Hi Nathan,
In my aim to use a number of zigbee sensors I have been looking to migrate my Hue bulbs over to a zigbee network via a zigbee USB stick and the zigbee2mqtt software.
I have got this working now so that I have 5 bulbs and a number of zigbee sensors and wireless buttons / remotes connected. This uses Joe's MQTT connector to publish MQTT messages that a node-red flow picks up and onward publishes to zigbee2mqtt.
However my issue is where the network is weak I get slow reponses from the hue bulbs, or none at all. I also got this behaviour when they were connected to the Hue hub and using your plugin (and I have plans to buy some Ikea mains sockets to boost the network).
So, I was interested to know if you knew if Hue bulbs can report their state? The sensors obviously do regularly, but I read on the zigbee2mqtt forum that only Hue bulbs on very old firmware do. Is this a problem you have (or do they report to the Hue hub)? Ideally I would like to ensure that Indigo remains in sync with actual state of the bulb, not what has been requested, for when that message fails.
Thanks