A year ago, I would have bought one of those leak sensors in a heartbeat, but now I don’t need one. Also, I would have bought a few of those climate sensors right now if they worked without a hub and I could use it to automate turning on/off a Wyze Plug. Looks like Wyze Sense used to do something like that, but I don’t see any options for that right now. I currently have a Govee Bluetooth climate sensor, because it was the cheapest option I could find, but I can’t automate anything with it since the only way to get to the data is to manually connect to it and download the data over Bluetooth.
Since the climate control sensor measures humidity… I wonder if it would work as a digital hygrometer inside a humidor?
I do not want, (or need), “home monitoring” (and the yearly $60 fee that goes with it) 
… but I do want, and desperately need to, upgrade my version 1 sensors, (as many, 6 of 22, so far, have failed), to the new V2 sensors.
But I need a hub. (Just the hub) I haven’t been able to find a way to buy the hub separately… (I’d like to buy the hub first to see how well the V1 sensors that are still working, connect to it…
and then add new V2 sensors to replace the failed v1 sensors as needed… And budget allows. 
So, when can I buy a just the hub separately? without purchasing home monitoring?
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That’s exactly how I want to use these services… I don’t want a home monitoring calling the police
…I have neighbors that have been billed by the town for false alarms… and I wouldn’t want to risk that… (If I get a timely alert on my phone, I can do the same thing a “professional home monitoring service” can do… for free… which is to dial 911)
I’m looking for a budget-friendly option to do it myself… and that’s why I bought $20 cameras from WYZE… (when I first bought them they were offering free person detection for life …but that’s gone by the wayside), because they were very budget-friendly… It’s also why I invested in the version one sensor system by putting contact sensors on all doors and windows, and motion detectors in every room, (22 contact sensors 6 motion detectors throughout the house) only to find out that they had a hidden, and fatal flaw… If the battery is allowed to go dead the sensor dies with the battery forever. (Now the version one sensors have been abandoned completely)
I’ve had six contact sensors go permanently dead, and two motion sensors die, due to low battery issues…
and, I just discovered two more contact sensors on windows that I never open, that are dead as door nails… not once in over a year, did I receive a low battery notification on either of those sensors… yet they’re both junk… and now those windows don’t have contact sensors on them… and I can’t buy any new ones without buying yearly home monitoring. (I hope you can understand my frustration)
The new home monitoring only being sold with a yearly subscription is not what I’m looking for…
The exact opposite actually.
(This was supposed to be a reply to a comment made above… but the person I was replying to didn’t get tagged… and it didn’t get put after that person’s post…
so excuse me if it seems out of place… but I can’t seem to figure out how this discussion board works…)
You don’t need to use the monitor service. (You leave it in test it won’t call anyone)I just looked at it as a bonus if you look at the pricing they give you a discount for the service off the price of the system. I am not crazy about being forced into it either but the price is not bad for what you get. The v2 sensors are much faster to respond in the app and have been reliable for me so far.
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I’d really rather just buy a hub to start with…
because I already have a lot of sensors from the version one system that can be used with the version two’s hub…
but they don’t sell the hub separately… At least I haven’t found it anywhere separately…
(And as I look across the room to where my router is, and the outdoor camera hub that sits next to the router, the thought of yet another hub sitting there, is making me think I don’t want to bother at all)
I just found some really great motion sensors and contact sensors, and leak sensors (I bought one of each to try out), made by a company called “Shelly” that are fantastic… (They also make some very cool Edison style smart bulbs) they’re more expensive, but they have a 3-year battery life, and their feature set is nothing short of wildly impressive… Most importantly, They don’t require a separate proprietary hub… they’ll work with the generic #Zigbee hub that’s built into my Amazon Echo 4th gen Smart speaker, and that seems to be the simplest solution going forward… (Most everything else in my house works with the #SmartLife ecosystem, …which Alexa also recognizes, and can make routines to automate almost anything in the house very simply)
Hopefully WYZE will sell the hub separately without the home automation package, and I can begin to use the version one sensors that I have installed throughout my house again… but until then, I’ll continue looking for alternatives…
Yes you can still use it. Not sure what features will go away, but you can use the hub and sensors to notify you as those function as the old V1’s did - Just better distance.
I have not cancelled my service yet as I have signed up for 1 year to play and see if I want to keep it. But I am still in test mode and everything continues to work. My belief is that the keypad would be the issue, but not sure on that. Maybe another forum member who has cancelled their HMS, can shed some light on this.
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Wow that was some quick shipping on the WRV replacement parts kit. Everything packed nicely and fits as expected. 
Looking forward to those leak and climate sensors… 
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I also want to know if we can use them without the monitoring service as I do my own monitoring.
Will we be able to trigger events through the climate sensors like turn on a light or turn on a smartplug?
@UserCustomerGwen Any thoughts on this?