How I fixed the Feit Wifi LED Lightblub (2.4ghz issue)
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2018
- UPDATE 11/2020: Watch this video if you are still having trouble :) • Smart home - connectin...
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UPDATE 1/2020: You can use the AP mode button in the new Feit app. Just press that and follow the general instructions in this video. Name the Access Point the same as your existing network and use the same password.
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Update 3/2021:
You can setup a hotspot with Windows 10 and you don't need to use a 2nd phone!
support.microsoft.com/en-us/w... (Thanks Zach B)
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Having trouble with a 5ghz network on your new Feit color changing light bulbs? Just setup a mobile hotspot with the same SSID and password as your real hotspot (making sure that hotspot is 2.4ghz if you can set that) and you'll be up in no time. Once your mobile hotspot is turned off the bulbs will connect to your real wifi network.
Steps:
1) Unplug home wifi
2) setup hotspot on your phone that matches SSID and password exactly of your normal wifi
3) connect your 2nd phone to the mobile hotspot
4) reset the lights as mentioned in video
5) your 2nd phone should see the lights and connect them to the hotspot
6) Turn off the hotspot
7) plugin your home wifi
8) it should work without mobile hotspot being turned on now!
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Sorry for the poor quality edits and voice over, but I hope this helps you!
Also works for TECKIN SB50, Great Value A19, Gosund, old wemo smart plugs.
I have an iPhone XS Max (software version 15.1) and 5GHz router and was able to easily connect a Feit bulb with one change to the set up procedure in the Feit app. In other words, I did not have to trick the bulbs in any way or conjure up a hotspot! Once in the app, get to the 'Add Device' screen with the animated blinking bulb. At the top right of the screen note where it says 'EZ Mode' and tap that. The pull down includes 'AP Mode' (no idea what that does) and 'Bluetooth'. Tap 'Bluetooth' and proceed to setup as instructed. Done. Exhale. Smile. It seems Feit heard the complaints and added this feature. Cheers!
Thanks! This is covered in the other video I recommend in the description too! I'll pin this comment too!
THANK U SO MUCH!
This worked like a charm. Thanks!
Still failed 😢
@@lunv1888 EXACTLY !!!! Idk wtf these ppl talking about “ easy connection “ all this & that no tf it’s not !!!! 😤
IM returning this piece of crap i never knew a light bulb could be ao difficult to operate i got it to connect but i hate the app its definitely not user friendly
my Feit smart Bulb install help. ua-cam.com/video/9Y3MrJLfnKU/v-deo.html
I can’t thank u enough . I was about to recycle brand new electronics with a hammer
Lol, I wanted to destroy them too! Glad you are fixed up!
@sblightsout973 lol same
Lmfao
Last night, I THREW it at the wall. To be fair. I had already tried for a half hour.. STILL ‘WORKS’ 🙃
Same😂
Shouldn't be that hard to plug in a goddamn lightbulb. Going right in the trash.
completely agree
Seriously. I don't want them this badly.
Thanks for making my day with this comment. I laughted so hard. Last night I almost throw the bulb 💡 away out of frustration. Too much to do gess 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️. I will try his step today and see if it works 🤞
I just wanted to comment on your video and say my GREATEST thank you!!!! I was in tears trying to figure out how these work since I've always wanted these and finally got them. I was so upset after spending the money already and I frantically looked for videos to help. I'm so happy to have come across this video, thank you SO much again! This really does work!
Wow @Pris, I'm so happy that it helped and that you waded through my poor editing. Thanks for taking the time to comment - I made this video because I was in the exact same spot as you and it really does feel good to know it was time well spent :) Have a great day!
It works.
I didn't turn off my WiFi.
Simply walked away until my both phone could not receive WiFi then applied hot spot with WiFi name and pass.
The secondary phone (with the app) connected to my hotspot thinking is the WiFi connecting automatically.
So I walked back turn off and on the lamp while the % on the app was counting (even if the lightbulb wansn't flashing at the begining) and it worked.
This worked with LE lampUX ..
I tried for over 2 hrs ... With this method 15 mins and you're good to run.
Thank you so much
OK this guy is a real guru. Did you come up with this fix yourself? Unbelievable. I've been looking for a smart fix for weeks and a ton of dumbasses all over the internet keep going like it is possible to take a chunk off your wall and walk away with your light switch. I immediatly became your subscriber. We need people like you in the world. THANK YOU.
Can't thank you enough, I was so frustrated at the end of my driveway, this worked so fast I couldn't believe it!
Very clever and it works! You only have to do this once for setup of device and then it will connect to your regular WIFI connection. Most new browsers are mesh and are a hybrid of 5G /2.4G and there is no option to create a second SSID and thus impossible to set up with smart home devices. This is an awesome solution! I downloaded the device app on my ipad and connected to my iphone's hot spot.
