaper than wyze? Should we dump our wyze products and jump to roku"
You might want to do a bit more digging into their device, cam, app & subscription features before you make a decision solely based on the shelf price of the hardware. The hardware is just the gateway into the ecosystem. You are buying much more than a cam in a box when it comes to IoT. They could give it away free and it would still be worth what you paid if isnāt properly supported.
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Wonder if Roku supports dark mode in its Cam App? 
So if Iām hearing this right, we should not expect our Wyze cams to work natively on a Roku streaming device anytime soon, if ever? I was really hoping that they would start playing well together.
Is there a hardware limitation on the current Wyze cams that would prohibit streaming them to Roku devices? I canāt imagine there is. So thereās hope that there will be a Wyze app on Roku at some point? Or that they Wyze cams might work on whatever the Roku cams are using at some point?
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Currently, we were informed that the Roku FW will not Work on Wyze Devices and Wyze FW will not work on Roku Devices. In addition, these are two separate products which are unique to those vendors.
But anything could happen as this commercial partnership grows.
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Hope it grows really fast
Yah, been seeing those ROKU/un-Wyze products more and more frequently, even at Bestbuy and Walmart.
Seems like the situation is ripe for customer confusion.
So Wyze apparently has not grown big enough/influential enough to lock down its industrial design with its supplier-manufacturers?
It would be one thing for a podunk Chinesium brand to sell identical looking products, but surely ROKU would honor Wyze IP protections, if they exist, no?
If you read this thread, you will see that Wyze has agreed to allow Roku to use their cameras.
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As @IEatBeans states this is a commercial partnership between Wyze and Roku.
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What thread? What Iām reading above says the two are not compatible. What kind of āpartnershipā is that? Seems like half-baked market/brand chaos and confusion.
FYI, all I did was search āROKU cameraā in the forum and this thread came up.
What am I missing?
It is in this thread:
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Cameras, Doorbells, Lights, Plugsā¦ all Rokuā¦
Try to explain to Grandma why the Roku Camera she picked up all Walmart wonāt work with the Wyze System she has in place, and that she now has to use two apps on her phone for fundamentally the same hardware.
IMO, this ācheapensā the Wyze brand.
At first I thought it was just the V3 Camsā¦ appears Wyze has ālicensedā much of the product line:
I was surprised to see to see the Video Doorbell made it over to the Roku side of the āhouseā, Iād think that product would of been retired in favor of the Video Doorbell Proā¦ aka the Roku Wire-free Video Doorbell SE
Iām sure Wyze is making money on this adventure, perhaps that money will pay the salary for the developers that will finally make my iPad Pro 12.9" work natively in Landscape Mode, and not have to rely upon Appleās Stage Manager to use the Wyze app in Landscape modeā¦
SJ
Grandmaā¦ '64 Chevy Impala parts donāt fit on your '64 Buick LeSabre. The cars look similar, but itās whatās under the hood that matters. Same for your new cams.
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Thatās such a cop-out. Circling the wagons for the companyās sake doesnāt change that the look is EXACTLY the same so the typical non-researching John Q Consumer will think they are compatible, and why wouldnāt they? By the way, lots of Impala parts work on other Chevy, Pontiac, Oldsmobile cars so your analogy is weak at best and misguided at least.
Since youāre on a tangentā¦ true storyā¦ last year Grandma picked up a head of cabbage for Tday coleslaw, made it the day before. No one ate the slimy lettuce concoction.
No. The internals are not cross-compatible.
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Replying to a two-year old message? I hate when I reply to something that happened years ago.