Did some more searching and this sounds exactly the same as what I am seeing with smart bulb mode.
They suggest to either:
- Double up the bypass
- Rewire light to maintain constant hot and send line/neutral to the switch (obviously I don’t know how to do this)
- Abandon smart bulb mode for non-neutral switches
Abandoning smart bulb mode seems doable but I’d need to reconfigure a bunch of things so that the switch is toggled before a command is sent to the bulbs (not sure how the timing here works since they will be need some delay to boot before being turned to turn on) or just never toggle bulbs and always the switch in my automations.
Doubling the bypass seems like more physical work that may not even help.
Rewiring things is more appealing than the double bypass but would require some research.
I’d like to also stress call out that I’m moving in the near future and am doing this more to learn what products to purchase for my next house (looking for new construction) and I’d rather do any experimentation here than there. Now I know to ask for neutral wires included with each switch… There was a note in the manual about houses build after the 80s having them but that didn’t turn out to be the case for mine…