Perhaps the biggest innovation Wyze could bring to a smart switch is to simply make one that is smaller in volume.
If you’ve ever installed a smart switch, you’ve no doubt noted they are quite a bit larger in volume than the light switch they replace. That’s fine if you have a standard size box with only one cable coming in and another going up, but if you find a situation as I recently did where there are 4 cables involved (because the builders of your home used the switch boxes as junction boxes), things get more interesting. With one box, the only solution was to buy and use a box extender.
This will be epic, if Wyze launch single pole and 3 way switch, wyze’s smart home ecosystem will be unbeatable with the cheap sensors and LAN control. Right now controlling light switches with ifttt is wayyyyy to slow to be practical.
Wish Wyze could develop smart wall switch over WiFi,
Single pole, 3-way and 4-way smart switches.
Would be nice to control lights with rules, and remote control or timer settings.
I hate to move away from wyze, i have there bulbs, plugs and cams but i need switches. looks like i will try another companies switch and see how much of a hassle it is having multiple apps.
I’ve been thinking of adding smart switches to my home. Been looking at Wemo for months now but I’m still holding off until Wyze come out with their own. I just saw today that the TP-Link smart switch and dimmer is on sale on Bbuy for $16.99… now I’m torn if I should go with TP-Link. I don’t want another app on my phone but I can’t wait any longer.
I’ve been wishing for a simple on / off switch to mount on the wall that can pair with an existing Wyze bulb, for situations when you just want to walk into a room and turn a light on, with a switch instead of your mobile device. It would be cool if it had the option to either be battery or plug powered.
Would love for you guys to over light switches and light dimmers. Currently use Insteon with UD and it is so complicated to replace them when they go bad.
Agreed. Non-neutral wire devices (e.g. Lutron Casseta) require special bulbs so they are low enough restivity when the switch and bulb is off. Otherwise turning off the power to the light fixture also cuts power to the switch. Some bulbs don’t go all the way off when switch is off. Some even oscillate. Don’t get me wrong, for the most part they work great. But common wire switches can remove that hassle of trying to find the right bulbs that are just inneficient(leaky) enough. If you had a switch that did both, you’d have a very versatile product.
I love the Wyze brand and its products. I would love to rewire my whole house with Wyze smart light switches. If I could just buy a big bundle of 3-way, dimming switches, I’d put them in everywhere. Many of my lights are 3-way (two light switches in two locations), and I want the option to dim them all (which is great for making scenes). I realize 3-way dimmers may be difficult, but I’m sure Wyze can figure it out. I have the Lutron Caseta installed in one room, and I get 3-way dimming because the 2nd switch (Pico) is really a remote control for the main dimmer. I haven’t installed any more Caseta switches because they are way too expensive and I don’t like the lots-of-little-buttons interface. I’d prefer a big rocker/toggle, like the TP-Link Kasa switches.
I would love to see Wyze Smart Switches on the market, but I will say that I would like to see a Wyze Hub before the switch, so that all the Wyze products can connect to that hub and be managed there, as well as any/all Automation. Hopefully the bridge for the Door Lock and/or Doorbell Cam are the start of that bridge.
But with switches they will always be powered so WiFi connection would work just fine. I hub would only really be needed if they went with another connection technology like z-wave or another lower power technology.
I refuse to buy smart bulbs because they are so limited, My fixtures vary from hardly used incandescent to some that are highly specialized and remotely located. The smart wall switch would need a relay for absolute control to make it load agnostic. Hello smart fan switch… Perhaps a second version could be offered with a triac output for dimming capability. I would definitely replace all my off-brand smart wall switches with a 3-way Wyze version for common app control and functional integration. Simple and affordable is a beautiful thing. I have Wyze smart plugs and love them, but now have a case of pattern completion syndrome! And I also have 25 year old X10s that come out at Christmas and a Wyze wall switch would eliminate them too. RIP BSR X10.
Why have a smart switch? You can eliminate the switch completely with their bulb? Eventually everything will be controlled via phones anyway. What I would like to see is different wattage bulbs. The existing 60 watt replacements don’t dim down low enough imo.
What I don’t see disappearing is outlets. We need actual wifi outlets, Not these bulky add-on plug-in outlets. That’s what is needed.
Please fix the fact that when I type on Android that the screen is behind the qwerty board while typing. I couldn’t get it to move up either. Your a tech company right…come on
The reason for a wifi controlled switch is so that one can control the operation of lights that are not replaceable with bulbs, tube fluorescent lights for example. Or switch’s that control lights that are to far from a stable wifi connection