What has changed with Roku smart home?
The news first surfaced in Janko Roettgers' Lowpass newsletter and was then confirmed to outlets including Engadget and Gizmodo. A Roku spokesperson said the company is "sharpening our focus on Roku's core mission: being the top streaming platform" and "we plan to wind down sales of smart home hardware and will provide continued support and services for Roku Smart Home products."
The range covers the cameras, wireless video doorbell, light strips and bulbs, smart plugs and home monitoring system Roku launched in 2022, plus the battery cameras it added more recently. Engadget reports that only two products were still in stock on Roku's own store: the Indoor Camera 360° and the Video Doorbell & Chime. Most of the rest was sold out, and Amazon was reportedly down to refurbished units.
The timing sits close to Fox completing its roughly $22 billion takeover of Roku on 6 November. Lowpass and Engadget say Roku had been shifting away from the category for several months, while at least one outlet says the exit was planned before the deal and the timing is coincidental. Nobody outside Roku can verify which is right, so treat the link to Fox as unproven.
The numbers give some context. Engadget reports that Roku's hardware losses grew from $22.9 million to $48.6 million in its latest quarter, which Roku blamed largely on memory costs.
Will Roku smart home devices keep working?
Roku has promised continued "support and services", and nothing we have seen says the devices stop working. What is missing is detail. No outlet has reported a support end date, a warranty position, or what happens to the Roku smart home app and its cloud features if support later lapses. Reports also say Roku has not said whether it has found a manufacturing partner or a buyer for the line.
That gap matters most for cameras and doorbells, which depend on a cloud service and app for live view, alerts and clip storage. Some of the early Roku hardware was reportedly built with Wyze, which is worth knowing if you are trying to work out where firmware updates will come from.
Why does this matter for Home Assistant users?
Short answer: if you were thinking of buying Roku cameras or plugs for a Home Assistant setup, don't. None of the coverage we read mentions Matter, Thread or Home Assistant support, so we have no evidence these devices offer local control. That is an absence of evidence, not a confirmed limitation, but it is not a gamble worth taking on a product line that has just been put into wind-down.
This is the standard risk with cloud-first hardware. When a maker exits a category, local control is what lets a device outlive the decision. We cover that trade-off for cameras in our UK security camera buying guide, and our Tapo camera review shows what a low-cost, Home Assistant-ready alternative looks like. We have also covered an earlier case of a once-popular product being dropped in our Vaillant vSMART discontinuation write-up.
What should Roku smart home owners do now?
Nothing urgent. Keep the app and firmware updated, export or save any clips you care about, and check that you are not on a paid cloud plan you would struggle to cancel. If you were about to buy, skip the clearance stock: discounted hardware from a line in wind-down is a poor bet even if the price looks good.
If you want a doorbell without a subscription, our no-subscription video doorbell comparison is a better starting point.
What we don't know yet
We do not know how long support will last, whether the line will be sold on, or whether the products were ever sold in the UK; the coverage we read is US-focused. We will update this page if Roku publishes a support timeline.
