Why is this system so broke

[desertblade (Ben W)]

There seems to be alot of issues with the GE bulbs. I don’t have any so I can’t speak to them, but using zWave in wall switches and Hue Bulbs through the Hue Bridge has been working pretty solidly.

The GE bulbs seem to loose programming easily, an accidentally light switch turned off then back on can sometimes do it. This thread talks about it and an updated device driver the works better.

GE Link Bulbs no more useful than standard LED's?

So I have about 13 or so of these bulbs and little by little they are losing programming. I am unable to control them by the app and they do not report correctly (using pollster and shared ge link app). It’s next to impossible to keep others in the house (or guests) from using the standard light switches which apparently causes the bulbs to eventually lose programming. Understanding that this is how the bulbs reset themselves (in a particular pattern of course) than are they resetting or is there something else going on? Thus far I’ve been able to exclude / include and get them working again, but it isn’t long before manual activity of the switch causes them to lose control via the app. I am on the most recent firmware for zigbee…very frustrating.