Wyze Sense sits in an odd place. It’s cheaper than any home security system you can buy, but it’s not a home security system. It’s a self-monitoring system. Despite that fact, there’s lots to love about this $20 sensor pack.
Whether it’s the original Wyze Cam or the Wyze Cam Pan, we love Wyze products. At the heart of Wyze is a fundamental promise: reliable products at incredibly low prices. The Wyze Sense starter pack continues that tradition.
If you already own a Wyze camera and you’ve ever considered adding motion and contact sensors to your house, you can stop reading this review.
As long as you don’t want full security options, skip straight to buying a starter pack right now.
Stupid Cheap, But Not Full Security
For $20 you get a bridge (think of it as a hub), two contact sensors for doors or windows, and a motion sensor. Contact sensors go on things that open and close, like your doors or windows. The motion sensor does just what sounds like, and you may want this in a room where you don’t have a camera. Compared to similar SimpliSafe sensors you’d spend $30 for just two contact sensors, or only a motion sensor, and you’d still need to buy a $185 hub. However, with Wyze Sense, you don’t get a full security system.
With SimpliSafe, any kit you buy comes with a keypad and base station, and you can buy a siren as well. Additionally, you can subscribe to a monitoring service. When you leave the house or go to sleep, you can arm the system. If someone trips a sensor, the siren will sound, and if you have the monitoring service, they’ll call you and the police. The idea is to be a theft deterrent and failing that to protect you and your family.
Frankly, Wyze Sense doesn’t offer any that. You don’t arm the system, Wyze offers no monitoring, and you’ll notice the company never calls this a Security system. It’s a Sensor system.
You should get the system if you want to know about the comings and goings in your home. When the family arrives, when guests arrive, and if you’re willing to do the legwork of calling the police if a thief does break in your house in the middle of the day. You should look to something else if you want a full security system.
A Sensor System That Couldn’t Be Easier to Set Up
Getting up and running with Wyze Sense is a simple process. First, plug the bridge into the back of one of your Wyze cameras (it doesn’t matter which). Then attach your contact sensors and motion sensors to the spots you want to monitor, they all have double sided tape attached.
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