[green-salt]

Going down this route still requires the Hue hub and managing it through its ecosystem. This means if DNS is not working perfectly or the hub decides to do a mandatory update, you're stuck for a bit until the update finishes or you fix DNS. The DNS part is partially my fault but also because I was blocking all of its calls home to Phillips' servers using pihole. Finally I bought a zigbee dongle and put in the zigbee2mqtt addon for HA and paired all of my Hue bulbs/dimmers/motion sensors to it (https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/9290023351B.html), unplugged the Hue hub, and its been excellent since.

[na4ma4]

The only reason I've still got my Hue hub in use is because I have not found anything that supports ZGP and I've got 4 of the original Hue Tap buttons.

I don't have any other Hue products anymore, but the hub still runs for those 4 switches.