Roku said it will stop selling smart home hardware and concentrate on streaming, days after Fox completed its takeover of the company, Engadget reported, citing Lowpass^1,2.

A Roku spokesperson told Lowpass, "We're sharpening our focus on Roku's core mission: being the top streaming platform," Engadget reported¹. The company said it will wind down sales of smart home hardware and continue support and services for products already sold^1,2.

Only two smart home items remained in stock on Roku's web store, the Indoor Camera 360° and the Video Doorbell & Chime, Engadget reported¹. Light strips and bulbs, other cameras, smart plugs and a home monitoring system were listed as out of stock, and Lowpass said many third-party retailers, including Amazon, were largely limited to refurbished units¹.

Roku began selling smart home gear in 2022 as rebadged Wyze products and started shipping its own hardware last year, Engadget reported¹. Lowpass, as summarized by Engadget, said Roku had been pulling back for months and had stopped mentioning the products in earnings reports earlier this year¹.

In its last earnings report before joining Fox, Roku said device revenue rose 33 percent year over year in the third quarter while hardware losses more than doubled, from $22.9 million to $48.6 million, which it tied largely to higher memory costs, Engadget reported¹. Device revenue covers Roku's own players and TVs, not sets other companies make with the Roku brand, and the company said its own TVs exceeded expectations last quarter¹.

Techmeme's roundup of the Lowpass report likewise said the wind-down came after Fox closed the acquisition and that existing devices would still be supported². Engadget put the Fox deal at $22 billion¹. What Fox, if anything, directed about the product line was not described in the coverage^1,2.