Thank you for the guide! :) HA version 2021.12 and higher, the configuration code will not work anymore (at least it didn't for me). After adding through HACS, you need to go to your integrations > add integration > wiz light and add the IP address there.
The #1 thing you need to have for wiz bulbs (or anything using wifi) is a good wifi AP. The home combo router / AP you get from your provider is not good for IoT. They limit the number of connected devices (I had Motorola surfboard and shocjly only allowed like 25 connected device). So if your lights are dropping its because your router is kicking it off. Move to a mesh AP or prosumer grade AP like ubiquiti and this problem dissappear. I have no issues with connectivity and I have over 30+ lights
Yes exactly! Even with one of the spendier linksys systems I had issues with lights and just overall wifi dropping, but with a mesh network that resolved it. I should've mentioned that, thankyou that's a great point!
@@abdullahal-shimri3091 Absolutely! I'm using a TPLink system (amzn.to/3puCqNd). I know some people swear by Unifi, but for 3 of those it networked 5000 square feet reliably (I have one dead spot in a bathroom), it's easy to use, and the cost was reasonable. If you're looking to spend money and want to go of a more technical route then Unifi is what people swear by, but I don't even know the list of what all you'd need since they do things more piecemeal.
Hey great video. I wanted to add one thing for those of you interested in the inovelli switches. You mentioned they dont shut the power off when in a certain mode but this doesn’t fully explain their usefulness. Im sure you’ll cover this in the video about them you mention but just to get it out there for somebody watching this video instead of shutting the power off on a down press or turning on the power on an up press they will send a trigger event to home assistant to do with as you please. In most cases turning the lights on or off via home assistant script so they don’t loose track of their state and remain powered. None the less awesome video. I happened to purchase one of these for testing today. Also for anybody looking at inovelli switches they are fantastic along with the support of the folks who make them. A little pricey but worth it in my opinion.
Great point, Pinning this so others see it! Yes the relay disable is a game changer when combined with smart bulbs and home assistant for the reasons you mention. Glad it's working out for you as well as it is for me, loving the product and the company!
I had same reaction. I was using hue for a few years and decided to try wiz thinking they were like other crappy non hue lights. Total opposite. I ended up moving to a place eith many down lights and I just moved everything to wiz. I actually like that e app as it works outside my home out of the box. Hue app remote access was always quirky and always lost connectivity. I almost don't want the word to get out as I don't want the price to go up. The only down side is no smart switch for these. I'm trying out innovelli switches as a possible solution
What hub are you using? I'm using an Inovell with a home assistant setup and I'm able to control these quite well including scenes and such. (I just did a video of the invoellli setup actually....it's a killer combo of their switches with this). I hope you're able to get it setup because it's been amazing!
@@geektoolkit I am using SmartThings for my hub. I am glad to hear that you're using Innovelli. I heard about the Innovelli ability to disable the internal relay (and thereby keep the wiz bulb on) and use the functions of the Innovelli dimmer/switch to control light levels and on/off state. I have the Innovelli switches but haven't had a chance to try them out yet. Seems like you got the whole thing working! I should add I have one Leviton Smart paddle switch for my outdoor light (which is an A100 superbright color wiz bulb). I have a Smartthings routine that turns light on at 6pm and off at 6am and it works great.
@@geektoolkit I’ve never had a problem. I have them in my living room and bedroom lamps and use colored ones for outdoor porch lights. I got my friend and her dad using them now. She’s had one as an outdoor porch light for over a year no issues changed her living room and bedroom lamps with them with only one bulb went bad after a few months. Home Depot replaced it. Her dad just recently started using them. We all love them.
Excellent that's what I'm always hoping for with these...basically show what works when it does, and if it doesn't help others work through things. But this integration is just really well done...and now that you have HACs, there's a ton more you can do!
In regards to the scenes....how do you set a default color for a light. If i wanted them to all turn on red for example every time I clicked the "Red Lights" scene. I know how to make the scene, but can't seem to find the option for default light bulb color.
