I have had a Wyze watch since they first came out. I am on my second one and it is dying. Battery drain and double notifications. I am so disappointed that Wyze no longer makes these. Does anyone know of an inexpensive fitness tracker or fitness watch that allows Wyze notifications?
@carverofchoice do you know of any or a work around? I tried one fitness watch but couldn’t get Wyze notifications and that’s what I want the most.
I personally like my Pixel Watch 4, but you want inexpensive.
I remember hearing about this fitness tracker on a podcast. The specs says it gets smart notifications, so for under $20 might be worth a try. If it does not get notifications, maybe gift it to a family member.
Thank you!
I switched to this:
Excellent watch for the price. The Wyze notifications come through and even have a small thumbnail. Highly recommend.
Oh, thank you so much!!!
@krr1975 Sorry for the late reply (I was sleep-deprived and went to bed early). I agree with @Earl.Automation that Amazfit is a great option! I used several of their bands for a long time and they work pretty well. I like Amazfit. Depending on the model you get if you get one that is only showing you text, check some third-party middleware like “Notify for Amazfit” which usually allows a feature to extract images from notifications and send them to the watch/band.
Alternatively you could always look for a cheap 3rd party option that supports Wear OS. I have heard good results from people buying a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 used or refurbished for pretty cheap. The downside is the battery life not lasting as long as you’re used to.
I was wondering were you were as you have always been so kind to respond and help me! I am so very excited about the Amazfit and so appreciate the recommendation from @Earl.Automation I’m already checking into getting one!
Wow! Now that is a wonderful notification! Thank you!
Wow! Thanks Steven!
As far as models go, do you know if the Amazfit Active Fit 3 gives the wyze notifications? I have a work anniverary coming up and get up to a $150 personal gift and waws looking at this one to get but wanted to make sure I will get the Wyze notifications. As always, thanks for your help!
It’s been a while since I used an Amazfit now. Back when I did, I used 3rd party apps on my Android phone to push images to it. A popular one was “Notify for Amazfit & Zepp” which acts as an advanced notification proxy. It can grab notifications to the phone, including camera screenshots and then temporarily override your watch face to display the camera image as soon as motion is triggered.
But technically this is an unofficial workaround. I haven’t used in a few years now, so I can’t give you solid guarantees on anything, just tell you what I was doing in the past, and that was back when Wyze used static images, and they are now using dynamic previews that push rich and animated data packages to us as notifications. I haven’t tested this since it came out after I switched to use a wear OS device now.
Okay, thank you so much for the information!
I can’t thank you enough for putting me onto the Amazfit Active 2 watch! It works perfectly with Wyze notifications and no third party app is needed. As always, I do appreciate your help!
I saw you mentioned before that Wyze management responded that they would no longer produce new smartwatches. Could you please tell me the name of that administrator?
Thank you for the recommendation! It works great and I love it!
I think it’s been said in multiple live events and AMAs, but the most memorable to me off the top of my head was Steve McIrvin, VP of Product (at the time) a few years ago. He (and then others after him) said something about smart watches being a very difficult market to gain marketshare in and that they didn’t feel like they could be “disruptive” to the market and their efforts would be better spent elsewhere that they could be more impactful. The smart watch market already has so many low profit affordable options out there that is hard to compete and gain a foothold in that market. One of the only lifestyle products that they’ve had a lot of success with is the smart scales, so they plan to continue offering those, but would de-prioritize a lot of other lifestyle products.
Not saying it’s totally off the table, but pretty unlikely to see another watch or band in the future. But you never know.
