I think my bulbs are fine but then again, I haven’t taken them out if the package yet. I am, however, an optimist. 
@Solardave
If you leave them in the package, they will work as well as they have been working!
For all I know, they could be randomly turning on and off at this very moment.
“If a bulb lights in the box, will anyone see? “
Schrodingers Bulb?..
Is the bulb dead or alive?
Sure, bring quantum physics into the mix.
Meow 
I still got the one single bulb acting up 
I assume its just hard rebooting itself / loosing power temporarily as the app nor Alexa can turn it off
until it re-establishes a wifi connection.
I have had these new Wyze bulbs for several weeks , and these bulbs will turn on at random during the day or night. Sometime within minutes and sometimes within hours. I have checked my power condition at home to confirm no sags , and also confirmed in the app that these bulbs are not set up on a timer or vacation mode. I used firmware .109 and .146, and the issue happens on both versions. Please let me know if you need more info, and please advise. Thanks , Ed
Just wondering if anyone else has any suggestions to address this issue ?? I also reported this concern to Wyze support on the same day I reported on this forum, and nobody from Wyze has reached out or replied back yet. So frustrating that I have 5 of these bulbs and can’t use them.
I didn’t have any issues UNTIL the most recent firmware update. Two Wyze bulbs installed and sometimes one will randomly turn on, other times it will be both. Also have two C by GE bulbs and they are not randomly turning on at all. What is triggering the Wyze bulbs but not the GE?
Sadly I maybe pulling my Wyze bulbs and just replace em with TP-Link / KASA brand bulbs.
I have six TPLink bulbs already for awhile, with no problems.
With the Wyze bulbs loosing connection randomly and not being able to turn em off or on… or the one bulb randomly turning on, it is just getting old.
Maybe in six months ill try em again with hopes of a new firmware update.
I pretty much gave up. I even tried the most recent firmware and they still turned on by themselves. I hooked up one to test against and even with the most recent firmware they are not working properly.
I bought a pair of AOCOCR bulbs and love them. About the same price, work on the smartlife ap, but most importantly, they turn on and off when I want them to.
The one Wyze bulb I left in, is in the basement as a test piece. My wife was at her wits end with the bulbs turning on at night (as was I).
Oddly the Wyze ap is seeing my AOCOCR bulbs as Wyze even though it cant control them. It is seeing their IP but not the MAC ID. This is just my humble opinion but I think they pushed these out too fast without enough testing. I did order the wall sockets so that will be interesting to see if they got it right there.
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Might be time to collect some more information. I was having that issue in the beginning. I’ve been rock solid for many weeks now. The only change I’ve made was to allow all traffic types thru my router. I use to only allow tcp/udp. Coincidental or are the bulbs using another type of traffic?
They are using the same traffic. I have one Wyze bulb that works correctly. I spent 3 weeks harvesting data and analyzing the firmware. I even replaced the firmware on one bulb with Tuya firmware by flashing it to the chip(it worked fine after that).
My 2 remaining bulbs(one bad one good) were in the bedroom with the ‘bad’ bulb continuing to not work properly. I moved it to the basement as a test bed for future firmware.
I have about 2 dozen other smart devices in my house that all run a version of an espressif chip and none of the other items have ever had an issue like this. Even my Biglots wifi bulb(RGB) works fine and it was $5 in the junk bin.
Personally the more aggravating part of this is/was Wyze ignoring my support request for 2 weeks until I sent in another. Then they never did anything to fix it. Never offered replacements or repair. I then took it on myself. I now have no warranty on 2 of the bulbs since I modified one and dissembled another. There are many people with this issue. I’m willing to bet there are more than actually post here. If you are curious about the inside of these bulbs, look for my thread where I post a link to my teardown video.
The Wyze bulbs are just standard ESP based smart bulbs. Nothing overtly special about them. Anyone can search eBay or Amazon for dozens of different tunable smart bulbs for the same price point. I was hoping the Wyze bulbs were going to be a new great thing like their cameras. For me at least, they are not.
All of that said, I do not want to sound like I am saying all bulbs are an issue, or that Wyze is a bad company. I know there are a majority of bulbs that work fine and I love the cameras. If I had to guess, I would say the first release had some buggy bulbs. I did pre-order so that might be part of the reason.
I’ll keep an eye on my one bulb to see if it ever starts working properly. Then the one bulb of the 4 that always worked, will be living in the porch light. Otherwise I am going with Smartlife compatible bulbs for the foreseeable future.
Well…as with most “new” things, I expect some hiccups early on and that’s been the case with almost all products I’ve had over the years that we’re trying to be disruptive. I’ve lost years I will never get back fighting with the 1st generation SmartThings, SimpliSafe and so many others I’ve lost count. I the end, one of 2 things typically happen - the early bugs get worked out or the company disappears. Considering both the funding Wyze has accepted and their frugality in spending it, I’m betting that this too shall pass. All their products are based on known stable underlying (firmware flashable) products with custom code. As they learn and debug things get better and eventually the issues in rev.1 are long forgotten. They’re building out an ecosystem so there’s lots of moving parts and that involves a lot of work to get everything to play nice. I’m all in for the price point and potential and am taking a wait and see attitude. In the interim, I no longer have any issues with my arms and for the most part sense. As for bulbs, I have faith 
There is nothing new or special here. These bulbs are based on almost 4 year old technology. Hiccups would have been resolved by the first firmware update or a bulb replacement.
Its been a few months now. There is no real excuse for those of us with bulb issues to still be having them. Wyze should have offered to replace the problem units.
The whole experience has been a little disheartening. I’m curious to see if the outlet modules work properly.
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Yes it happens all the time and seems uncontrollable. Would love to know how to control them
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At this point, I’m not even willing to purchase any additional products from Wyze until they can figure out why this is happening. I really dislike being awaken at 3:30 in the morning because my WyzeBulb turns on by itself!
I’ve just submitted a Support request and am, ideally, looking to return all of my 8 bulbs for full refund. What a shame…
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I don’t know what all you have tried to get them to work but have you verified that ‘Vacation Mode’ is off
Yes, vacation mode is and always has been turned off. I’ll also add that it is not always the same bulb that randomly turns on… They each have turned on at some point.
I removed all four of mine after the 2nd attempt to use them else where in the house.
They are just to problematic to use. Ask Alexa to turn the dimming down to 1% … and would have that 1 bulb that would just not respond.
Or have a dark room to watch a movie… and have a random bulb just come on.
My Pan Cam went to hell… and the Sense kit itself after being replaced, the sensors kept loosing signal, being feet away.
Only thing working so far is their Wyze Plug… but I think sadly, ill be moving on from Wyze for the forseeabl future. Their stuff is cheap, but the “You get what you pay for” sadly seems to apply here
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