Zigbee RGBW Downlight suggestions?

💡 Lighting
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I am moving into a new house and installing overhead lighting throughout. I would like color-adjustable zigbee 4-inch downlights. There are obviously many options out there for normal LEDs that would work with a smart dimmer, but that provides no control over color-temp. Does anyone have recommendations other than the very expensive Hue options?

There seem to be a number of much cheaper wifi options available, including HALO and Wiz, but I worry about relying on wifi and a company's api over a long term investment like overhead lights. I also don't know that the effect would be of adding 30+ new wifi devices to my network.

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I have had luck with Giderwel RGBW controllers, but I have not purchased their downlights before. These are ZigBee 3.0 so should work with Hubitat just fine and appear to be reasonably priced compared to similar (non-ZigBee) lights:
https://www.amazon.com/GIDERWEL-Recessed-Downlight-Dimmable-Lighting/dp/B0C7GN9KZS

Of course, you may find them cheaper elsewhere. This is just the quick/easy example.

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I bought all different types and settled back on hue.

I spent more money trying to find good ones then if I would have just bought the hue lights upfront.

Hue is rock solid, the integrations like Cocohue work swell.

Everything else I used flaked out in some way over time. My hue bulbs in various applications are still going strong 10 years later

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Thank you for the suggestion. I can report that I bought this from Amazon to test and it functions well. It's on the small side--the exposed lighting area is more like 3.25 inches. Its peak brightness is not bright enough for my purposes (using a number of them for the main overhead lighting in rooms throughout the house) but it would be more than sufficient for many areas where a super-bright light may not be required--accent lighting, etc.