the news coming from wyze these days is pretty spectacular they have a number of
new features a number of new updates for all of their products and even a few
products that you probably haven't heard of hello automaters thanks for tuning in
again I'm Brian from automate your life and today I'm going to take the
frustration out of automation by keeping you up to date on everything within this
inexpensive platform that you can bring into your smart home and as they expand
we know they're going to go international we know that's in their
plans here in 2020 but we also have been hearing about some very new products and
today's update I'm going to include some demonstrations of how you actually can
use these products and some of these new features as the baseline for some of the
automation in your smart home now the first update this week is actually both
an update and a demonstration so inside the account section and then inside of
Wyze services there's two things that you're going to notice here number one
person detection number to complete motion capture now complete motion
capture we've talked about before but person detection is the update today now
the update around that is that number one if you haven't updated the firmware
on your cameras then you don't have to and therefore person detection will
continue to work as it did before Apple bought XNor and and forced Wyze through
this path but the update component of this is that some beta testers so if
you're a beta tester with Wyze you can go ahead and look in here you might be
someone who can add person detection back in so that is on its way they are
in beta testing and person detection will return very soon to the Wyze cams
some other updates to your devices if you do go and update that firmware you
will have the ability to actually eject a SD card out of this through the
application interface you don't have to do that physically anymore because it is
kind of hard with these Wyze cams your Wyze bulbs will actually have the
ability for a power loss recovery option now you will find the ability to choose
there last state or just turn them on fully
now the other thing they added is the support for the Wyze Lock and the Wyze
Lock went on sale actually just yesterday I'm recording this on the 26th
and it went on sale on the 25th so you guys can go and look at a Wyze Lock it
is listed at $89.99 but when you pay attention to the very fantastic
marketing video that Wyze did and I think you guys should go watch that
because it's just it's plain old funny the way they got these guys do marketing
is great but if you go and you watch that and you start to listen in there
you'll know that the price will be $100 so this is a bit of a special offer
they've kind of taken $10 off the top for the release of this Wyze Lock now
the other component is there is a wireless keypad and that is not yet on
sale they're talking me for that time line another demo for us to walk through
this is one of my favorite things in the application right now because it's
simple but because it is so useful and this is inside of the notifications now
you can turn off notifications for every device you have inside of this section
in the account but you can also go into the specific notifications you have for
each of your devices so you can see on in some cases I don't have them on and
other cases I have them turned on for different statuses and the the contact
sensors do really great in terms of if something is left open or if something
is left closed for an extended period of time you can send a notification so that
really helps you with to say your front door now I talked about the new Wyze
devices coming out that you maybe haven't heard of if you're a beta tester
you might have got access to something called the Wyze Band now the Wyze Band
is a really interesting device to me from Wyze for a couple of reasons number
one it looks like it can compete with a Fitbit it looks a lot like a Fitbit
which Google now owns and it also looks to integrate really well and I would
expect it to integrate really well with their other system so what they're
focused on here and maybe the most interesting part is
that they think they're going to have enough products in your smart home to
give you control of enough of your smart home to make a fitness tracker make
sense for you and when you kind of combine it with the Wyze Scale which
we'll talk about here in a minute you know you're starting to have a bit of a
fitness and a wellness take to the brand as well as these inexpensive smart home
options so really interesting there now Dave Zatz actually found a marketing
video that shows a great demonstration of this I'll leave a link down below so
you can look at how the interface looks looks very nice very clean and you know
we'll have to see how this goes to develop but it looks like Wyze is very
close to getting to the point where they can release the device for early access
this is a very simple demonstration but something that I think a lot of you will
use if you have a Wyze Smart Plug and it gives you another reason to look at those two
packs which are very well priced now the plug that I have can be turned on to a
vacation mode just with a simple press inside of the device within the Wyze
application so this is very simple and what it does is it randomly turns it on
and off now is something that you might want to do that kind of furthers this
automation is start to synchronize your other products now the Wyze bulb has a
vacation mode on it but not necessarily you don't necessarily want it all to be
random but what you could do is actually edit a rule or create a rule that allows
the device trigger of your Wyze plug turning on or turning on for a set
period of time so you could kind of delay the other products you could use
that to actually turn on other bulbs and therefore you can kind of have them come
