Well after making the changes suggested by malonip I can say the results look good! It’s only been about a day (over 24 hours) but I usually have several light disconnect by now. I have 7 lights and a light strip that I am leaving on during my test. All are available.
I’m sure there was some update that occurred last summer as prior to day last July as prior to that everything was rock solid. So seems like unifi made low bandwidth and low activity devices get kicked off the network. I still think wiz can do a better job of reconnecting. I have a bunch of different devices on my network and this is the only product that does this. I even have esp32 devices that act right (wiz is based on esp I believe so there is no reason)
Anyway I can’t thank you enough. I had resorted to cutting power via my smart switches. I should be able to go back to my intended use case of keeping power and control the on/off state at the light.
Thanks again!
P.s. I should add that make sure to cut power to the lights after making the changes on your unifi AP. Wait for AP to reboot after the settings change and then recycle power to the lights.
It’s worth mentioning all the above suggestions are very good (splitting the 2.4g and 5g wifi names, binding lights to the closest AP, etc) are all good suggestions and should be considered best practice.