Heartbreaking! Well, here’s a vote to include it in Bulb v2, hopefully soon to be an upcoming product announcement. 
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As great as the bulb is it would be better if there was a greater range in brightness. The dim still feels really bright.
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I also second this. The dim is not dim enough. Still too bright for a TV media room. Can we reduce the brightness further with a new software upgrade?
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I have to agree here. I bought a pack of four in the hopes of using the sleep and wake features. 1% is still too bright for my desk lamp (to the point that I need to put a darker shade on it, or revert back to my regular LED). I had hoped that it would fade to almost dark and then off. Instead it’s just like flipping the switch on my regular bulbs. Thinking I might return them and find a different solution for what I’m wanting since I see this thread has been open for a while and doesn’t look like anyone has any faith that this will be solved. Any update? if not, i’ll package up and send them back.
I just pre-ordered a 4-pack of their new color bulbs. Their support has informed me that while the original Wyze Bulb’s dimmest setting is about 86 lumens, the new Color bulbs is about 30 lumens. So much dimmer. And bonus, multiple colors, as well as slow fade for sleep and wake routines. Hate to swap out bulbs, but might be worth it to get the features I want.
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I ordered a few packs myself too. would’ve spent much more if went with the P.Hue ones
-Jose
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All of these smart bulbs out on the market allow you to control percentage of the brightness. But if the idea is that 100% is full lumens and the color bulbs are 1100 lumens then at 1% it’s 11 lumens… 11 lumens is still quite bright surprisingly. If the percentages go all the way down that is. Without any documentation the light at 1% could be 50 lumens starting off.
I would like to see a setting that lets me choose lumens. Or at least a representation of percentage to lumens and the ability to drive it very low. Obviously there might be some voltage issues and why it can not go as low as I want and I’ll understand that.
Everything else in the controls for the bulb is soo much better than most smart bulbs!
I think Wyze should take it to another level to be even better and go to lumens control and not percentages.
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I suspect the reason dimming to very low brightness on most LED bulbs is not available has to do with how they are dimmed, which is likely by pulse width modulation, rather than lowering the voltage. Below a certain threshold with PWM, it would result in visible flickering.
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That makes sense. Thanks!
Yeah PWM was something I didn’t consider. That makes total sense.
gets out 3D printer and starts printing dimming caps for the bulbs
Well then I guess that will have to be the solution just make a cap that is tinted to dim the bulb! Because it doesn’t matter if it’s a 400 lumen or 2000 lumens bulb the PWM is gonna be the same so they will have a limit to how low they can go.
This is probably why I am not creating products and they are!
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And yet the Phillips Hue bulbs can get very dim… I’m sad that 1% brightness isn’t actually 1%. Here’s hoping they fix this oversight in v2
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Aren’t the Hue bulbs considerably more expensive?
Being able to go dimmer without flickering means a PWM circuit that can switch at faster frequencies, which I expect costs more money.
I can confirm that the Wyze Bulb white CAN be dimmer but it appears that Wyze chooses not to allow it to go dimmer.
I ran into an error where my bulb was extremely dim (it happened at night) when I turned it on at night. It would remain dim despite using my Google Home to set it to 1%, 50%, 100%, etc brightness. My Google Home was able to turn it off and on and it would remain dim. The bulb was reset back to factory brightness after I turned the lightswitch off and on. Unfortunately im unable to replicate the dimness (technical bug but actually a what i want).
Therefore my conclusion is, it is physically possible for the bulb to go dimmer.
yet another Wyze product with the affordability hook but without the most basic features and no update even years after launch.
Minimum brightness of Wyze bulb v2 still too bright
I’m running two Wyze white V2 bulbs with firmware rev 1.3.2.29 in my bedroom night stands and often use them to light the way to the bathroom at “night” individually as needed.
I say “night” because as I work nights, I have to use window blank out treatments to be able to sleep during the day so the bedroom is kept very dark to allow for proper daytime sleep.
Thus when turning on even just one of these Wyze bulbs at 1% brightness via Alexa it is a lot brighter than needed.
I know there is a “nightlight” scene setting in the Wyze app but even that is too bright.
Any way to trim the minimum brightness levels?
I also currently have four dimmable LED bulbs in my ceiling fan controlled by a Lutron casetta dimmer that can do just that and even with four bulbs attached is still significantly dimmer at its lowest level than one single Wyze bulb V2 at its lowest level.
Really just want to be able to have better dimmability at the low end of the spectrum on these Wyze bulbs.
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The “Night Light” scene is dimmer than 1%, so it is silly that these bulbs can’t go lower when using the sliding scale… An email from Wyze support acknowledged this problem goes back to 2019 and hasn’t been fixed. I don’t believe this is a wishlist feature, but just bad software/firmware programming that needs to be resolved.
Support also said they were passing my request along internally, so fingers crossed after 6 years this software issue will be fixed.