It Worked! Guys just follow his instruction and you can get the bulbs to work. If you have an iphone all you have to do is just go to your phone settings - General - About - and change your iphone name to your wifi name
Thank you for adding iOS info, I'll put this in the description!
I’m three hours in still havin problems 😩
Mzyungsniper 206 I followed every single step of the video and it worked. You just have to make sure your phone hotpot name and password is the same as your WiFi name and password .
Ab M where do I change the hotspot settings on the iphone. I can only change password, nothing about connecting devices or options to connect to a hotspot. I’m unfamiliar with this hotspot stuff so I appreciate the help.
Mzyungsniper 206 is your phone hotspot enabled by your provider? if yes, you just have to go to your phone settings, general, about , and change your iPhone name to exact name as your WiFi name
I want to thank you for posting this video, I don’t have the same brand that you have but a different one. Was having the same problem and I tried your technique and it worked!! I was so frustrated with this and I really can’t thank you enough for this video!
Thanks Chris! I'm glad it worked for you!!
You're the man! I've tried the go down the block trick on my google mesh network and light bulb still can't connect to the right wifi. This works wonders! Thank you very much!
Big thanks! worked like a charm. That was just one device. I have half dozen others I'll do the same on. Once my provider upgraded to 5gz, setting up completely stopped. Thanks again!
Thank you so much. These are the only pretty smartbulbs on the market. I was seriously irritated. I was on my 2.4 GHz network and had to use my phone hotspot to trick it in AP mode on the new app. Thank you.
It works on AP mode anyway, you don't need to trick anything
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Thanks for the idea of using a hotspot, I’m going to try it
Worked for me using a Pixel 2xl and Galaxy S7, I was able to setup 15 lights, thanks for sharing!
This worked awesome! Saved me from messing with my modem settings. Appreciate the post.
Worked fine for me, I have used the AP mode in the Feit app. Thanks a lot.
Yes, AP mode is the correct way to do this lol
Not walking up and down your road or creating hot spots on your phone!
omg thank you so much!! I tried everything and never came close to getting my Teckin bulbs to work but this worked on my first try! I never would've thought of this!
I have Teckin bulbs! And I'm having the same issue :(
Thank you... been on the ladder with a feit floodlight.. No joy..... found this video.. Life is good. Im using verizon LTE Home for WIFI, almost every smart device has been a challenge
Thank you! This worked for me 🥳 I changed my personal hotspot name to the same name and password as my BT HUB. I spent 3 hours trying to fix this!
Why they couldn’t add a Bluetooth option so people can avoid this retarded set up process is beyond me. Most people don’t care about the remote access and just want a lightbulb that changes colors.
Robinson Crusoe exactly
I know this company is so fucking retarded
Its called AP mode and its included in the app. Top right hand corner.
I got frustrated with these and just went and got some bulbs on amazon that change color through a remote control. They work so much better.
I agree with you.
You are the best !! Omg I have been here trying to connect this light bulbs for hours but it worked yayyyy . Thank you !!
Yeah, I wasted hours too! Glad it helped you!
If you use you hotspot click AP mode and follow the directions it's so much easier than how you explained it, but thanks for helping these other people out
Thanks! The old app didn't have AP mode in it, I should make a new video with the new app though.
You don't need to create a hot spot. Just use AP mode
Thanks for the video I was about to return it but after watching this and connecting it to my personal hotspot it worked !! Thanks
Thank you, I have an iPhone. I had to make sure my network had two WiFi Networks, 2.4 ghz, and 5.0 ghz. Once Verizon split them I was able to connect the first light. The 2nd one connected as a default name and I than changed the name accordingly. Shared devices with my wife and that was a nightmare. You need to share devices to either phone number or email. Each device has to be the same. Than go on their phone and accept. Than go into messages and upload and/or view. What ever location you give, you have to go to the 2nd phone and click on that address. To get the right address on the first setup I had to keep clicking on the geo location until the address changed to our address not my neighbors lol. Thanks again.
2.4GHz is essential for Gosund. Your video worked. Thanks!
Thanks a lot man. These other guys had me walking 🚶♀️ 😂 around my yard like an idiot 🙄. Your way works great 👍 thank you.
Worked 100% thank you. Now I can work lights with my mobile Hotspot and not a wifi
Hi Abdullah, I'm glad it's working for you!
Thanks. Helpful. And you changed my bedrooms light 3x
Thanks for this! I had blinking lights for the past 3 months. I can finally do my homework in peace.
This was really helpful. Can't thank you enough. I can use my smart bulb again with this trick.
thanks man your tutorial fix the 5 GHz problem you are the man!
What if I only have one phone to work with on this?
this is the ONE video that actually worked! I appreciate YOU!!!!
