Awesome Tips Wyze Band Review: Too Much Too Soon
The new Wyze Band is an ultra-affordable smart watch. But at just $25, how well does it actually work? I tested out its features to help you decide if the Wyze Band is ready for prime time. Wyze has been cranking out quite a few products lately, so I’ll also talk about why that may not be a great thing.
The new Wyze Band is an ultra-affordable smart watch. But at just $25, how well does it actually work? I tested out its features to help you decide if the Wyze Band is ready for prime time. Wyze has been cranking out quite a few products lately, so I’ll also talk about why that may not be a great thing.
LINKS (affiliate):
Wyze Band:
Wyze Cam:
Wyze Sense:
SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss more smart home videos:
Upcoming Wyze products:
MY SETUP & GEAR
See the list of everything I use in my smart home and other favorites:
DISCOVER MORE
Wyze Lock Review:
Wyze Cam Review:
Wyze Sense Review:
Wyze Cam Outdoors:
Wyze Bulb compared to others:
———-
Song titled Above All by Home
Song titled The End by EVA
Disclaimer: Smart Home Solver’s opinions are 100% our own and not influenced. We have never been paid for any reviews.
Deals for Days. Big home savings are happening now.
*UPDATE* Wyze released firmware a few days ago and now the Wyze Band doesn't disconnect from my phone anymore. Even when I exit out of the Wyze app. Also I can get phone call notifications now and alerts if I haven't stood up in 50 or so minutes. I wish these updates were there before I got my Wyze Band but I'm glad to see some of these big issues fixed.
Also Wyze has a coupon code for a free Wyze Bulb for every $20 spent LIGHTUPMYLIFE and it expires 6/1/20
My old camera started flippin out so i bought a Newest.Technology one. Was really excited about the talking feature but my friends said “we can hear your voice through the front door.”10/10
I have everything activated, but I only get the notification of whatsapp call but I do NOT get the notifications of WhatsApp messages … Is that correct or do I have a problem?
I have everything activated, but I only get the notification of whatsapp call but I do NOT get the notifications of WhatsApp messages … Is that correct or do I have a problem?
Suggestions for the Wyze guys:
– extend the band's bluetooth range to 30 ft
– take the handcuffs off Alexa
The battery draining isn’t a glitch. It’s China using its connection to steal your data
Couple questions is there a vibrator in the band to notify you? Would you still buy this or would you wait for the watch
Wyze band stopped working after a month. I wouldn’t recommend
considering i spent way more money on a fitbit inspire with a faction of the features, and filled with glitches this isnt looking bad. on my fitbit i dont always get my sms alerts, sometimes it loses entire days worth of activities b/c the sync function breaks and w/o any notifaction it failed sync, the Wyse band is looking really good if for nothing more than core fitbit like features
For some reason for me it was $30 on Amazon
What happened to the days where Fitbit was affordable? 😂
I LOVE WYZE. Fitbit products only track steps as well and dont do near what the wyze band does. I think your being very fussy considering the price tag. I will be giving this as xmas gifts to my family. My main wish is it would be awesome if it could show your wyzecam video feed. Enjoy Wyze while we can, my guess is it will either fail financially or have to increase prices or worst be bought out by google or microsoft or apple, etc.
What other smart watch device that's not that expensive do you recommend. I to was excited for the wyze band but think I'll wait for the second generation of the band .
What are your comparing this to? I have a charge 3 and it is FAR behind this device from a connectivity standpoint.
Member Tools app 👀
Good job on review, I purchased the band, everything else besides Alexa on this band is nonsense, Alexa works if your phone is close to you, and respond is very slow. Well if my phone is in my pocket, why am I wasting my time, since I could manage the command on my cellphone, you are right, they need to do more updates on this band. I can't control my cameras, but just my wyze switches on my band after several attempts 🤔, if this device could connect to a bluetooth headset and capable to play sounds or music it will be awesome.
Does anyone else find it fishy that Wyze can put out products so inexpensively? How can a company design and produce products that are 1/4 price of other companies?
That Wyze scale looks a WHOLE lot like Withings Smart scale from about 8 years ago.
I’m only interested in the heart rate option due to my atrial fibrillation. Cover any of that?
