#WiZ Bulb Matter best practices

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cobalt coral
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I have some Phillips WiZ branded bulbs distributed through my home, controlled via the WiZ-Home Assistant integration. They're relatively reliable, but I've been decommissioning some of them as they've caused some issues in the past by occupying so many wifi addresses. Also, their app control requires internet access.

However, I've been able to install the update on many of them to support Matter, and I now have some of them linked to a SkyConnect dongle.

The same bulbs are now linked to duplicate WiZ/wifi and Matter entities. Would it be a best practice to try to delete these entities from the WiZ app to control them solely to Matter? What functionality is the Matter connection adding? So far, they're still a little inferior to my Zigbee bulbs.

hallow cedar
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there's not much reason to use matter instead of the native wiz protocol with those bulbs, as far as I know. the native protocol is (or at least can be) local control, and the bulbs might have less functionality available when using the vendor-agnostic matter protocol.

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the wiz bulbs don't use thread, they're matter wifi devices. the skyconnect dongle isn't involved at all.

safe rose
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i actually recommend using the Matter integration over the WiZ integration because the WiZ integration is missing the ability to ping a device for diagnostic purposes

grave iron
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I have near 100 Wiz matter bulbs on a 5 puck Unifi network. One thing I noticed was Wiz bulbs only update on Wiz V2 app (V1.33 seem to be the one for Matter integration). So I add them with the Wiz V2 app and let them all settle for a day. This generally gets them all updated and I can see/work on Wi-fi signal issues. Then on day 2 use the Wiz V2 app to show me the matter setup codes (in integrations in Wiz V2). No scanning devices getting on ladders or forgetting what paper was for what light. At this point I fill out my spreadsheet I keep for setup codes and start onboarding the updated lights with a nice list of codes to HA.

I use a lot of the Wiz CAN downlights, light strips and basic bulbs. I do reset my Router/HA often during the process. It seems to keep everything pretty happy.

So far good Wi-Fi signal leads to a stable network and I stay weeks and months behind updates because I have no real reason to have growing pains if I'm stable.