Had the same experience when I was setting up mine. First I ordered some wifi connected bulbs, but had to send them back upon realizing the idiocy of having a

Had the same experience when I was setting up mine. First I ordered some wifi connected bulbs, but had to send them back upon realizing the idiocy of having a bulb that can connect to the internet. Their recommended approach for using it was to set it up with a cloud service. While I could've just used a separate offline wifi network, I too ended up going for Zigbee bulbs instead. Got a Zigbee dongle and set it up on my server with zigbee2mqtt and home assistant. Has worked flawlessly for years.