Is there a way to set the effect as an automation? I'm trying to setup wiz lights for Christmas but want the option to bring them back to regular white when motion is detected via home assistant.
I'm not sure. It was years ago when I had these hoooked up. I JUST moved into a new house and bought 16 of them to setup again (I loved them) and so I'll have to see what capabilities are available. I'm hoping the plugin/integration has been updated since then.
@@geektoolkit they were really easy to integrate and I really like the WIZ app but it appears some things have to be done via scripts in home assistant
Anyone know of a way to adjust the timing of transitions for scenes? Currently going from one scene to another happens very quickly, is there a way to customize the amount of time the transition takes?
It’s a good question! I don’t see a way built into the app. I’ve used home assistant to do some times transitions and other complex effects that the built on software didn’t seem to support
Yeah just ran through it and this needs updating. When you install the integration in hacs go to the main integration UI and search for wiz…there should be an entry that shows up and you can do it all through the UI now!
I was excited when I found these at home depot but I could not get them to stay connected. Tried different fixtures, talked to their support team for a bit but lost interest pretty quick and moved on.
I've seen a few reports of that, and when I had previous wifi bulbs I had similar issues. I've moved to a mesh wifi network and haven't had any issues with my bulbs since. I believe that due to the way the bulbs are designed, they don't have the greatest wifi receiving range..so while other devices connect fine, they require a bit more power. Of course that's not of use to someone if they have to replace their wifi setup to get bubls to work. I wonder if this is why Hue went with Zigbee, where every bulb can act as a repeater vs. wifi. if you found a good alternative please share, as others may hit the same issue and it'd give them something to try.
Very new to Home Assistant and I primarily wanted to integrate my Wiz lights and Switchmate light switches. Great video except you lost me at editing the yaml in your file editor (on your left panel.) I don't have that and being a noob, don't know how to edit the file. Suggestions?
I have a home assistant series that walks through a lot of the basics…that way when I do a specialized video I can zoom through things and won’t have to lay them out in every video. For the thing you’re missing you’ll want to go to addons and add the file editor addon, which should allow you to easily edit the yaml. If you have time I highly recommend the series ive made to help out with stuff like that, if you’re already installed I’d start at episode 2 (there’s a playlist on my profile page). Hopefully that gets you up and running!
Great information, just starting with HA and trying to reference other videos to troubleshoot entities not showing up after file edit. Have a video you would point me to?
I don’t have one for that specifically but usually my approach is edit file, check to make sure it’s valid, reboot. Look for notifications of errors. Then go to supervisor and check logs. Then look for them in developer tools. Usually in the logs, notifications, or when checking configuration I’ll see what went wrong.
@@geektoolkit Thanks, I definitely need to go back to the start.This is a lot more involved then IFTTT. My whole smart house quite after the new terms of service on IFTTT and I don't want to pay subscriptions.
It’s worth it IMO...home assistant has gotten much easier and continues to get better at a dizzying pace. I’ve had my internet down and my house worked just fine which is cool.
Lol!!! Yeah that’s a rough way to start!! A buddy of mine started with the ring alarm system when it first started out and yeah that was a rough beginning. The built ins are cake, so if you can figure out a custom one you’ll be in great shape. Are you using HACs
for some reasons, the wiz in scenes don't work with the effects, only colors. it does back to blank in the scenes tab, but if I open the scenes yaml file I see the effect in there. Latest version: 0.4.2.
I'd report it on the wiz github,just to make sure they're aware. I don't use the effects with scenes for my wiz, but I do for my wled and it works there, so it's something HA is supporting...must be a bug in the integration most likely
The integration has changed since I made this. After getting it in HACS go to the normal home assistant integrations section, add it there as well and then you can add the light Ips via the UI. Remove the yaml entries. It got updated since I made this…going to have to make a new video!
I edited the configuration.yaml to add the lights and restarted the HA server. The lights show up in the Entities list, but when I click on them I get "This entity ("light.wizlight1") does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI." Any idea what I've done wrong?
