Philips Hue White & Color A19 Starter Kit

I found this set to be very underwhelming. I bought it for my outside lights for Halloween and Christmas. My hub is located ion my office with the first set of lights no more than 8' away by the front door. The next bub is another 8' from the first bulb. 4 is about 18' from bulb 2 (they have a garage door between them. and the last bulb is about 10 feet from the previous bulb having a small 8' garage door in between the two bulbs.So the furthest bulb sits about 30' from the hub (line of sight) and the next closest bulb is about 22' from the hub.Those two bulbs 22' and 30' seem to always have connection issues. they just don't change color as quickly as the ones closer to the hub,Color wise they are ok, they are not very bright when set to some colors Philips is pretty upfront with you on that, they spell out how many lumens the bulbs are when in color and the reality is it's a pretty severe drop from 800 lumens to as low as 300 lumens in color.My last complaint is with the philips app. It does not work with tablets only phones. I even have a Samsung International tablet with Tmobile service that you can make phone calls on and the app won't load on it. You can use the gen 1 app but that really is a terrible app.I just bought some lightify 9pc landscape lights that I am going to try out and see what they look like. If I like them I may try out some of their bulbs since I already have a lightify hub.Lastly I have seen a lot of places selling second gen sets as 3rd gen. The 3rd gen boxes all have that little green image on top of the bulb on the box. If you don't see the little green symbol, it's not a 3rd gen set (or bulb).UPDATEI have had my set over a month. I found a couple of good apps in the windows store to control teh lights from a computer instead of a phone. works out pretty good.I am using Huetro for Hue and HueDynamic. I prefer Huetro as the scenes seem brighter. I did contact the developer of HueDynamic and he was very responsive and even made some immediate improvements.I sort-a fixed the communication issue by getting a 20' cat5 cable and mounting the hub directly on the front wall of my house. So while it was only a move of 12' within the same room, it seems to have fixed the connection issue.Sadly even though Philips claims these run off wifi signal, it receives its signal from the hub. I inquired if running a wifi access point in teh garage would help but was told no, the hub is what needs to be closer.I guess my disappointment is, you sell a home automation product that has pretty limited range capabilities. I even went as far as asking if I could use multiple hubs and they said no.So I guess that since my hub is on teh front of the house Hue won't work in the Family room or play room? Probably not being that those two rooms are on the back of teh house.Seems short-sighted to not have a range boosting antenna on the hub, Probably would not have cost much and would have drastically made the product more usable.