The Devices tab is NOT functionally the same. In the previous version you would add devices to a group, then they would disappear from the list because they were nested into the group. Everything was nice, tidy, and organized.
Now on the devices tab, the app displays the groups AND all of your devices in a flat list that only allows you to move one item at a time. Between home and work I have over 60 individual devices , and 10 groups in my list. It’s a nightmare, because there is no ability to sort, or filter. At the very least, there needs to be filter options with checkboxes that allow you to show or hide all of the different types of devices including groups. Better yet, the groups could have their own tab instead of being lumped into the devices tab where the only way to tell the difference is the tiny icon looks a bit different.
The Favorites tab is completely unusable with this many devices. I had to remove everything in order for the app to function properly because (as many people have mentioned) it attempts to stream everything at once. An incident occurred where an an entire group of devices was accidentally shut off because of the little power button added to the objects listed on the favorites screen. What a horrible thing… To tap on a device group and accidentally turn of production devices because the power icon takes up 25% of the objects tap area. Needless to say, every object that presents a power button icon needs to also present the user the ability to disable the power function for that object specifically. That or remove the feature altogether and force the user to first tap on the device, then tap on a power icon that then presented.
The new app likely works just swell for some folks connected to less than 10 devices. It might even be pretty awesome to use some of these features as the developers had originally intended. However, the reality is that usability has been reduced compared to the previous version and a wide variety of new issues have been introduced while a plethora of persistent issues still remain in the Wyze ecosystem. Wyze needs to stop saturating the market with just-barely functioning devices and half-baked application changes, and fix what they have already developed and sold to customers. The more Wyze devices you have in your environment, the more time is spent troubleshooting a dizzying array of issues. These egregiously underperforming devices and application updates need to be slowed down and have more thought put into the impact it will have on customers.