Roku Doubles Down on Smart Home With Self-Built Cameras

Roku is making a bold move to further establish itself in the smart home ecosystem, unveiling a new line of battery-powered indoor and outdoor cameras that represent a notable evolution in its strategy. Unlike the company’s initial foray into smart home gear in 2022—which leaned heavily on rebranded Wyze hardware—these latest additions were developed independently, … Read more

The Next Wyze Smart Lock Goes Touchless

Looks like our favorite (not really) purveyor of value smart home gadgetry, Wyze, is about to dip its toes into even more personal biometrics. Forget fingerprints – those are for Luddites. Whispers on the digital wind (along with in-app renders) suggest Wyze is gearing up to launch a new smart lock that wants to get … Read more

The Next Wyze Video Doorbell May Have a Second Camera for Packages

Not only will the upcoming Wyze Cam Duo feature two cameras, it’s possible Wyze’s next doorbell may too… in addition to potentially arriving first this fall. In reviewing this newly discovered Wyze Video Doorbell with fellow smart home enthusiasts Jimmy Hawkins and Adam Miarka, we collectively suspect the curious items at the bottom of the … Read more

Wyze Cam Duo Can See Around Corners

Taking pages from both the stackable Wyze OG Cams and the Wyze Cam Pan v3, the upcoming Wyze Cam Duo features dual, independently adjustable cameras to broadly cover multiple angles and situations. While we don’t yet know if the top camera’s positioning arm is motorized, the bottom camera appears to recycle one of Wyze’s typical … Read more

Wyze Cam v4 on the way. But you shouldn’t patronize this company.

Hot on the heels of the new Wyze Battery Cam Pro, the company is prepared to increment the Wyze Cam v3 — which is possibly their best selling and most highly regarded WiFi camera. The upcoming Wyze Cam v4 quite clearly picks up a spotlight, as shown above and sourced from the publicly available Android … Read more

Wyze Trade-In/Up Programs Save You Money, Reduce e-Waste

Wyze is launching a small beta test to put the second of two possible Trade-In programs through its paces. While many of us treat (previously) inexpensive Wyze hardware as disposable, by offering Wyze store credits and product discounts, the company intends to reduce e-waste by simultaneously building customer loyalty and replenishing their stock of refurbished hardware … Read more

Eyes On the Wyze Battery Cam Pro

While the Wyze Battery Cam Pro has yet to be announced, I’ve been covering its gestation since January … and have just gone eyes on with some actual hardware at my local Micro Center. The Wyze Battery Cam Pro features a number of improvements over the Wyze Outdoor Cam 2 (that I wasn’t so fond … Read more

Wyze Home Copilot is an AI Smarthome Chatbot

By way of the US Patent and Trademark office, we learn that Wyze has been preparing a smarthome AI chatbot. And the Wyze “Home Copilot” trademark filing accounts for both app and cloud implementations, as detailed below. Downloadable software; Recorded software; Downloadable software for the artificial production of human speech and text; Downloadable software for … Read more