So I see in a previous comment you mentioned that you've got inovelli switches and wiz working well? I am using smartthings and have my wiz and inovelli working in smart bulb mode, however there is a slight lag (as to be expected since everything happens in the cloud). So I assume with HA Wiz integration it's doing everything locally. I figure this is the case because I saw some other wiz hacks elsewhere that allow you to control the bulbs directly if you have the bulb IP. I assume that is what the HA wiz developer is using. So I am super interested in this now due to control the wiz lights locally. Is this what's happening for you? When you use your inovelli switch tied to a wiz bulb is it fast or is there a lag? This and a couple other things is leading me to switch to HA
I'd say there's about a 500ms lag. It is entirely local however. It's never bothered me. I've seen zwave lag before where the light switch gets hit and then you hit it again because you're not sure if it worked. I don't have that with this. but it's not as instant as with a non smart standard switch. I hope that helps!
@@geektoolkit when you update from home assistant does the status change and Wiz app? I think I heard it doesn't reflect exchange for example if you change a light to red.
@@miketony2069 That's a good question and something I hadn't tested. But I just did test it and it reflected in the wiz app (I did that exact scenario...set one light on and to red, checked the app before and after, and it reflected the current state both times'
You'll have to add it via the github url from the description. Then it'll appear. NOTE: Since I've made this, they changed the next step....once you add it to HACS, then search for wiz in the integrations section and you can add an integration per bulb
@@geektoolkit I'm new to HA (today) and trying to do this....correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like an absolutely insane pain in the ass now if you have a couple dozen like I do.....or am I missing someting?
That's the thing, they're being controlled locally via that addin. You put in the bulbs IP addresses and don't use the cloud account at all. I personally use both...HA controls it locally, but I keep their app installed and things work side by side.
@@geektoolkit That's phenomenal! BTW: I'm loving your videos! More detailed than most - which is great for the Home Assistant crowd - yet accessable to those of us without a tech background. Thanks!
@@geektoolkit do you have to initially use the cloud app to setup WiFi and ip, then you can integrate to HA and let it take over? Or can you get it on your WiFi and IP address without cloud app?
Good question! By default they're cloud based, but using Home Assistant with the Wiz integration it allows you local control (I address them via local IP directly)
@@geektoolkit Great! I'm going to try and make everything local, so if you have any other recommendations there let me know! Really enjoying your videos, to the point and well explained!
Nice video, Joe. Yes, I've been there. 6 smart bulbs connected to dumb switches. After a couple of days I noticed that I was the only family member using the smart control. Everyone else was just hitting the switch. As you clearly mentioned, just adding a relay smart switch just added complaints to the scenario (delay...). Recently I considered replacing the switch by a Shelly i3, but I came across a few tutorials that convinced me that an ESP32 would allow many more switches and sensors for about the same price. I'm still studying this project, but hopefully it will finally give me a family-approved automation.
Oh that’s interesting about the delay!! A buddy of mine was using zwave bulbs and switches and hit that..switched to wifi and they were instant. Please let me know what you figure out! It’s almost funny how amazing things are when we get bulbs like these working and then to hit that scenario is a forehead smacking moment of “of course! This is all based on people not flipping the power off!”. Makes me chuckle a bit. #smarthomeproblems :)
Unable to get this working, keep getting this error in HA; "The wiz_light platform for the light integration does not support platform setup. Please remove it from your config."
Yeah they changed it recently. Please remove it from the yaml and then go to integrations and try to add it there (so you add it to hacs first, reboot, then go to integrations and try to add it and it should show up)
@@geektoolkit yup that was totally it. Upon first install when gathering repos looks like it maxes out it’s requests to the API. I got it going now. Thanks!
Jesus i was trying to add my wiz whites for 3 years and i finally done it. Mostly i have LIFX in the house but i also have 4 wiz in the kitchen, they are cheap and pretty good lights actually. I agree with others Wiz bulbs are having difficulties with the wifi but if your system is good and you have plenty of signal it will be fine. i use a mikrotik cloud core router with 9 cores at 1ghz and a UBNT ac access point (for now).
