WiZ Luminaire Cellular Transportable Gentle Overview & Wiz A80 18.5W LED (150W equal) | Boot Tech

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Persevering with with my comparability between Wiz, Tapo and Philips Hue.

Wiz was type sufficient to ship me some samples just lately to strive. This included:

• WiZ Luminaire Cellular Transportable Gentle
• Wiz LED 18.5W (150W Equal) E27
• Wiz 8W B22

I do not appear to have any lights with the bayonet kind attachment so I have never tried it.

18.5W WiZ A80 LED Bulb (150W Equal)

Nevertheless, the Wiz 18.5W is extra attention-grabbing. At 18.5W, that is the equal of a 150W incandescent bulb, and it is enormous. WiZ claims that it may present 2452 lumens of brightness. The 8W B22 they despatched me offers solely 806 lumens. The brightest bulb Hue presents is 1600lm.

As you may see from the comparability of the 2 WiZ bulbs, the WiZ 18.5W is not going to be appropriate for all eventualities. Luckily, I had a lamp with a big shade that simply hid the bulb and it really works nicely on this state of affairs.

Utilizing this bulb in my lamp, it may present sufficient mild to comfortably illuminate my total room. So it is an excellent possibility if you do not have many lights in a room. By comparability, my 800lm Hue bulb struggles to offer sufficient mild by itself.

WiZ Luminaire Cellular Transportable Gentle

The cell transportable mild is an attention-grabbing product. Because the title suggests, it is battery-powered, and WiZ claims you will get 10 hours of battery life. Sadly, it is not IP rated, so it is not appropriate for taking outdoors (until it is dry).

Being battery powered, they’ve stored the general brightness fairly low. It has a luminosity of simply 400lm, half of what a regular mild bulb is able to. It’s, due to this fact, extra about ornament than a major contribution of sunshine. It seems to be like it will make an incredible evening mild for a kid or a get up mild for anybody who has a tough time getting up within the morning.

It connects by way of WiFi identical to the opposite lights and works with all of the good options inside WiZ, so you may simply set a schedule for when your youngster goes to sleep.

Coloration and light-weight choices

All coloured bulbs and lights throughout the WiZ vary have a wide selection of colour choices to select from.

Two of those are a progressive 30 minute get up or bedtime routine the place the sunshine will progressively get brighter/darker and use an acceptable colour temperature.

Alternatively, there’s a vary of dynamic choices that may progressively change colours. You then have choices for each the brightness and the velocity of the colour adjustments.

Unsurprisingly, there are the everyday static choices. These are extra restricted than Hue, there aren’t as many choices, and I feel grouped bulbs tackle the identical colour, relatively than Hue scenes. You’ll be able to manually choose your personal colour, so you may nonetheless find yourself with an superior trying setup.

Rhythms and Schedules

One characteristic that’s fairly cool is the pacing choices. It is principally only a schedule, and you are able to do it in any mild. Nevertheless, this lets you arrange a full day schedule based mostly on completely different instances of the day. So you need to use the sunshine to get up within the morning set to 2700K cool white to offer you some vitality, then through the day the colour temperature turns into hotter and at evening it adjustments to heat white, which it ought to assist you calm down and be prepared for mattress. .

Whereas that is potential with most good lights, it is a good and simple method to view and set your lighting schedule.

Equipment and vitality monitoring

You’ll discover that there’s a energy monitoring part within the app. At first I believed every bulb may management its personal energy utilization, which might have been a reasonably distinctive characteristic.

Sadly not; that is used for one of many WiZ good plugs, which has a built-in energy meter.

Along with good plugs, WiZ has a movement sensor and a sensible button.

It does not appear to be they promote it by itself, however there’s additionally a WiZmote included with among the packages. This offers fundamental management for setting colours and brightness and turning lights on and off.

Integration

Wiz has a wide selection of three built-in^dr social gathering integrations. The three that caught my consideration probably the most have been IFTTT, Homey, and SmartThings. I do not use SmartThings anymore, but it surely works completely with House Assistant, so you may combine any of the Wiz bulbs with a posh good dwelling system.

Worth and availability

On the time of writing, the 18.5W bulb does not seem like in the stores, however the press launch signifies it would price £27.99. The 100W equal variant is offered from Amazon for £18.

The WiZ Transportable Lamp ought to retail for £79.99.

Normal

I’ve turn out to be so ingrained within the Philips Hue ecosystem that I generally discover it exhausting to get enthusiastic about different good lighting methods.

Nevertheless, I’ve been fairly impressed with the WiZ merchandise. They’re inexpensive and of fine high quality. There’s a variety of product choices that mean you can increase your system all through your own home. Intensive integrations will mean you can construct a complicated good dwelling system at a low price.