Haha I can't believe that this helped so many people 🙃I would have definitely put more energy into it if I knew it'd be 200k views.
I'm glad it helped you out and thanks for letting me know ❤
Why didn't I think of this? You're a genius
You are awesome!! Worked perfectly! Thank you for the help!
Great! Glad you got it working!
Thanks man.. I spent whole day trying to figure out.. but your wifi hotspot trick worked.. appreciate!!
Thank you so much!!!! I was just about to go crazy! (Crazier!)
Not crazy but crazier. 😂😂😂I think am in that mood already. Gosh these bulb are something else. I been outside like 7 times and still not connecting 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ will try his -
Still working fix. Thank you soooo much :)
Worked with the TECKIN SB50! (which seems to be the same) Thanks a lot!
Thanks I will add that to the description
It worked! You're my hero!
Even using 2.4ghz this Feit App sucks and refuses to sign into your wifi. After 15 tries, including removing bulb from socket and reinstalling, blinking the bulb on and off till I was dizzy, deleting the Apps cache, restarting the App, etc...finally I got the damn thing connected. From there, the Alexa App breezed thru the mating process and the Dots control it fine. Most people wouldn't have as much patience. Have to wonder how many of these bulbs get returned.
Same here but how did u get it to work
I agree. Feit needs to do a better job at documenting the information. Their bulbs have a different ip address. 71.x.x.x. Can't remember the actual number. However, it's key that our own wifi networks have the 2.4 ghz, and 5.0 ghz are split not combined. I had to have Verizon get in and make sure. They also made sure my wifi had the same name I choose not the default. Otherwise I'd have to go and reset all the older devices like Alexia, tv's etc.
This is a garbage company selling poorly implemented junk. They deserve to go bankrupt.
Welp I dont speak tech. Guess I'm returning this.
It worked!!!! Thank you!!!! I also have Google WiFi and the feit bulbs. Thanks!!!!
Glad it helped you out!
Just fixed my problem , take like 1hr. But i did ittttttt thanks ^^
Omg thank you so much I thought o was gonna have to take the light back to the store
You are wonderful for sharing this!!!
Worked for me! Thank You!
Thanks worked perfectly!
This man is a Genius... Working on october 22
Worked like a MF'ing charm. A million thank yous!
Dude you're awesome! It worked
Hey I have an question can you do a video for a mercury smart wifi led bulbs it will help alot because I'm having trouble with it thank you
Thank you so much. It worked. Life saver
Worked perfectly with a Great Value A19.
Right on
What a help. Thank you man
ur a saint, thank you
mine worked great until it started having connection issues and stopped even blinking when doing a reset. i fixed it by smashing with it with a hammer since I am tired of fooling around with this dumb bulb. I will look for a better smart light from another company besides Feit
Could you please make a video for iPhone
it's the same process for an iPhone I've use 2 iPhones to do that
CydiaMan can you help me please
Dhariouz you have to rename your iphone to the name of ssid and set its password to the same as your WiFi password.
Use AP mode
Walked out to my mail box method worked for me! took 20 seconds to add 4 smart bulb. Gave a thumbs up just the same for the idea!! thx! BTW Brand was Merkury
jay yee are you for real the mercury brand works to? With that method because i just got one but i cant so you thinnk i should do that
😆 just use AP mode. There's seriously no reason to be wandering up and down your street to connect a light bulb
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Works with Lumiman bulb with the plusminus app.
Switch to ap mode, add light manually and select ap mode at top right corner. Works %100. Easy fix.
I want to change my bulb's reset time or amount of times they have to go off and one before they are reset. The power out here sucks and it likes to flicker, and it resets my bulbs I want to fix it will it will tank more than just 3 flickers to reset them.
Great trick, my friend. Thanks a lot!!!!!!
Glad it worked for you!!
You are a genius sir!!!!
For some reason my lights only connect when my wi fi security is set to none, if security is set to anything else they register offline the app.. any ideas...?
I understand newer wifi routers are automatically switching between 2.4GHz & 5GHz seamlessly to optimize our wifi. But I cant imagine these routers cant be manually set to only 2.4GHz. Does your router or ISP have an App you can install? Usually to do things like monitor usage and parental controls...maybe there?
What about logging into the router settings with the login on the back of the router?
Maybe it's in the manual or the manufacturer has a FAQ?
Finally just asking the support departments?
Its probably easy. Or maybe I'm wrong and it cant be set to 2.4 manually, which is evidence that this world is based on greed and building products for market without thoughtfullness in the cheapest, fastest most profitable manner without considering the need of actual end users.
Can you please do this again with the updated version of the app?
my Feit smart Bulb install help. ua-cam.com/video/9Y3MrJLfnKU/v-deo.html
@@Bearwolf thank you. this is legitimate way and straight forward than setting up hotspot
you are such a genius !! muchas gracias !!
