Smarthomes work best when you have enough devices per room integrated for convenient automation. But that can be expensive. Wyze, however, may have all the right ingredients at the right price to run your smarthome.
Wyze Already Makes Most Smarthome Things
To start a basic smarthome, you need a few gadgets—smart bulbs, smart plugs, and a voice assistant to control them. More advanced smarthomes add in additional devices and sensors to enable true automation; step into a room, and the lights turn on, for instance.
Unfortunately, that leaves you buying smart gadgets from half a dozen companies or more and putting in the time and effort to integrate them all. You may need a purchase a hub to connect everything, then learn a complicated process for creating routines and schedules.
Wyze is well on the way to offering all the gadgets a basic smarthome needs and is even dabbling in advanced smarthomes. From one company you can buy indoor cameras, bulbs, sensors, and soon smart plugs, which leaves you with less intercompany finagling to frustrate you. And while it hasn’t announced a release date yet, the company even stated it is working on an outdoor camera.
You Get More Devices for Less Money
The other challenging component to putting together an extensive smarthome is the expense. Smarthome gadget prices add up quickly, and usually, the best way to deal with that is to roll out your smarthome slowly. But Wyze has you covered because its gadgets cost far less than its competitors. You could almost argue that “holy cow that’s cheap!” is Wyze’s entire business model.
Indoor Nest cameras cost between $200 and $300, and even the cheaper Arlo Q goes for $150. But Wyze Cameras? Expect to spend between $25 (for Wyze Cam) and $40 (for Wyze Cam Pan) after shipping. At nearly a tenth of the cost, you get 90% of the features the other companies offer, even person detection, without a subscription. And the Wyze Cam Pan comes with a feature Nest, and Arlo Q doesn’t offer: panning. Properly placed, you can potentially purchase one Wyze Camera to monitor an area that would require two Nest or Arlo cameras.
That same focus on cost applies to Wyze’s other products as well. White Philips Hue smart bulbs range between $12 and $21, with the latter adding tuning features so you can adjust the shade of white the bulb emits (like warm white or cool white). And you still need to purchase a $50 hub. A tunable white smart bulb from Wyze will set you back $12 (with shipping), no hub required. The cost goes down to $10 apiece if you buy a four-pack.
Although not released yet, Wyze Plug looks to continue that trend, coming in at $15 plus shipping for a two-pack. That’s less than half the cost of some of our favorite smart plugs. Even inexpensive iClever smart plugs, which are frustrating to set up, cost more than Wyze plugs will when they launch.
And Wyze takes the cake with its incredibly inexpensive sensor kit.
Sensors Take Your Smarthome Even Further
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