Yes switches!
Wyze needs to go after the Lutron Caseta dimmer switches. They work even WITHOUT a neutral wire so can be used with older wiring.
Sometimes you want to walk around your house without lights going on following you, and with sleeping kids or other reasons you don’t want to have to “talk to” every room to turn on the lights.
Switches are well adopted and easier in many scenarios.
Note: Lutron switches do it right where it’s a button an not a physical switch.
I single and or double light switch for rooms with chandeliers or odd size light bulbs. Also would be more feasible with multi bulb fixtures.
I would agree with you there. I have Lutron Caseta dimmers and they are awesome. Super easy to install and they were done well. The Google Assistant integration is perfect and no neutral wire required. If they can mimic this at like a $20 priceline, I’d switch for sure.
I would like to see a new Wyze product Smart Switch. I have few of the use cases which i can think of.
Please let me know if there is any roadmap for this. Also keep up the good work.
Yes, I bought, am using, and love the smart bulbs, and I just placed my order for the early access smart plug, and will use for certain things. But, I could literally see myself replacing all the switches in my house with smart switches. I will not switch out all the bulbs in my house though. If you want a product people will buy multiple’s of, produce a smart switch! Both in 2 and 3 way configurations.
Great uses! Here are a couple more:
The last few posts here indicate some use cases for which a smart plug (as opposed to a smart wall switch) would work. Just want to point out that the Wyze Smart Plug is in testing, coming very soon:
I am buying a couple smart plugs and am excited for them, but no, they can not be used in the situations I have mentioned above. That’s why a smart switch is a must have!
The achilles heel of a smart light bulb is that the power has to be on at the switch. If the switch is turned off it doesn’t matter how smart the bulb is, it won’t work. An affordable Wyze Smart Switch could transform all the regular non-smart bulbs to be smart and easily transform a room with one switch. A smart switch that integrates with all of the Wyze sensors and cameras would make it much easier to transform the whole house in a much more efficient solution. You add a smart bulb to areas where you would want the added features such as color temperature control etc. Dimming and non-dimming switch…if a no neutral solution can be figured out even better but not necessary to get started. Clearly a bit more involved in installation but nothing that can’t be overcome with the Wyze user community.
I am loving my smart bulbs and would like to continue to make the rest of my home “smart”, but as pointed out in the above comments a smart switch would round out Wyze’s IOT infrastructure… Is there a timeline on when this product might enter the pipeline?
No there isn’t. The topic will have to move from “maybe-later” to “researching”. Then it will have to move to the Roadmap as “in-development”. Finally it would move to “testing”. So there’s a long way to go and no way to know if or when it might happen.
More info:
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation!
I just got mine installed a couple weeks ago and would have bought Wyze in an instant… if they come out, I’d swap em for sureeee
I went with Moes brand, cause of reviews and also cause I wanted to use the Smart Life app since I have other stuff on there. Even though later I found out I could add them to my Google ecosystem so now I can use it either way, awesome…
This is a must to compete with the old but in my opinion still most versatile smarthome system…X10.
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I just bought Wyze Bulbs. The only downside is that if somebody pushes my light swift off. The bulb can’t be operated from the app anymore. If wyze made a smart switch. Even if the switch is physically turned off. It can still be turned back on with the app.
Would love to see a smart switch!!
I have smart bulbs in my daughters room and had the same issue. Without fail someone would turn the switch off out of habit and the lights would not work. I pulled the switch out, took the two black wires off the switch, put them together and then put the switch back in. The switch is now a dummy switch and the lights are always powered. Because of this however, I limit smart bulbs to lamps now.
Switch guards are great alternatives to keep power on your bulbs without disconnecting the the wires.
If you put a switch guard on it. You will need to share our the bulb with all your family or have a an Alexa to make it voice controlled. I think a smart switch is still the best way to go.
Agreed. I installed Gosund smart light switches a few weeks ago and I love them. They are very fast responding to the Smart Life app.
However, I think using a switch guard is the best way rather than disconnecting the light switch wires like the post mentions below.