I bought some FEIT rgb smartbulbs at costco (there were on sale I think it was $5 or $10 each) but yes I don't like the outsourced service (tuya), even though I

I bought some FEIT rgb smartbulbs at costco (there were on sale I think it was $5 or $10 each) but yes I don't like the outsourced service (tuya), even though I normally turn them off with a switch. I even wrote FEIT suggesting they make a slightly more expensive hobby version where you can still overwrite the esp32 firmware, etc so you don't need this "free" service and could connect the directly to say something like home assistant. I think I would willing to pay something (maybe $5) just for the keys to overwrite the firmware, like the license you have to buy for your raspberry pi to use the mpeg-2.