Philips Wiz Connected - App Walkthrough & Philips Hue Comparison

What the Wiz? Find out what the Philips Wiz Connected bulbs and accessories are all about. I'll show you how to use the Wiz Connected app and explain everything you need to know about these budget smart lights. Philips Wiz work with Alexa, Google Home, IFTTT, and Smartthings and could be a great inexpensive alternative for smart lighting in your home. Will you Wiz? Let me know in the comments!
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0:00 - Philips Wiz
1:18 - The App
5:34 - Works With
5:58 - The Hardware
7:57 - TL;DR

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[brucewaldmer]

If you want to have your bulbs turn on to the last active setting you need to go into each bulbs settings in the 'room' and turn off WiZclick. If you want to keep WiZclick turned on and have a specific setting you want the bulbs to turn on to just change the #1 setting for the WiZmote to that setting. I'm new to these bulbs and wanted to do the same thing and just learned this.

[Justin_tech]

**CORRECTION: If you want to have your bulbs turn on to the last active setting you need to go into each bulbs settings in the 'room' and turn off WiZclick. If you want to keep WiZclick turned on and have a specific setting you want the bulbs to turn on to just change the #1 setting for the WiZmote to that setting.** (Thanks Bruce Waldmer for catching this).

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[geektoolkit]

Incredibly well done, not only the ocntent, but your presentation. your audio and editing are on point, and content wise you absolutely killed it. I was researching these bulbs as I'm about to do a home automation video on them (home assistant related) and you covered them wholistically amazingly well!

[winningblitz]

My local Home Depot is currently selling these bulbs for $3.97 a bulb. I definitely stocked up on them. I have Philips Hue bulbs for my primary living spaces, and I'll be putting these bulbs in less frequent but still used spaces where I don't need the deluxe bulbs.

[Teksura]

Very nice, although I noticed quickly that you were mistaken about not being able to create Zones within rooms. You can. Easily. They're called groups. If you're still using the v1 app instead of the v2 beta, it's just a matter of dragging the icons on top of each other. Then you can control everything in that group together. I'm also a little confused about you not being able to set the bulbs to go back to their previous setting when you turn them on through the app or the remote because that is EXACTLY the behavior I'm seeing on mine. There's even a setting in the app to select if you want this behavior or a different behavior.

[johnpaulhank]

This may be a silly question...but does your phone need to be connected to the same Wifi for this to work? I am looking to get some bulbs more for security reason, so that I can control them through my phone even if I may be in a different city.

[Barco]

Some of the WIZ products are zigbee related and can be use with Philips hue, like the WIZ plug for example

[padkoh]

Finally found an in-depth review of the Philips hue Wiz connect.

[coleweathers]

Tried them, frustrating set up, app doesn’t consistently connect to bulbs. Sticking with Phillips Hue for most rooms. Keeping these in my home gym.

[Anton-du-Fleur]

Mine just loses connection with the wifi or the app, I'm not sure. One minute it works then the next it doesn't.
Any ideas because I full Wi-Fi and good signal and sitting about 10 foot from the lights.

[christopherhutton]

Is wiz just a more expensive alternative to Smart Life products?

[exovitae]

Hi, does the Wiz app have widget options so i can turn on/off my light from the home screen?

[ds]

My Wiz app with iPhone just stopped responding. I powered off and on the phone and it didn't solve the Wiz non-functioning issue. I then deleted the app from the phone then downloaded it from the Cloud via Apple store. Then it would let me do anything. I tried to Create a Home and it said Verification Failed. I tried to log in via one of the third-party options it gave and is said I first have to have created a home. So this Wiz app is now worthless. I have to turn on and off the many Philips bulbs the old fashioned way. Any thoughts on what went wrong with my Wiz app on my iPhone?

[danielsam]

I like how the Christmas celebration setting alternate colors between green and red. Wanted to create a 4th of July to alternate among R, W and B. Is there a way to create/new Celebration settings?

[eclecticgentleman]

I have both and both are cool. I have a lot of nest cameras and google displays in my house. Every wiz light connects separately to my WiFi and slows it down. If you have lots of stuff on your WiFi you really need the hue because they all connect to the hub and just the hub connects to your WiFi. The bad about hue is it doesn't have all the scenes in wiz and the circadian rhythm option. I really wish I could find a way to do a circadian rhythm on my hue

[jurajkovac]

Hello, has the application option to turn off the light at a specific time? For example a want to turn of the light on 23 p.m. Is it possible? Thank you

[Marcuss]

Will the Wiz remote control work with this light bulb?

[lifedreamtv]

Great video! I'm going to go with Wiz to start, just because they are inexpensive.

[Roxy_licious]

The Wiz app has changed to Wiz V2. The in-app system has changed, there’s no “Add to Siri” button. So, I’m having some trouble adding scenes to Siri. 😩 an update would be really nice.
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[WiNkHuGnKiSs]

Hi, to get that bright salon pink color in your back ground, what smart bulb brand is close to getting that? The one I have gives off a dark pink.