Matthew ,I wish I'd gone your route and just gotten the GE bulbs. Although I have no clue where I would use 60 bulbs. I bought 2 of the Wink Spotters to get my $1 hub.
Then bought a bunch of TCP bulbs ( since they were on the same display as compatible, which of course I found out was not true. You need to have the TCP hub and Greenwave account, the Wink app just links to your TCP/Greenwave account . I have about 20 now between GE and TCP and that pretty much covers the house as far as every socket that can accept an A19 bulb. I do wish somebody would come out with a smart bulb with the smaller E12 candelabra base.
Then I bought 2 of the Honeywell "wink compatible " WiFi thermostats to once again find out that they in no way connect to the Wink. You link your Honeywell connect account in Wink App and Wink will display the current temp ( best part of this is the app shows an average of all your linked thermostats and all other temp sensors. So mine usually showed between 40* and 60* ANY ATTEMPT to change the set temp through Wink app is sent through Honeywell connect as a PERMANENT change. Wink logs also showed that Wink just loved to randomly adjust the temp ( as I mentioned in earlier post ) and yes those were sent to thermostat as a permanent change. IMPO the random temperature changes probably had to do with Wink averaging all temps, so it raised my thermostats to 80* in the attempt to make up for the outdoor temp sensors reading 20*.
Wink support was fairly good at the beginning. In September I got a notification that they were sending me one of the yet to be released (at the time) Wink Relays to Beta test for them before they were released in Nov/Dec. Then it seems in late October (about the time their "cute" robot ads started airing) they apparently made a conscious corporate decision to just bury their heads in the sand and deny any and all customer issues. By late November you saw several user forums about Wink issues suddenly disappear from the web. I never did get my Relay to play with.
I will admit that my experience with Wink gave me serious thought and doubts about investing my time and money in A+. If a company with a wallet as deep as GE and Home Depot can't make a reliable product ,what hope was there for Securifi ? I missed out on the Kickstarter, but followed along in the forum, Facebook ,and updates about all the delays in going to market.
The big factor in my decision to invest, was Securifi's consistent admission that they know there are issues and are working on them. They don't want a product that doesn't work. Something Wink stopped doing after about 3 months. The fact I had already invested thousands of dollars in supposedly Wink enabled products that I couldn't use helped too.
As long as Securifi keeps acknowledging issues and promising to be working on a solution, I will continue to support them. I have no problems Beta testing, but when a company pushes a product out knowing it is a Beta release, then stops supporting it and ignoring customer issues, then I have a problem.