I 've got several Hue (and Tradfri) bulbs connected to “dumb” switches, that I regularily switch off by using this dumb switch (i.e. taking away their power). They show up as “unavailable” then, which might be technically correct, but not very elegant (because 90% of the time when the bulb is unavailible it is because I switched it off, so I want it to show just “off” in certain places of the UI).
What do other people do in that situation?
Also: Should I install a Shelly, Sonoff or similar actor instead of the dumb switch, I will get the same problem. If the Shelly switches off the Hue bulb, it is “unreachable”. But then the Shelly “knows” it has to be unreachable. Is there some elegant way to aggregate these two entities into one “kitchen light” that consists of the Shelly switch to turn off its power and the Hue bulb to change its colour?