Why is there still no integration with Home Assistant?

[carverofchoice]

I agree with you. Just over 2 years ago Wyze found the following:

@mulliken

this integration is used by between 1,000-10,000 individual HA instances. This number is increasing steadily; however, it is still a tiny fraction of the multiple millions of people who use their services. Even though we are such a small percentage of their userbase, we account for over 50% of the traffic to their servers. This amounts to a tangible cost (monetarily for Wyze) and usability effect on the rest of their users.

So despite being a small part, we are an important part.

I would also recommend reading the latest update on what they most recently said about Home Assistant a week ago. I posted a copy here in the wishlist thread:

Home Assistant Integration

Just to update this Wishlist, I pushed Wyze REALLY hard for Home Assistant Integration during the last AMA. It was the second most voted-on question in the AMA but despite my strong hardball question, I’m afraid the news is not very positive: They said in a separate post that they intend for the “Year of the Camera” to continue into 2024 and that next year will have a huge focus on AI: I don’t disagree with most of what was said above. I agree that AI is going to play a major part in the s…

I pushed them on it as hard as I could. They did say they are “happy to look into it more” but will probably devote their resources to other things.

They said they want to focus on AI, because whoever wins with AI will win with the Smart Home and I think that’s great, but here is my problem with that…you can have the absolute best AI in the world and best smart home AI in the world for the smart home, but if your smart home is limited because your whole focus is cameras, who’s going to even care when they can’t do much useful with it because Wyze doesn’t connect to matter, doesn’t connect to home assistant, and aren’t expanding their smart home ecosystem with any other devices, so their AI won’t even be able to do much useful. At least that’s how I see it. I love they said they are going to focus on AI, but it’s worthless without an awesome large smarthome ecosystem. I bet Home Assistant will come out with an opensource AI, and even if it’s not as advanced as Wyze’s, it will be able to do a ton more because it can connect to everything and do everything. Right now, Wyze’s will be very limited with no integrations and few smart home products and few new ones coming out. I believe that will be a pain point they will learn eventually.