I’ve gone through “a bunch” (to me, not you y’all) of smart bulbs, almost all controlled though Alexa. Almost all of them have at some time become disconnected to where Alexa can’t talk to the service that actually controls the bulb. All these miscreants are wifi bulbs, the handful of Hue lights didn’t have this issue when I had them. Usually I have to reset the bulb and sometimes I can get to reconnect (I have a handful of Sylvania bulbs that refuse to reconnect). The other day I had a Kasa plug drop off. That one came back after unplugging it and plugging it back in.

Finally the questions: Is this phenomenon more prevalent in wifi bulbs than anything else? I assume so, devices not needing the mother ship in the cloud won’t suffer from a loss of connection to her. Is this more prevalent one one controlling cloud (Alexa vs Google vs Homekit vs Flying Spaghetti Monster)? This has happened over the course of a couple of different routers and connectivity scenarios so I don’t think that’s necessarily at fault but I could be wrong. Thoughts?

PS: For a bulb I can unscrew it or toggle the controlling switch, for a plug I can un/replug it. What does one do to reset a ismart outlet or smart switch?