I bought two Wyze color bulbs a few years ago and they worked flawlessly. I especially liked the power loss recovery setting, which enables me to set the bulbs to return to the previous state after a power outage.
Last year, I bought two more Wyze color bulbs, with the intention of slowly replacing every bulb in my house. However, the power loss recovery setting on the new bulbs doesn’t work most of the time. Instead of reverting to their previous state, the bulbs turn on, even if they were off before the outage. In each instance, I have to go back into the app, where I find that the setting has changed itself to turn on the light. To make matters worse, when the power goes off, the bulbs usually drop off of the network, requiring me to repeat the setup process each time.
Imagine the light on your nightstand turning on in the middle of the night when you are sound asleep. That’s the reality I’ve been living with with the latest pair of Wyze color bulbs.
We have this exact same problem. Every time the power goes out, every light in the house comes on when it’s restored.
All the bulbs are up to date on Updates and all are set to “Maintain previous state” but regardless the entire place lights up like July 4th on the sun.
I’ve tried suggesting Wyze change their programming from “maintain previous state” to “turn off” since lights are either On or Off and clearly this current setting isn’t working.
I suspect that since the power often surges before going out that perhaps it confuses the bulbs into thinking their previous state was On.
In any case, nothing has been done and it’s unfortunately the cost of using Wyze bulbs…
Just had this happen to me Saturday morning with my two Wyze white V2 bulbs running the latest firmware.
Despite both bulbs being on 1U APC 450 ups’s under the nightstands, both bulbs reset the other night during a power event that was so short, not a single digital clock in the house went 12 o’clock flashing.
Just all of a sudden both lights cranked up to full brightness and the color temperature reset to default.
The most frustrating part was loosing the ability to control the lights.
I had to rediscover both bulbs with the Wyze app to add them back in the regain control of them.
Doubtful that would have worked if I would not have been within Bluetooth range of the bulbs.
Has only happened once since I’ve had the bulbs but frustrated that despite both bulbs being on the same ups’s the digital clocks are that did not reset, shows how sensitive these are to power anomalies.
Absolutely needs more capacitance added to the 3.3V DC power rail that supplies the ESP WROOM-2D chip at the heart of these devices. I’m sure that would help stop this nonsense.