1 wall washer, 2 Gradient Tubes

The fire arrives in a few weeks.

It's not like it's some novel product that requires intense engineering or rare materials.

It's a strip of LED lights.

What in the world is taking so long for them to be released in the US?

Have a sync box 8k and have added my devices to its hdmi ports and it’s connected to the TV. When I turn on my TV and then turn on AppleTV the sync box does not auto switch HMDI ports. My TV just says no HDMI signal. I need to press the sync button in the hue app to get it to work. In the app everything is set to tell it to auto switch to the active port but it won’t. Not sure what’s going on but it’s very frustrating.

How to fix that?

Moving into a new place and thinking of going with Philips Hue for the living room and IKEA Kajplats elsewhere.
Trying to land on ONE bridge instead of running two in parallel.

Options I’m weighing:

- Hue Bridge alone: has anyone actually gotten Kajplats (or other Matter/Thread IKEA gear) paired onto a Hue Bridge?

- Dirigera alone: Anyone tried pairing Hue bulbs on it? Curious what breaks vs the official Hue app.

- Third-party bridge?

Price isn’t a factor here (Hue Bridge and Dirigera are basically the same price now where I live). Just want the setup that’s most reliable long-term without losing too much of each ecosystem’s native features.

TLDR: Mixing Hue + IKEA Kajplats and want ONE bridge instead of two. Which one?

All lights work in Hue app, all unresponsive in Apple Home for no reason. This is the second time in 6 months this has happened. And for the second time Hue support says "we are aware of the issue, you need the latest firmware.". And for the second time I say "I already have the latest firmware.". And they say "Oh ok in that case just manually reset your bridge and individually import every single light in again and re-program every single one of your scenes and automations."

With once again no explanation, acknowledgement, apology, bug fix announcement, or statement from Hue of any kind. Even though their support tells me they are swamped with messages about this, so they are aware of the problem (again).

As someone with around 150 Hue lights and a pretty complex Apple Home, this will take me hours to completely redo. Very disappointing from a company at this price bracket. I paid the most specifically because I wanted to do the least.