Almost all fitness bands will be inaccurate when it comes to sleep. Most track your resting heart rate and movement. So by it saying you went to sleep 2 hours early just means that you were probably laying or sitting in bed watching tv and your heat rate dropped to a resting rate. GPS would kill the battery life fast. For $25 beggars can’t be choosers.
Now that's it's a month later do you still reccomend getting it??!
https://youtu.be/lZ5iV59HiUA
You know that’s aggravating $25 smart watch I’m just at a lost I don’t know what to say come on dude for what Wyze is doing at the price point that they’re doing it at. As far as releasing products before you deem it ready. How do you think they keep the cost down there having their customers test for them.
Was it three years ago you couldn’t get a security camera In your house for less than $300 My mother has dementia Last night I went to the restroom and I got a notification saying somebody’s moving around the front door I would be completely sunk with out the 5 wyze cam.
Sorry
Thanks 🙏
How long does the screen stay on once activated? Is there a way to have screen on continually?
I really don't like mine, you me it's just a digital walk. I agree with you on the battery life and notifications however upon day 1 I noticed you need your app to be on in order to work your camera and smart products. The only reason I purchased this was because I thought you could view your wyze cams from the watch. Wrong. I can't do anything wyze/smart prods related without the app and I might as well pickup my phone and use Google home or Alexa if that's the case. Another disappointment is since Day 1 tech support STILL made no effort to make contact me
Mines has ran 12 days on a single charge. My notifications barely work though.
I’d just pay to have Alexa on my wrist to connect with my smart home.
I’ve got one and it works great. Once I had it say it wasn’t connected while my phone’s Bluetooth said it was. I shut off the Bluetooth, immediately turned the Bluetooth back on it connected automatically instantly and has never done it again and that was before I updated it. It’s always connected and I never have the app open.
Does it work with Google Assistant?
Is it working same in another region as well ? Like some watch doesn't have that kind a feature enabled at another region , is it possible in this one in india as well ?
Since i got mine they've already had at least 3 firmware updates for the band. Definitely not yet waterproof, i showered with mine and it ended up rebooting. To expect a better product from wyze don't get the early access items. Once released to the public more common issues tend to be resolved.
More and more companies keep releasing products with software issues, this sucks for consumers. Guess they figure they can always fix it later, as they get the revenue now. As consumers, we shouldn't accept this kind of practice because as we have, it's become the norm.
I trust you. What is the most inexpensive smartwatch out today, that properly and consistently provides solid email notifications?
Great review, man! You echoed many of my experiences with my own Wyze Band.
It disconnects frequently from my phone. Enough so to really be an inconvenience.
The sleep tracker was so bad that I didn't even bother trusting the other tracking programs.
I disabled notifications because I would rather manage them on my phone. It's been that way for me with every whereable that I've worn so that's not a dig against Wyze, just a personal preference.
My wife leaves her notifications on and the difference between the 2 bands in terms of battery drain is astounding.
Her battery died out in about 7ish days. At 14 days, I still had 30% on mine, but that's where the rapid battery drop hit. Mine was dead by morning. But 14+ days on a single charge was impressive.
Thanks to your video, I fixed my biggest issue with the band. No matter what, the Alexa control wouldn't understand what I was saying. Disconnecting the service and reconnecting like you showed, resolved that issue for me. Thank you for that!
Overall, I'm happy with a $25 waterproof watch that controls Alexa. I can't even find that at Walmart.
The rest of the features are junk right now. Hopefully they get the software fixed. I'm with you, the band wasn't ready and was released too early.
I LOVE my band! I know they will improve. They always send updates to fix flaws. It's new, and VERY promising.
I still prefer the Xiaomi Mi Band 4. 50 meter 5ATMM waterproofing for $28, accurate and very fine tuned over the years sleep tracking and fitness tracking, can control Mi Home via Mi AI, NFC for contactless payments, OLED display
I've had my Band for two weeks now and other than some sleep function wonkiness on a few days, it has worked perfectly for me.
Wyze band DOES NOT receive notifications for most things on IPHONE XR
So the band works with Alexa but not with Google Home. I have all my wyze cameras set up thru Google Home.
The main reason I bought the Wyze Band was for Alexa, but all I get is "Connection Lost – disconnected with Wyze app" when I try to use the feature. 😟 I hope a future firmware/software update will make it usable.
The fitness tracker is pretty much garbage.