Another way to do this is use the mobile hotspot feature on your windows device, you can configure a new wifi and I set mine to 2.4 ghz and it worked like a charm with my lightbulb
That's great - I didn't know windows could do that - People have had trouble with not having 2 phones so good to know.
It worked! 👏 Thank you
Hooray! Enjoy ☺️
Can't believe it worked! I had almost given up
Glad I could help
Absolutely amazing it works!,!! Thank you!,!
You are genius! Thank you
Thank you that's helped me a lot
I appreciate the video. Quick question. I’ve already installed 4 Feit light from Costco and successful installed them to my google mini!!! I bought 4 more and connected 1 to my Feit app, but I’m having an issue getting it to connect to my google mini. Any suggestions? Do I have to uninstall all other then reinstall all at the same time? Hope you can help! Thank you!
I got so stressed seeing that it kept blinking. I used a regular light bulb on the lamp and it was perfectly fine, but when I used the feit electric light bulb it kept blinking, I actually ended up tazing myself a little while trying to see the problem
for me the colors will randomly turn to white/grey. I then have to reconnect the light to get the colors work. It becomes annoying.
Bro this actually helped me thank u
Glad you were able to make it work!
Brett Ansite yea I have the mercury bulbs and it kept telling me to connect to 2.4ghz even tho I was on that and I was getting stressed until I saw ur vid and did the hotspot thing cuz I didn’t wanna have to walk all the way down the street or sum and it worked! I’m stressed free of that now
Really good video men thanks
Glad it helped
How do you make this work with iPhone because I️ can’t set up the 2.5ghz with my iPhone
Don't do it like this, use AP mode
ua-cam.com/video/z7wOYSzXAa4/v-deo.html
The app is slightly different than the one in the video but the principle is the same. Get the light bulb flashing slowly and then use AP mode to connect it.
can two phone controls the same dimmer ?
I realize this is a year later.. but our devices have the ability to toggle between 2 .4 and 5 by choosing the necessary wifi network.. for example, My router lets you choose either the 2.4 and 5ghz bands separately in the available wireless networks when searching for a network. When I go to choose a wifi to connect to I have 2.4 and 5 as 2 different wifi availabilities even though they are botb technically the same wifi networm, just different bands. It looks like this: wifinetworkname-2.4ghz
Or wifinetworkname-5ghz allowing for the ability to choose the desired network band.
Only issue i have is after the lights cycle off with schedule they go offline. Then you must manually turn the switch on and off again
this bulb makes me so mad...what if I change my wifi pw and don't wanna lose my settings... how can I reconnect the same bulb to the same wifi with updated pw without having to start all over again adding a new bulb?
It works but now I have to use the hotspot all the time otherwise it won’t work I’m I right?
How can I change the colors on the light from the app it won’t let me do it
Or you can do this call your carrier ask them if the router modem you have 2.4 and 5 Ghz .. You have to ask them to connect both of them so they are bridged and ask for the names of your network...once that is corrected your phone should be able to pair problem fixed .. In my case I had one named the router name and the other was name5ghz. I've seen it where it was nqme2.4 and 5ghz had no name.. That will also fix your problem.
Thank you it worked.
What I want to know is why did you say to turn off all your devices that shouldn't have anything to do with anything I can see maybe turn off your router but then how are you going to get Hotspot through your data? I guess that's how you would do it
When I reconnected to my internet it worked for a few minutes then it didn't.
Fyi. Just tried this today. Android. They have changed the app and it now seems to not allow connection if wifi is off. You can't connect them via mobile hotspot ☹️
I can’t get the bulbs to blink rapidly, even after on off trick... can’t pair them to iPhone bc I can’t get them to reset and blink to begin with? Help!
These bulbs should come with a ⚠️ For Millennials or younger only! I don’t have the patience to go through all the hassle just to use a colored light bulb. Going back to incandescent bulbs with colored glass. So much simpler..
im gen z and this lightbulb was a complete pain in the ass to install. i think the more expensive ones like phillips hue are a lot easier but they're like 3x the price
One shouldn’t need to “trick” the wireless signal. I have a Google nest router... zero issues setting up anker, eufy, tp link. Unfortunately they don’t make the particular thing I need right now.
Try to Connect via tablet. After this you can control bulbs from mobile Phone. I had a problem with my galaxy s8 . Now its All working
i have an android, i cant see my current wifi frequency, and my bulb just keeps blinking.
I did this and it did work but now I cant connect my phone back to the router wifi :( any help?
what if u dont have a hotspot
Basically, stay away from this Feit bulb, it sucks. It's difficult to connect and for me its dropped twice where I had to re add it and it gave me problems both times.