Lol!!! I’ll have to watch it closer. I picked a game from my childhood and just let it play as background effects. That was an old dos game from ID software by John Carmack and Romero. Before they became famous for a few other games :)
Thank you for the guide! :)
HA version 2021.12 and higher, the configuration code will not work anymore (at least it didn't for me).
After adding through HACS, you need to go to your integrations > add integration > wiz light and add the IP address there.
Yeah they changed it recently….I will get this pinned to help others. The changes happen faster then I can film and edit!
@@geektoolkit It's just the nature of Home Automation right now, things are changing rapidly. Happy to have helped :)
The #1 thing you need to have for wiz bulbs (or anything using wifi) is a good wifi AP. The home combo router / AP you get from your provider is not good for IoT. They limit the number of connected devices (I had Motorola surfboard and shocjly only allowed like 25 connected device). So if your lights are dropping its because your router is kicking it off. Move to a mesh AP or prosumer grade AP like ubiquiti and this problem dissappear. I have no issues with connectivity and I have over 30+ lights
Yes exactly! Even with one of the spendier linksys systems I had issues with lights and just overall wifi dropping, but with a mesh network that resolved it. I should've mentioned that, thankyou that's a great point!
@@geektoolkit can you provide an amazon link for a mesh AP? I need one thx
@@abdullahal-shimri3091 Absolutely! I'm using a TPLink system (amzn.to/3puCqNd). I know some people swear by Unifi, but for 3 of those it networked 5000 square feet reliably (I have one dead spot in a bathroom), it's easy to use, and the cost was reasonable. If you're looking to spend money and want to go of a more technical route then Unifi is what people swear by, but I don't even know the list of what all you'd need since they do things more piecemeal.
@@abdullahal-shimri3091 Amplifi Alien im using 50 lights no problem
instablaster.
Hey great video. I wanted to add one thing for those of you interested in the inovelli switches. You mentioned they dont shut the power off when in a certain mode but this doesn’t fully explain their usefulness. Im sure you’ll cover this in the video about them you mention but just to get it out there for somebody watching this video instead of shutting the power off on a down press or turning on the power on an up press they will send a trigger event to home assistant to do with as you please. In most cases turning the lights on or off via home assistant script so they don’t loose track of their state and remain powered. None the less awesome video. I happened to purchase one of these for testing today. Also for anybody looking at inovelli switches they are fantastic along with the support of the folks who make them. A little pricey but worth it in my opinion.
Great point, Pinning this so others see it! Yes the relay disable is a game changer when combined with smart bulbs and home assistant for the reasons you mention. Glad it's working out for you as well as it is for me, loving the product and the company!
I had same reaction. I was using hue for a few years and decided to try wiz thinking they were like other crappy non hue lights. Total opposite. I ended up moving to a place eith many down lights and I just moved everything to wiz. I actually like that e app as it works outside my home out of the box. Hue app remote access was always quirky and always lost connectivity. I almost don't want the word to get out as I don't want the price to go up.
The only down side is no smart switch for these. I'm trying out innovelli switches as a possible solution
What hub are you using? I'm using an Inovell with a home assistant setup and I'm able to control these quite well including scenes and such. (I just did a video of the invoellli setup actually....it's a killer combo of their switches with this). I hope you're able to get it setup because it's been amazing!
@@geektoolkit I am using SmartThings for my hub. I am glad to hear that you're using Innovelli. I heard about the Innovelli ability to disable the internal relay (and thereby keep the wiz bulb on) and use the functions of the Innovelli dimmer/switch to control light levels and on/off state. I have the Innovelli switches but haven't had a chance to try them out yet. Seems like you got the whole thing working!
I should add I have one Leviton Smart paddle switch for my outdoor light (which is an A100 superbright color wiz bulb). I have a Smartthings routine that turns light on at 6pm and off at 6am and it works great.
I’ve been using Phillips Wiz bulbs for a couple years now. They’re like $12 for tunable white $14 for color changing at Home Depot
Have you had any issues with them long term? I’m just amazed I’d not heard of them sooner!
