I did not have to do that. All I did was make sure they were named exactly what I wanted them to be named. I did not uninstall any bulbs. I believe your issue is an ST bug. I doubt it has anything to do with your network at this point. Even if ST has picked up a different address for your hub due to dhcp that is still an ST bug. ST poorly handles devices that use DHCP, but the solution should not be assign static IP addresses to everything.
Understood and agreed. I was just thinking of what might be different between Ron’s setup and yours, and I know he has multiple routers, only one of which assigns DHCP addresses. So I just wondered if there could be anything in that which made his re installation take a different branch. But like I said, not necessarily applicable.
I had followed @Mike_Maxwell ’s suggestion to the fullest extent and believe me it has made a tremendous difference except for of course the Hue’s when operated thru ST which I do not believe is interference related in my case.
As an average user (although in IT but mostly dealing in finance/investment related s/w architecting, I am not an expert in networking).
But this is what I did with three AEBS routers (Two 6th gens and one 5th gen).
All the routers are on fixed channels for 2.4 GHz wifi which is 1, 6 and 11.
5 GHz is in auto mode (I should change this). They are all connected via Ethernet (Cat7 - because these are flat and shielded) and spread across the home on different floors (split level house) and is a roaming network. The entire Ethernet setup is cat7, the only reason being…