I used to be able to set the Color Bulb to a pure color, e.g. pure red (FF0000) or pure blue (0000FF) by dragging my finger on the color picker. You know, like the whole point of a color changing bulb is the ability to pick any RGB color desired
Now I can’t do that anymore. It gets kinda red but there’s always a little blue and green in it.
I can still set pure colors using a rule, and it honors it.
However, if I do have it set to a pure color and then increase the brightness (not the color at all) it increases brightness and makes the color whiter. This ruins the darkroom, eye sight, etc. In other words it does not go or the controls and defeats the purpose of a color controlled bulb.
Did Wyze do this on purpose? Any way we can fix it?
It’s been this way since since at least October, still not fixed, I can get a pure shade of red/blue/green if I use Google assistant, but can’t use the color wheel to pick the pure shade on Android OR IOS
You might be able to if you’re controlling the bulb with a 3rd party app. For instance I can get pure colors by linking my bulbs to my Google assistant and then saying something like “hey Google set bedroom lights to red”
There must be an API Google is hooking into and giving it hex values,
But purely using the Wyze app, even the new one, no you cannot.
As @BrentronBot indicated, you can do this in Automations (formerly Rules)…sorta.
With the normal color picker control for Wyze lighting products (bulbs and light strips), you can use your fingertip on either a color circle or a white ring (different temperatures of “white” on the ring), but the app doesn’t give you any value feedback of whatever you chose. You have to use the same controls when setting light colors in Automations, but at least after you’ve made your choices and when you’re looking at the steps in the Automation the app shows you what it intends to do based on where you tapped on the color circle, so you could see something like “Set color selection 0000ff” or “Color Blink ffff00”. There’s no way to type or precisely dial that in, though, so I’ve gone through the color selection process for a single Automation step in the app multiple times just to get the resultant hexadecimal value I’m seeking.
There’s a Wishlist topic requesting better control:
Yeah, don’t have fat fingers, but I’m honestly surprised when an Automation in the Wyze app actually does show the hex value I want on the first attempt. That’s usually not the case, though.
I do that, too, and Google Assistant is pretty good with both. Amazon Alexa tells me “that value is out of range for device [blah, blah, blah]” when I ask it to set a bulb to a specific Kelvin value, even when I give it values that are clearly within the bulb’s specs. Alexa is kind of a stupid jerk sometimes.
This is what happens when a company doesn’t hire talented software engineers and focuses more on pumping out new products every other week. Seems like every one of their software based products has had or still has issues. And if they do end up fixing the bugs, they take forever getting around to it.
controls when setting light colors in Automations, but at least after you’ve made your choices and when you’re looking at the steps in the Automation the app shows you what it intends to do based on where you tapped on the color circle, so you could see something like “Set color selection 0000ff” or “Color Blink ffff00”. There’s no way to type or precisely dial that in, though, so I’ve gone through the color selection process for a single Automation step in the app multiple times just to get the resultant hexadecimal value I’m seeking.