@@geektoolkit I’ve never had a problem. I have them in my living room and bedroom lamps and use colored ones for outdoor porch lights. I got my friend and her dad using them now. She’s had one as an outdoor porch light for over a year no issues changed her living room and bedroom lamps with them with only one bulb went bad after a few months. Home Depot replaced it. Her dad just recently started using them. We all love them.
Thanks that’s great to hear!!! I’ll have to put some outdoors that’d be a lot of fun for holidays!
Added HACS and the wiz light github repo. Up and running in a day. Thankyou!
Excellent that's what I'm always hoping for with these...basically show what works when it does, and if it doesn't help others work through things. But this integration is just really well done...and now that you have HACs, there's a ton more you can do!
In regards to the scenes....how do you set a default color for a light. If i wanted them to all turn on red for example every time I clicked the "Red Lights" scene. I know how to make the scene, but can't seem to find the option for default light bulb color.
it's possible to make dynamic scenes with this and wiz? i was trying to find a smart light thats allow me to make my own personalised patterns
Is there a way to set the effect as an automation? I'm trying to setup wiz lights for Christmas but want the option to bring them back to regular white when motion is detected via home assistant.
I'm not sure. It was years ago when I had these hoooked up. I JUST moved into a new house and bought 16 of them to setup again (I loved them) and so I'll have to see what capabilities are available. I'm hoping the plugin/integration has been updated since then.
@@geektoolkit they were really easy to integrate and I really like the WIZ app but it appears some things have to be done via scripts in home assistant
Thank you so much for a very good lesson in Wiz
Now I'm up and running and it's true as you said. Very nice light
Anyone know of a way to adjust the timing of transitions for scenes? Currently going from one scene to another happens very quickly, is there a way to customize the amount of time the transition takes?
It’s a good question! I don’t see a way built into the app. I’ve used home assistant to do some times transitions and other complex effects that the built on software didn’t seem to support
Let's start with simple question. I do not have HACS menu item in the left pane.
Did you get this sorted? It may not show up right away or may need a reboot. Check integrations also and see if it’s there, the instal changed a bit
@@geektoolkit Got it appear but always getting error that number of requests exceeded limit. Uninstalled it.
It takes an hour or so for that to get past. That’s the git limiter in action. You have to wait an hour for the repositories to populate
Is there a new way to add the lights? I followed this method a they won't appear as entries on my HA. Thank you!
Yeah just ran through it and this needs updating. When you install the integration in hacs go to the main integration UI and search for wiz…there should be an entry that shows up and you can do it all through the UI now!
I was excited when I found these at home depot but I could not get them to stay connected. Tried different fixtures, talked to their support team for a bit but lost interest pretty quick and moved on.
I've seen a few reports of that, and when I had previous wifi bulbs I had similar issues. I've moved to a mesh wifi network and haven't had any issues with my bulbs since. I believe that due to the way the bulbs are designed, they don't have the greatest wifi receiving range..so while other devices connect fine, they require a bit more power. Of course that's not of use to someone if they have to replace their wifi setup to get bubls to work. I wonder if this is why Hue went with Zigbee, where every bulb can act as a repeater vs. wifi. if you found a good alternative please share, as others may hit the same issue and it'd give them something to try.
Very new to Home Assistant and I primarily wanted to integrate my Wiz lights and Switchmate light switches. Great video except you lost me at editing the yaml in your file editor (on your left panel.) I don't have that and being a noob, don't know how to edit the file. Suggestions?
I have a home assistant series that walks through a lot of the basics…that way when I do a specialized video I can zoom through things and won’t have to lay them out in every video. For the thing you’re missing you’ll want to go to addons and add the file editor addon, which should allow you to easily edit the yaml. If you have time I highly recommend the series ive made to help out with stuff like that, if you’re already installed I’d start at episode 2 (there’s a playlist on my profile page). Hopefully that gets you up and running!
Great information, just starting with HA and trying to reference other videos to troubleshoot entities not showing up after file edit. Have a video you would point me to?
