One sentence to add
"Rome wasn't built in a day"
Welcome to the rabbit hole. We'll see you on the other side.
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Good attitude to start with 
Also, made a typo in the docs link I posted before. Fixed now.
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Oh I'll have plenty of sleepless nights I'll be up tinkering to get things working, lmao. Especially if I break something trying to get a new thing set up.... Killed my Linux server once that had all of our TV shows and music on, that made for a very low WAF... That's when I went to virtual machine, lol and I testing things before putting them into production... Which I'll be making backups of things for the HE before I do anything big. (Haven't yet because it's all just been for fun and if I had to start over it's not in production yet, that's when backups are needed).
Just want to get off this stupid wink hub that doesn't reliably control my lights..... It pisses me off almost more than it helps me, lol.
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You will, in time, come to realize, that Wink's attempt to screw you over, has brought you to a place, a place where stuff just works and dam it's fast as hell.
Be ready to be amazed.
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Oh I'm already happy for the change. I have hated wink for a while, but it wasn't worth moving things as we didn't spend enough time in the house, more time in our RV. But when wink wanted to charged it became worth moving and that motivated me to design a smart RV... Which local control made the most sense...
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You should check in with @srwhite about RV enhancements... he's the author of the awesome HubConnect app and has done a lot of fun stuff with his RV...
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I've already posted over there, he's got a lot of cool stuff good on for sure!
Oh man.... Now I'm having issues with the UPS I was plugging my equipment into.... Good times... Lol
Or not... That was a pebkac error.. lol.
My phone apparently decided to connect to my guest WiFi, which is fully isolated from the rest of my network on a separate vlan.... So it saw the hub offline, I just assumed it was the UPS causing issues because it was giving me issues powering up the hub... Oh well at least I don't need a new UPS and I can start tinkering
It's time to setup VPN server for access. I use wireguard on my main Vlan to access all the other Vlans. All Vlans are isolated and only my main Vlan have access to the rest. It's a one way access. This way, I can stay on the guest wifi with my phone and when needed. I just turn on Wireguard. No more multiples wifi SSIDs.
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I do need to step up my network game and wireguard looks pretty awesome... Openvpn was a PITA getting working, lol. Just got l have to repurpose my old media server over to my new network, setting up for mobile life with sim card data options which is why my router only has 1 Ethernet out port too, lol. Have to change my subnet on the Linux box and get it hooked up to the new switch... And start getting these virtual machines running again. Looking to do pihole, wireguard (now), probably home assistant to play with because why not, and a who knows what else...
Oh and I just got my first device off of wink and onto HE. Well.. it was one of the zigbee bulbs I had that issues with it staying connected to wink... Paired quick and easy to HE, and my daughter's happy because it was her bedside lamp, that hasn't worked for 2 days...
Think the hardest thing for this whole change is going to be the whole resetting the devices , remembering how to do that (only thing wink did okay was giving you those instructions, but half the time they didn't work).
The only thing I have to change is going to be the wink relay's that I have... Remove them because they suck anyway... And I have some iris buttons coming in a few days that I can set for trigger where those were. Losing two smart lights from that... A floor lamp in my bedroom that we don't use often anyway.. and the foyer light, which again we don't use very often.
Uh oh...
Zigbee bulbs are special. What brand is it?
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Please don't say GE link. I sold 15 of them for next to nothing. Same for GE outlink outlets. Bought for thousands and sold for peanuts 
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I have Cree and Sylvania. The Cree ones worked great for us on wink. The Sylvania ones not as much but it's also in a kids room where they decide to play with lights and probably have reset it a half dozen times lmao.
Actually they gave me the most headaches reconnecting with power outage situations.
But these are only for a bit while we're here, won't be using them in our RV.
I had Crees - thought they were good until they started to die on me but this was pre-HE days. Also not sure if they act as repeaters or not. If they do then that may mess with your Zigbee mesh.
For HE - Sengleds seem to be the way to go right now as they don't repeat and are fairly decent quality for the price. I have had some oddness when using the HE driver for Sengled but the generic ones seems to be okay.
Also recently took delivery on some Inovelli Ilumin Z-Wave bulbs. Am interested in seeing how they work.
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Okay ran into my first headache... I set up my HE, set up the Alexa skill with my test sensors, everything showed up fine no issues, got Alexa to notify when they changed, awesome stuff.. I added two lights that were previously on wink to HE, they connected and work perfect, I went into the Alexa skill app in HE and added them to my devices so I could voice control them... But they would never show up in my Alexa app. (Part of the WAF is making voice control seamless during the transition).
I tried discovering devices in the Alexa app they wouldn't show up nothing.
The only way I could get it to add the 2 new lights was disable and re-enable the HE skill in Alexa... After that it discovered and and saw the two lights and could then add them to my rooms to make voice control...
Is this going to be the case, or did I miss something? Having to do that extra couple steps each time I add something is going to suck because I have to add the devices all back to the Alexa group each time..... And I have 9 or 10 lights with 5 or 6 groups.. and putting them all back to add something new to the hub each time is going to get really old and I'm going to forget or miss something... Which will cause issues with the known voice controls...
Any tips here?
I use GH so hopefully someone better will come along, but for now in GH you need to go into the GH app within HE. Once your in there you can tick the additional device you need. Then you go to GH and if there not already there ask G to sync my device and the new ones appear. Nothing happens to the old ones unless you removed them, so I'm assuming you need to do something similar for "she who should not be named" 
There is also I believe 2 apps for her? A old one and newer skill or something like that? Which one are you using.
Edit yes "app" and "skill" not sure which one is the better one.
That also works for Alexa.
It also seems that if you wait a bit after selecting them in Hubitat, they sync by themselves. I have had them nearly instantly appear after updating the list in Hubitat, to maybe an hour later.
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