Sengled Zigbee bulbs

We rent, so I use Zigbee bulbs in our house. Ikea Tradfri bulbs as well as Sengled bulbs. Tradfri bulbs also act as repeaters, so help establish a good mesh. Sengled bulbs are just end devices. I did have one Sengled bluetooth bulb at first. Annoying thing, got rid of it fairly quickly due to it not functioning well.

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I like not over saturating my wi-fi with bulbs and the like so I use zigbee ones from Sengled. Mixes well with Hue when using zigbee2mqtt or zha.

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I'm not sure I agree; the only problems I've read about the online have been expecting them act as repeaters. I have nearly 100 Sengled Zigbee bulbs in my house, a mix of A19, BR30, and candelabra form factors, all in RGBW. I've also never had a single issue with any of them falling off the network. I purposefully bought them because they're end several ces and not repeaters. Also relevant: I've had them for almost two years now. This isn't a few days or a few weeks, it's been since the pandemic when I started retrofitting my entire house with various smart technologies. End devices will …

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