I don’t have one for that specifically but usually my approach is edit file, check to make sure it’s valid, reboot. Look for notifications of errors. Then go to supervisor and check logs. Then look for them in developer tools. Usually in the logs, notifications, or when checking configuration I’ll see what went wrong.
@@geektoolkit Thanks, I definitely need to go back to the start.This is a lot more involved then IFTTT. My whole smart house quite after the new terms of service on IFTTT and I don't want to pay subscriptions.
It’s worth it IMO...home assistant has gotten much easier and continues to get better at a dizzying pace. I’ve had my internet down and my house worked just fine which is cool.
@@geektoolkit probably doesn’t help that the first thing I try and add is a custom repository integration.
Lol!!! Yeah that’s a rough way to start!! A buddy of mine started with the ring alarm system when it first started out and yeah that was a rough beginning. The built ins are cake, so if you can figure out a custom one you’ll be in great shape. Are you using HACs
for some reasons, the wiz in scenes don't work with the effects, only colors. it does back to blank in the scenes tab, but if I open the scenes yaml file I see the effect in there. Latest version: 0.4.2.
I'd report it on the wiz github,just to make sure they're aware. I don't use the effects with scenes for my wiz, but I do for my wled and it works there, so it's something HA is supporting...must be a bug in the integration most likely
Got it installed in HAcs but after editing yaml and restarting, the light is not found
The integration has changed since I made this. After getting it in HACS go to the normal home assistant integrations section, add it there as well and then you can add the light Ips via the UI. Remove the yaml entries.
It got updated since I made this…going to have to make a new video!
I edited the configuration.yaml to add the lights and restarted the HA server. The lights show up in the Entities list, but when I click on them I get "This entity ("light.wizlight1") does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI." Any idea what I've done wrong?
I’d check the yaml to see if the lights are all named the same, and if so fix it in the yaml (and don’t forget to reboot!)
So I see in a previous comment you mentioned that you've got inovelli switches and wiz working well? I am using smartthings and have my wiz and inovelli working in smart bulb mode, however there is a slight lag (as to be expected since everything happens in the cloud).
So I assume with HA Wiz integration it's doing everything locally. I figure this is the case because I saw some other wiz hacks elsewhere that allow you to control the bulbs directly if you have the bulb IP. I assume that is what the HA wiz developer is using. So I am super interested in this now due to control the wiz lights locally. Is this what's happening for you? When you use your inovelli switch tied to a wiz bulb is it fast or is there a lag? This and a couple other things is leading me to switch to HA
I'd say there's about a 500ms lag. It is entirely local however. It's never bothered me. I've seen zwave lag before where the light switch gets hit and then you hit it again because you're not sure if it worked. I don't have that with this. but it's not as instant as with a non smart standard switch. I hope that helps!
@@geektoolkit when you update from home assistant does the status change and Wiz app? I think I heard it doesn't reflect exchange for example if you change a light to red.
@@miketony2069 That's a good question and something I hadn't tested. But I just did test it and it reflected in the wiz app (I did that exact scenario...set one light on and to red, checked the app before and after, and it reflected the current state both times'
This integration is not listed in my Hacs even under custom repositories
You'll have to add it via the github url from the description. Then it'll appear. NOTE: Since I've made this, they changed the next step....once you add it to HACS, then search for wiz in the integrations section and you can add an integration per bulb
@@geektoolkit I'm new to HA (today) and trying to do this....correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like an absolutely insane pain in the ass now if you have a couple dozen like I do.....or am I missing someting?
Am I correct in assuming these bulbs use cloud polling? Or is there a way to control locally.
That's the thing, they're being controlled locally via that addin. You put in the bulbs IP addresses and don't use the cloud account at all. I personally use both...HA controls it locally, but I keep their app installed and things work side by side.
@@geektoolkit That's phenomenal! BTW: I'm loving your videos! More detailed than most - which is great for the Home Assistant crowd - yet accessable to those of us without a tech background. Thanks!
