Troubleshooting GE Link Lights

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Do you live in California? Do you have an iTron/Openway smart meter for your house?

Issues Connecting with Cree Connected Bulbs

All, Up until a couple of days ago I was ready to toss these bulbs in the trash (Really Just Return them) but after a nearly 2 hour phone call with Cree the engineer brought up a seemingly isolated oddity that’s related. In California the energy companies there have replace the analog power meters with digital AMI (Smart Meters) in particular a brand called iTron. Users of the Cree bulbs have reported pairing problems with their Smartthings Hubs and it turns out that those meters use the Zigbee protocol to communicate statistics back to the energy company. The RF signal is generated in an Omni-Directional manner so it has and does interfere with the communications of the Cree bulbs and I assume other Zigbee devices. After my long discussion with the engineer and the inability to get ANY…