Hi all to preference my question I already have a Phillips hue system but I need an additional 6 bulbs to complete my house I'm not really interested in any more hue bulbs, So I'm trying to choose between the Yeelight and Sengled bulbs to connect to HE. Any advise that anyone has connected these to HE so I can make my final decision would be greatly appreciated.
I would definitely go with Sengled since they are Zigbee and you can connect them to your hue hub or directly to Hubitat. Personally I don't want any more Wifi devices so I am staying away from yeelight.
Thx Ryan780 I was thinking as much but the Yeelights are like $8 cheaper then the Sengled bulbs. At some point I want to get away from Hue completely I'm trying to get my system totaly local.
Hue is a local integration. It is not cloud based.
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I need it to be locally intergrated with HE
Hue is a local integration. It integrated over your local lan, not over the cloud. Do you mean "natively"? That would mean that the device connects directly to Hubitat. Locally means it doesn't require a connection to a cloud to work. Hue is a local integration.
Another vote for Sengled. Folks around here really like them. I don't have one but I hate my Yeelight. Their cloud stuff is often extremely slow. I pulled it out of service because it was often seconds to respond.
Yeelight is cloud based integrations to everything because of WiFi and proprietary communication to bulb.
Sengled is direct connect to hub because of Zigbee.
The only thing that could make the Sengled a bad experience is a weak Zigbee mesh.
Sorry yes Ryan I mean natively
Ok the sounds good Codahq
SOLVED. 
It sounds like Saving money might be buying buying Problems.
Are you sure? When the integration was being worked on for Hubitat, Patrick said it would be local. I don't have any to confirm. I'd just be surprised if it weren't. Yeelight has released an ST DTH, which of course won't run locally unless ST bakes it in and lets it, but I know they're at least discoverable over a LAN connection...
Regardless, I'd consider Sengled the better choice. A few wifi bulbs are probably OK, but I wouldn't want to fill my house with a ton. Sengled is the only Zigbee bulb I'd trust directly connected to Hubitat (unless that hub has no other type of Zigbee device), but if I had a Hue hub (and I do), I'd probably keep using that. But totally your choice!
Oh. I didn't realize that they were friendly like that. If you can avoid their cloud then go Yeelight if you want. Is there a way to configure them without the app and an account aka connect to the local AP and pass WiFi credentials manually?
Yeelight is 100 percent local after you tell each bulb to allow lan connections using their app.
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Ok just to make sure I can run these without issue what would be the best zigbee devices to be repeaters so the mesh stays good.
I still haven't found the best zigbee repeater. You will be told that the Ikea plugs are the best repeaters. I will tell you that they are reliable repeaters because they handle all kinds of devices without dropping them (they will work with the cheap Xiaomi devices) and they are cheap. However, I own three of them and I think they are big and ugly.
I'm still on the lookout for the best zigbee repeater.
In my opinion, it's an Xbee, but it takes a bit of work to set up and doesn't serve any function except repeating. It's also not super pretty (you'd probably have to 3D print a tiny case of you want to hide it a bit), but it's USB-powered, fairly small (especially if you use a smaller board than the Grove to power it), and able to fit/hide in a lot of places. It seems to have a strong and attractive signal (even the non-Pro) for end devices, along with a fairly large child capacity (around 12, if I remember). The Ikea outlet is cheap and uncharacteristically pre-assembled, but it doesn't seem to have as strong of a signal, and I'm not sure how many children it can handle. But you'll at least get a function, a Zigbee outlet, out of it. 
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Are the peanut plugs any good.
Uncharacteristically pre-assembled. Ha ha ha. Best comment today 
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FWIW, the I've been able to get only 6 end devices on an Ikea plug. My Xbee3's have a 14 end device capacity.
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