16 hue bulbs and hub incoming. Had another light need to be cycled this morning and that was the end of it.
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Glad you're getting sorted out. Telling ya though, lifx...better than hue 
My experience: I've never had a Hue bulb overheat, fail to reconnect after a power outage, have a CRI of <90, or be denied a warranty replacement because the bulb was purchased before the company was.
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Me neither. Lifx has been damned solid.
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This is direct power to Wall, screenshot from a 60fps video on a Samsung note. It's much more visible in the video and if the room is dark.i couldn't detect this effect on the Sylvanias , not at 24,30 or 60 fps
I have a feeling now that all LEDs do this and wondering it's effects on us. 
Any lightbulb engineers out there...
Yes, all LED's control their level of intensity by quickly turning the LEDs on and off for a specific duty cycle (i.e. low duty cycle is dim, high duty cycle is bright.) Thus, given the right video capture equipment, one can detect this strobing. It is usually very hard for the human eye to discern this 'flickering', as long as the frequency of the LEDs turning on an off is high enough. I definitely could understand where some people might be more sensitive to this effect.
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So there seems to be some bad experiences with Sengled's, but there also seem to be some variations on types of Sengleds. Can anyone advise what type of Sengleds they are if they don't indicate either Element or Element color plus?
I'm looking at these:
https://www.amazon.com/Sengled-Multicolor-2000-6500K-Equivalent-Assistant/dp/B079ZLHQM9/ref=sr_1_2?crid=E9J1PM3UA09Z&keywords=Sengled%2BSmart%2BLight%2BBulb%2BStarter%2BKit&qid=1691775469&s=hi&sprefix=sengled%2Bsmart%2Blight%2Bbulb%2Bstarter%2Bkit%2Ctools%2C107&sr=1-2&th=1
Can you please provide a link to more information about this "power restored routine in the hub"
It's a custom item for power restored, what I did is keep a single Sengled bulb in the wire closet in my basement. If that light ever comes on it indicates to my hub that power is restored. I must do this since my hubs are on UPS/Battery Bank/Solar generator stack. That light is always in an "off" status. If power fails in the house the bulb will lose power and then when power restores it will turn on.
When the event that the light is "on" is received by the Habitat, I set a few rule machine rules in motion. One of them is called "reset lighting" where all my scenes are retriggered turning off the other Sengled lights that shouldn't be on at that time of day.
I hope this helps.
Coming back here to say that Swap Device App doesnāt work between native bulbs and cocohue bulbs.
In my further testing with advanced zigbee driver on Sengledās, it does appear that they will honor the device state setting, so if I was going to stay with Sengled, Iād use this driver. The issue I still have is that they drop off my mesh, which I donāt think this driver would fix.
In testing with Cocohue and the power recovery setting to ālast stateā in the Hue app; for most brief, quick outages, that setting will work. For a bunch of variable times outages in a row, the setting may not work. For these situations Iāll be putting a canary hue with power recovery set to default (on). I confirmed that cocohue will properly display this state change when power is returned to a bulb. Then Iāll restore states to other bulbs). Iāll make some updates to Smarter Bulbs app and post it here.
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Just a FYI - The Swap Device app does not work with āChildā devices, unfortunately. That is because it it would break the Parent/Child relationship. āSwap Deviceā does not make any changes to existing Apps with references to the swapped devices. Instead, it swaps some device specific settings on the two swapped devices. This is what would break the Parent/Child relationship.
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Would it make sense to have individual group/scene for each bulb and adjust automations to use those vs the bulb directly? Then I could just swap bulbs in the group vs touching all automations again.
Sure, that is definitely one approach. Personally, I don't plan on changing my bulbs again in the future, and thus I personally do not see the value in the additional work.
One thing to be aware of, is that Hue allows bulbs to be placed together in Hue groups/rooms. These groups can then be brought into Hubitat as devices. I do use these 'Hue Groups' to control multiple Hue bridge-connected bulbs simultaneously. This is more efficient and eliminates 'popcorn' effects. It also does allow me to swap out physical Hue bulbs on the Hue bridge without disrupting the Hue Groups. I did this once to replace a pair of 60W Equivalent Hue bulbs in our family room with a brighter 75W equivalent pair of Hue bulbs. Any automations on my Hubitat hub that only used the imported Hue Group continued to work great. Of course, anything that referenced the individual bulbs needed a quick tweak.
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