I know how things work. I’m still using the hue app, but I added my hue bridge to my home assistant (running on a core i5 micro system, instead of a raspberry Pi), and I’ve been replacing my lights with zwave bulbs from inovelli as they break or stop working (or were just adding new lights to the system).

I’m struggling with how to grant outside access right now. Either I’m going to use zerotier or do a global redirect through a port forward or reverse proxy or something. Maybe a CloudFlare thing… I dunno. I haven’t decided, but the need to connect from outside the house is pretty small, so I’m not in a rush to make a decision.

I’ll eventually get rid of hue. By comparison, the bulbs are pretty dim, but bluntly, they’re pretty old now, some are starting to fail. Takes a long time for LED bulbs to fail, so it probably won’t be long now.