Do I need Hubitat

[aaiyar]

@rlithgow1

The reason for this is most bulbs make bad repeaters.

There's a whole slew of newer zigbee 3.0 rgbw light bulbs that this no longer applies to. These include bulbs by Innr and a whole-slew of variously branded bulbs made by eWelight, but sold under lots of names. Color reproduction is good, and the color temperature range is 2700-6500K.

I reviewed some of these recently.

This could be a good deal on two zigbee 3.0 RGBW bulbs and a zigbee 3.0 outlet

Here's the promised followup. The bulbs pair to Hubitat very easily as "Advanced Zigbee Bulb". They do not respond as anticipated with the "Advanced Zigbee RGBW Bulb" driver, but do work fine with the "Generic Zigbee RGBW Light" driver. The bulbs identify themselves as: [Untitled] CT ranges from 2700-6500K. The bulbs put out plenty of light in CT mode. Color reproduction in RGB mode is pretty good - at least as good as Sengled (examples below), but at a level of 100%, the lumens output is a…