Wyze Sense Hub and Base Station in One
I wish Wyze would combine the Base Station and Sense Hub into one unit so that I can connect all my devices into one hub especially for folks signed up for Home Monitoring service.
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Nothing would be better than a smart hub on my tv where I can control all my cameras and connected devices. Just saying, I have a huge screen that is already the center of each room in most housesā¦
Iāll start by saying that more than 60% of devices in my network are Wyze devices.
These devices may or may not be regularly updated, being a security risk, an extra effort to manage them in the network, a bottleneck in some cases, incompatible in others.
A Network Hub that creates an ad hoc network for Wyze devices would solve many of these issues.
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Demise of Insteon leaves me nervousā¦
As a long-time user of MANY Insteon devices, Iām left very nervous about purchasing more Cloud connected device from any company, even Wyze. Does Wyze have any plans to develop a āHubā to allow Cloud independent control of Wyze devices and/or adopt an industry standard similar to Matter?
Cannot speak to the development of a hub, but I have seen where Wyze is participating in the Matter Standards, which is a good thing.
Kind of sad how Insteon just shut down without notice to their customers. Although we cannot predict the future and I understand your concern, I believe Wyze to be a reputable company and am not concerned about the same thing happening. IMHO
So was Insteon until it wasnātā¦
I too believe Wyze is a reputable company. Iām sure given their openness regarding their financial problems last year that they will give us plenty of warning. That said, my concern is that if Wyze should find their business model to be unsustainable thus forcing a shutdown, Iād be stuck with a third set of ābricksā (I already have much $$$ tied up in useless Iris and now Insteon devices).
True, I know a lot of individuals who had Insteon. Sad they did not even give a notice.
If youāre nervous about what happened with Insteon, and who isnāt to some degree as they arenāt the first and they definitely wonāt be the last, then buy equipment that doesnāt run on proprietary standards as well as rely 100% on cloud connections.
Iāve been a Wyze supporter for quite some time, and while I love the gear Iāve got from Wyze, I will probably be moving on from their cameras, switches, and other actual smart home gear because it is not developed on an open standard (like Zigbee or Zwave) and it requires a connection to the internet to do anything. Wyze is a great way to get started into Smart Home tech, what they sell, for the price they sell it at, is great. Youāll never hear me say otherwise. HOWEVER. it doesnāt scale, I canāt create rules that when I arm Home Monitoring turn off the lights. No 4k Cameras. etc. itās nothing against Wyze, itās the evolution of what I am trying to do.
Oh, and to the question that was asked about a āWyze Hubā, double check, but I believe they rebranded the old Home Monitoring to Sense Hub 2.0 when they launched Cam Plus Pro.
I too was caught in the Iris shutdown, that is how I originally found Wyze. Iris refunded everything I had purchased that could not be moved to another platform. So I was refunded for cameras that would no longer work, but all my other Iris things are still in use with a SmartThings hub.
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Product Request: Wyze Home Hub/ Wyze Sense Hub PRO
Greetings all!
I had the idea earlier today that Wyze should make a sort of hub for general smart home control. It would be something similar to the Google Nest Hub, just specific to Wyze products. The idea is that it would appeal to more serious Wyze users, the ones who, like me, own lights, cameras, sensors and the like all around their property.
To put a twist on the idea, however, the product could lean more to the side of being a Wyze Sense Hub PRO, something that contains a touchscreen and simple UI for accessing, controlling, or managing all Wyze devices. Its main purpose would be a more serious version of the current Wyze Sense Hub, but it could also have the ability to control other Wyze devices, like the Robot Vacuum, Garage Door Controller, etc. I donāt believe settings integration would be necessary for these products, just the ability to view them or use their basic functions. On top of that, it could contain a camera itself so that, if you walk through your front hallway where itās mounted, itāll record a video, just like other home security systems.
Altogether, this product would be a very premium product that would be an available upgrade to the Wyze Sense Hub.
Thanks for your consideration!
I agree with the general idea of a smart home hub. However, for broader adoption (and in anticipation of the pending Matter protocol), Iām thinking that the hub should at the very least support Matter protocol. I would prefer if it supported connections with as many smart home products as possible. It would be wonderful to have a hub to control all devices from that is compatible with Wyze products. There are plenty of hubs on the market (SmartThings, Hubitat etc.) but non are easily used with Wyze products. Letās have a hub Wyzeā¦ please and thank you.
Nice idea !
For much faster response time and dependability, to be able to run the Wyze switch, plugs and light bulbs locally through the Wyze Sense V2 hub.
Stop hogging all my outlets, we need a Hubā¦
Iām increasingly frustrated with the amount of different base stations Iām having to plug in around my house to make my Wyze devices work. A lot of us early adopters have been excited to see the product lines grow, but there doesnāt seem to be any logical progression of an eco systemā¦ Instead it seems weāre just getting a lot of one-off products thrown out into the Wyze shop in a haphazard manner.
Why do I have a different controller for my home monitoring, my video doorbell pro, and my door lockā¦It seems logical to me that there should be some sort of a base station for the Wyze eco system.
I was considering buying a lock/doorbell combo for my back door, but the idea of having to find somewhere to plug two more base stations in has prevented me from moving forward.
Am I missing something in the roadmap that will bring these products together in a way that makes sense?
Donāt hold your breath. Wyze simply will not respond to this suggestion, and I know you and I arenāt the only people who think it is ridiculous not to use a hub. Any smart home has the potential to have limitations on the number of connectionsā¦in my case, my internet is via cellular router (hotspot). I migrated to Simplisafe when putting in security on my new home. I will just leave my Wyze behind with the new suckerā¦err, owner.
In addition, all these individual devices are eating up my routerās ip addresses. Iāve already had to upgrade it once to a unit with the ability to support 50 devices simultaneouslyā¦
I am hopeful there is someone with a little foresight and they are pushing Wyze to work on a hubā¦ in my fantasy world they are waiting to release with a MATTER announcementā¦ but alas Iām a realist and like @PNGento Iām not holding my breathā¦