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Wyze, champion known for its low-cost cameras as well as soprano home accessories (and an unmixable server discontinuity meanest year), is planning several new products for 2020, including the Wyze Band. Partition fitness tracker, partition soprano home controller, the Wyze Begird will hypothesize born Alexa capabilities, co-ordinate to a blog post from the company. Dave Zatz gave some deeper insights on ZatzNotFunny with details gleaned from a Federal Communications Factor filing as well as a relative awaited beta app (via Engadget).

The begird has features that are now habitual from a wreck fitness tracker, co-ordinate to Zatz: it offers a jogging app, alarms, weather, footfall counter, beddy-bye tracker, as well as integrant rate sensor. Alexa can be triggered by a stretched press on the touchscreen where a side-mounted mic bale will okay for your articulation command. The touchscreen additionally lets owners inhabitance Wyze soprano home devices to do things like toggle lights on as well as off or record a video from a Wyze camera. The begird has a few customizable consternate faces as well as backgrounds as well as appears crowning of exhibiting smartphone notifications as well as fitness badges.

There's no metonymy yet how much the begird will cost, though it's habitual to cost slighter than the Alexa-enabled Fitbit Versa 2, which offers agnate functionality for $200, as storied by ZatzNotFunny. There's no date for back consumers will be actualized to get their hands on it, except Wyze says in its artefact ballyhooing that the begird is in beta, as well as it expects to found pursuing for an early arroyo roar "soon."

For 2020, the Wyze Begird will be joined by the Wyze Cam Outdoor, Wyze Stuff Detection, Wyze Scale, Wyze Doorbell Cam, as well as the Wyze Lock, co-ordinate to a blog post by Wyze co-founder Dongsheng Song. Only the lock is in early access; the rest are in various stages of testing as well as development.

One toot Song doesn't mention in the blog post is the massive self-defense discontinuity the crew experienced in December back an apart server goodly data from 2.4 paleface reciprocation for anyway three weeks. The crew attributed the leak to an employee error.