Seeing if Philips UK will honour their 2 year warranty. Bet they will weasel out of it.
TL;DR avoid Hue bulbs, especially BLE Wifi/Zigbee White Ambience and Color model ACA0008?
1 1/2 years of random disconnects & sometimes not being seen even by their app! Suspect it needs the expensive hub.
They lie in marketing - many cases 'for compatibility' it needs the hub, but I don't want to buy a hub for ONE light?
Oddly the WiZ lights are also Signify and work great...as do the WiZ non-Signify ones. A bugger to pair sometimes but they stay paired.
Unlike the Hue - it seems if it's connected to a Zigbee network - as touted on the packet as being compatible but also connected to Alexa it often refuses to work on one or the other.
But the random disconnections happened before I started trying to use it with Zigbee via Home Assistant. It flatly refuses to work with Zigbee2MQTT and connect to HA via Bluetooth giving odd connection errors.