up in set patterns or all together at once and then turn them all off at once
as well the other thing you can do and this was a question I got very recently
is set a timeline that you want those bulbs to come on so it doesn't
necessarily make sense to just put everything in vacation mode in your home
because then there might be lights coming on
in the middle of the night but you could set start time and end times to allow
your bulbs throughout the home to trigger later earlier in the video I
talked about the Wyze Scale very briefly now they are getting ready for early
access on that device it's out with a lot of beta testers right now the other
thing is the Wyze Outdoor Camera is a new product lots of people asking for this
from Wyze but the fact is with that product they are doing additional beta
testing and additional adjustments based on the feedback that they are
receiving so I think we are still a number of months away from seeing the
Wyze Outdoor Camera come out they really want to get this one right because so
many people are waiting for a great outdoor cam from them now we talked
about those rules and the ability to set those up with vacation mode but one of
the best features inside of this account page I keep coming back to this because
Wyze has done really good work here kind of bringing everything together in one
spot in in recent app updates now the rules history you can go ahead and you
can clear that but I would suggest that you do not because what it will actually
show you from a statistical basis actually is how many of your automations
succeed and how many of them fail so if you're having connectivity issues or
you're finding Wyze unreliable you can usually narrow this down to a couple of
devices and figure out when and how that is going now you can see whether or not
it timed out or there was some other error for for your own purposes here but
you can see how often it's succeeding and which automations are succeeding
something that I think is going to pair really well with the Wyze Door Lock and
that's kind of what we're seeing with this system overall they seem to pair
pretty well together all work within that app but the outdoor wired doorbell
so this is a wired option and what they mean by that is in terms of its power is
in alpha testing so this is very very early testing then they'll move to
adjustments with the product come out with some for beta testers but they are
very early in on this but a lot of the technology being used there is going to
come from that outdoor camera in terms of the
processing in terms of how they're determining whether or not someone comes
up and that product should come out still in 2020 they're still targeting
2020 with all of these products that we've talked about today and a few more
but one of the most important things for us to discuss around Wyze is the data
leak that they had over the Christmas break here it was a big issue and I mean
2.4 million people or million accounts had their details and things exposed
here and this was a bit of a different exposure it wasn't like their their
whole system was hacked and all of that information was stolen no it was kind of
a mistake they had made internally with moving data around and then leaving
something exposed now what they've done in terms of this they've been very
transparent again and this is what lots of people love about Wyze I mean we're
getting product updates but we're also getting updates on what they are doing
around this and this has a number of components that they've worked on from
an operational standpoint and also just from an internal kind of policies and
how they handle things standpoint as well now they've made most of those
changes and you're seeing this on screen right now but they've made most of those
changes but what they're moving into is kind of the testing of how those changes
are going to impact them and how effective they are going to be and
they're using third parties in order to do this so it's great to see the tact
and and and just the forward nosov how they are going ahead and trying to again
gain back trust here for protecting privacy and your information one of the
big updates around that is actually the ability to do more than just an SMS
secondary notification or verification here of accounts this is really
important for those of you outside of us outside of the US who have managed to
get Wyze products you're going to be given some other more modern I would
or better secondary authentication capabilities to keep that account secure
now this is a bit of an older feature within the application but I think this
is really important for people to understand with their Y system because
it brings a whole new sense of automation and in terms of ensuring
recordings happened so you know cameras aren't perfect in terms of recognizing
motion and they're not perfect in terms of recognizing situations that they need
to record but you can make them even smarter with the Wyze bridge and the Wyze
sense now if I go into a contact center and I go into the settings for that
contact sensor the sensor videos is a really important component and anytime a
contact sensor is open or there's motion on a motion detector you can set that up
too you can have one of your devices trigger a recording so a really great
example of this is any time a contact sensor that's maybe installed on your
garage door opens you want a camera in your garage door to record no matter
what it is when it is you just want that to occur you can set up these sensor
based videos and ensure that you're always capturing the right thing that's
it from Wyze this week now of course you're going to want to watch our Google
home updates video from just last week we do these news videos every Sunday and
it shows a ton you can do with a Google assistant Google home and how it can
even integrate with the Wyze product so go ahead watch that otherwise guys of
course thanks for watching and don't hate automate