@@geektoolkit do you have to initially use the cloud app to setup WiFi and ip, then you can integrate to HA and let it take over? Or can you get it on your WiFi and IP address without cloud app?
Do the Wiz bulbs work locally, or do they have to talk to some cloud service?
Good question!
By default they're cloud based, but using Home Assistant with the Wiz integration it allows you local control (I address them via local IP directly)
@@geektoolkit Great! I'm going to try and make everything local, so if you have any other recommendations there let me know!
Really enjoying your videos, to the point and well explained!
Nice video, Joe.
Yes, I've been there. 6 smart bulbs connected to dumb switches. After a couple of days I noticed that I was the only family member using the smart control. Everyone else was just hitting the switch.
As you clearly mentioned, just adding a relay smart switch just added complaints to the scenario (delay...). Recently I considered replacing the switch by a Shelly i3, but I came across a few tutorials that convinced me that an ESP32 would allow many more switches and sensors for about the same price. I'm still studying this project, but hopefully it will finally give me a family-approved automation.
Oh that’s interesting about the delay!! A buddy of mine was using zwave bulbs and switches and hit that..switched to wifi and they were instant. Please let me know what you figure out!
It’s almost funny how amazing things are when we get bulbs like these working and then to hit that scenario is a forehead smacking moment of “of course! This is all based on people not flipping the power off!”. Makes me chuckle a bit. #smarthomeproblems :)
Unable to get this working, keep getting this error in HA;
"The wiz_light platform for the light integration does not support platform setup. Please remove it from your config."
Yeah they changed it recently. Please remove it from the yaml and then go to integrations and try to add it there (so you add it to hacs first, reboot, then go to integrations and try to add it and it should show up)
@@geektoolkit It doesn't show up under integrations?
Did a hard restart of the server, then it showed up :)
@@tronndyrstad7939 Yay! Yeah, it's easier for them to edit code and put out a build then for us to make a youtube video. Glad you got it going!
When trying to add the custom repository for wiz into HACS I get a 'Github Ratelimit Error' Any idea on this one?
Try again now. That happens after the first hour I think as hacs is pulling stuff down.
@@geektoolkit yup that was totally it. Upon first install when gathering repos looks like it maxes out it’s requests to the API. I got it going now. Thanks!
My wiz bulbs keep losing conditions with in the app and home assistant. Is there something I am doing wrong
Do they have a decent wifi signal? I had wifi bulbs do that until I went to a mesh network
Jesus i was trying to add my wiz whites for 3 years and i finally done it. Mostly i have LIFX in the house but i also have 4 wiz in the kitchen, they are cheap and pretty good lights actually. I agree with others Wiz bulbs are having difficulties with the wifi but if your system is good and you have plenty of signal it will be fine. i use a mikrotik cloud core router with 9 cores at 1ghz and a UBNT ac access point (for now).
i don't have the file editor, how can i get that tab?
file editor is from the addon store. I have a tutorial series that goes through my setup, but for that one the addon store has it.
Your mic has a lot of interference sound. You need to check your cabling and microphone and interface.
Yeah Thankyou for that feedback! I’ve redone my audio setup so should be clearer now. Always learning and working to improve!
was trying to focus on the good information in this video... but kept watching the video game in the background the whole time.
Ah good feedback. I was trying to have a fun background but I’ll keep it static next time. We’re you able to figure out the game?
@@geektoolkit no, just kept wishing the character could get higher without falling. "oooh... oooo... oh!... awwwww."
Lol!!! I’ll have to watch it closer. I picked a game from my childhood and just let it play as background effects. That was an old dos game from ID software by John Carmack and Romero. Before they became famous for a few other games :)
Dude. Thanks. Subscribed.
Thanks for the support!!
I love wiz it cheap and works great
I still love them...just need to get more! lol
¿ could that background gameplay be "rick dangeous" ? 🤪
Good guess!!! I believe that was commander keen though!
Thanks man! I was blocked for hours
Glad to help!
This guy's been around women too much and just cannot get to the point so thumbs down
What?