A wall mounted tablet that you can plug directly into an outlet would be nice.
Tablet Flush Mount | Makes by Mike makes a nice kit. Its nice not seeing wires.
If Wyze can pull off a tablet with live streaming and control all of the smart things they offer it could be a hit.
any idea on yearly pricing? Im sure Wyze is aware of the market being around $100 a year with unlimited cameras + a longer video storage time and warranty.
Yes this is a must!
All other home monitoring systems use the IQ Panel and customized to that vendor
I wish Wyze would concentrate more on the safety and security aspect of the smart home rather than watches, vacuums, scales, headphones, and lawn sprinkler modules. Who has a lawn sprinkler? I know some of you do, but everyone has a home to protect. Wyze started on the home security path with their awesome cameras at an affordable price point. Now it seems they have put their money and attention on household items that have nothing to do with home security when they should focus on their core market with water sensors, door sensors, and a full-blown security system.
Wyze has always been more along the line of a Smart Home Device provider. I don’t recall them stating their goal was home security. Their About Page gives the companies goal in detail.
It’s our goal to become the most customer-centric smart home technology company.
As we grow, we will continue to launch high quality, affordable smart home products that enrich people’s lives and make great technology accessible to everyone.
It’s short sighted if you don’t think home security is part of home automation.
When your first products look like home security products, you’re home security. Doesn’t mean your limited to that.
Whatever your mission statements says doesn’t matter when it comes to product quality , whether home automation or security… if you’re going to produce a product, produce it with quality. As an example, Wyze sense is unreliable. One of the latest issues- if a battery dies in a door sensor, the sensor is toast. Come on here! You spread yourselves too thin to too many products without great quality control, you’ll loose in the end.
Why will it be required to have the monitoring service? I currently use an Abode system along with my Wyze cams, and the Amazon Alexa. It does everything that I want it to do, while I understand that some people will want the monitoring, there are some that won’t want it. At least make it an optional service.
Agree , it would be nice to have both self monitor with the option of professionally monitored.
Wyze sense v2 definitely can’t come soon enough, v1 is no longer available for a reason.
For a security camera, what would one use? I can use my V3 but without the PIR motion detection on that, I get a ton of false motion based on things like car headlights turning my corner, or leaves blowing across my lawn.
Better door sensors which I know are in the works. small enough to fit on the windows without being intrusive would be great. I can drill out a door to hide them but a window is harder.
NAS-maxdrive was canceled, would be great to have a back up system in place that would keep recording if network is lost.
Sad about the loss of Maxdrive.
Uh is there no cellular backup…? Why have a battery backup (if power is out, so is internet) if it cannot communicate to the monitoring center in the first pace? That’s going to cause people to not choose this if there is no backup for power and internet loss.
There will be thousands of home security enthusiasts like me who use own DSC/Honewell security systems at home and have hard wired several (no battery and fail safe) sensors to the central unit. And the central unit will be exposed through EnvisaLink and or Hub6 to a monitoring company.
It will be nice if you could integrate with either EnvisaLink or Hub6 to get the existing sensor readings into your Home Monitoring unit. All this will be just software level updates and can be configured remotely at your end - just asking the user to provide details about the EnvisaLink or Hub6 which is already connected to the internet.
Like many people I have a house with a built-in alarm system that has sensors built in all over the house. I would like to install a Wyze home monitoring system with cameras and motion detectors AND A CONTACT CLOSURE DETECTOR so that I can slave the many existing sensors to the Wyze system. All that would be required is a simple Wyze contact slosure sensor that could be monitored. A tiny bit of additional hardware would allow me to sense when the existing system has an alarm. Without such integration I will have to stick with my existing built-in system.
I’m not in for a debate. Its only my personal opinion.
Not many doorbells looks as good, with excellent 2K resolution and feels solid like a eufy Cam can be easily replaced by a wyze doorbell. It will be nice if you could allow users to add their choice of DoorBell or DoorLock with cam to the home monitoring system.
There are devices out there like EnvisaLink and Hub6 which will integrate with existing Honeywell/DSC boards (which are basically the majority of alarm systems installed over 5 yrs ago). These devices will expose the sensor status over the local IP and that should be enough for Wyze to read and utilize.
@psl Yes, I’d like to see this, too. Like a 4 input module sharing the same radio, antenna. Currently have SimpliSafe system. Soldered a pair of wires in parallel with the normally open magnetic reed switch to make it a contact sensor. Stuck them above the old alarm system and has been working great.
Would also be nice to have an output device. A small relay (dry contact) controlled by alarm system +/or an un-Sensor modeule.
Idea: Allow the system state of WHM to control if a camera group records or not
Use case: Set up several Wyzecams but you don’t want them recording you inside all the time. As part of WHM you can choose a camera group to toggle recording for.
I’ve been looking at the home monitoring solution, but one problem with me finally dumping ADT is that the magnetic entry sensors are really wide.
Any chance of a skinny sensor? ADT have the “slimline door/window sensor” - the one I have many of - which also uses an AAA cell, but manages to be a fraction of the width:
ADT slimline: 3" x 0.5" x 0.8", AAA powered
Wyze sensor: 2.1" x 1.7" x 0.7", AAA powered
…the width is the problem (1.7" vs 0.5") as it gets in the way of a window shade otherwise.
Current system keypad (Guardian) has a single button to call police, another for ambulance, another for fire dept. This is an important feature to my wife. Any chance of adding these 3 buttons to the Keypad of the of Home Monitoring system?