The list of presets are a good mix, and include things like fireplace, ocean, romance, sunset, club, spring, summer, fall, Christmas, Halloween and several more based on places or things. We created some new scenes with different color combinations, including color cycles with varying speeds for a little pop. We set up the bulbs to work with both Alexa and Google Home. Once up and running, we saw a laundry list of options and features in the app. You get better range with 2.4GHz, meaning that lights in rooms further away won’t wind up in weak coverage areas. Sticking to that band is limiting, but also understandable. We tried setting up the bulbs by moving as far away as we could from the mesh in hopes that it would automatically steer us to the 2.4GHz band, but were unsuccessful. Such workarounds simply weren’t possible with the Orbi and Eero. It worked well, and we had no issues controlling the lights even after switching over to 5GHz. The Covr also uses one SSID, but we tried a workaround by creating a guest network specifically on the 2.4GHz band to enable the connection. We were able to do it with the D-Link Covr and Linksys Velop, however. We had no success connecting the Wiz bulbs to the Netgear Orbi or Eero 2 nd-gen systems. However, this posed a problem for us with Wi-Fi mesh routers that consolidate the SSID into one band. We had no success connecting the Wiz bulbs to the Netgear Orbi or Eero 2 nd-gen systems. Dual-band routers are common, so if you’re using two SSIDs to broadcast the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, then simply connecting to the former on the app is all that’s needed to get the process going. Wiz’s lights require setting up the bulbs individually and connects to a 2.4GHz network band. The advantage of a hub is that it does all the work in distributing the connection from the router to all the compatible connected lights. The color bulbs can access 16 million colors in the RGB spectrum, again, no different than what other smart light bulbs can do.
We also tested Wiz’s system with the Hero, a lamp that needed to be plugged into a power outlet because it has no battery inside. Our review samples were standard A.E26 LEDs with claims of 810 lumens, basically the equivalent of a 60-watt incandescent bulb.
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Often, smart lights like Philips Hue either need hubs for Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth for ad hoc connections in closer quarters. The company promotes this as a differentiator, which it is. Unlike other smart lights, Wiz doesn’t need a hub connected to a router to communicate with the bulbs.