Roku told Lowpass it will wind down sales of smart home hardware and keep providing support and services for Roku Smart Home products. Only the Indoor Camera 360 and the Video Doorbell and Chime are still in stock on Roku's store. Roku gave no end date for support. The move comes days after Fox closed its $22 billion purchase of Roku.
Do not buy a Roku camera, doorbell or smart plug as a new long-term purchase. Roku is leaving the smart home business. If you already own one, it keeps working: Roku says support and services continue, and it has not named an end date.
What changed
Janko Roettgers of Lowpass first reported the exit. A Roku spokesperson told him by email: “We plan to wind down sales of smart home hardware and will provide continued support and services for Roku Smart Home products.” The spokesperson said the company is focusing on being a streaming platform.
According to Lowpass, Roku’s own store lists every smart home product as out of stock except two, the Roku Indoor Camera 360 and the Roku Video Doorbell & Chime, both sold as special offers. Engadget, which reported the story on November 11, adds that light strips, bulbs, the wireless doorbell, other cameras, smart plugs and the home monitoring system are all out of stock, and that Amazon now lists only refurbished units.
The statement comes days after Fox completed its $22 billion purchase of Roku, according to Engadget. Roku entered the category in 2022 with rebadged Wyze hardware.
Roku has not published a statement on its own newsroom. The only on-record confirmation is the spokesperson’s email to Lowpass.
What owners should do
- Keep using what you have. Roku says support and services continue. Nothing has been switched off.
- Check what depends on Roku’s cloud. Cameras and doorbells that record to a Roku subscription rely on Roku’s servers. Roku has not said how long those run. If recorded video matters to you, download the clips you need to keep.
- Do not expand the system. Adding a third Roku camera to match two you own ties more of your home to a line with no new hardware coming.
- Treat the two clearance products as short-term buys. A discounted camera with no stated support window is fine for a garage. It is a poor pick for a front door you rely on.
Memory costs made hardware harder to justify
Roku did not tie the exit to component prices, but its last earnings report before the Fox deal shows the pressure on hardware. In its third-quarter 2026 shareholder letter, Devices revenue rose 33% from a year earlier to $194 million, and the Devices gross loss more than doubled, from $22.9 million to $48.6 million. Roku blamed the negative 25.1% gross margin mainly on elevated memory costs. That segment covers Roku’s players and Roku-made TVs. The letter does not break out smart home products.
The same memory squeeze is raising prices across consumer hardware, as covered in the third-quarter PC shipment numbers. A company losing money on every streaming player has little reason to keep a side line of cameras and bulbs.
The lesson for buyers is about who makes the device. Roku’s smart home line was a side business for a streaming company, and side businesses get cut after an acquisition. For a camera or lock you expect to use for five years, pick a maker whose main business is that product, and prefer hardware that works with a standard such as Matter or records locally, so it still works if the maker’s cloud goes away.