What is wiz-mac-control?

Wiz Control is a small Mac app that lives in the menu bar at the top of the screen and lets you control two Wiz brand smart light bulbs without opening a phone app, creating an account, or relying on the internet. It talks directly to the bulbs over your home network using a simple network message format, so it works instantly even if your internet connection is down. Clicking the menu bar icon opens a small popup with a color wheel you can spin or tap to pick an exact color, a slider that moves between warm candlelight and cool daylight white, and a brightness slider, all of which change the bulbs in real time as you drag them. Small colored dots show the current state of each bulb at a glance. You can control both bulbs together, which is the default, or switch to controlling each one on its own. There are five preset slots you can click to instantly load a saved scene, and you can right-click a preset to save, rename, or clear it, with each preset remembering its own color, brightness, and on or off state per bulb. The app can also be set to launch automatically when you log in, and the network address of each bulb can be edited directly inside the popup, with that setting remembered the next time you open the app. Every time you open the popup, the app checks in with the real bulbs to make sure what it shows matches their actual current state. You can install it two ways: downloading a ready made zipped copy from the project's releases page and moving it into the Applications folder, or building it yourself from the source code using only Apple's Swift command line tools, without needing the full Xcode application. Because the downloaded app is not officially notarized by Apple, macOS will initially block it as quarantined, and the README explains the one line terminal command needed to clear that block. The first time you run it, macOS will also ask for local network permission, which needs to be approved or the bulbs will appear unresponsive.