And how do they work in HA? Is there lots of setup with each entity because I have to talk to it over MQTT?

I noticed that Z2M seems to say it supports effects on my string lights, do you know if that also means it'll automatically show UI for setting effects in HA?

It's sounding like I made a mistake choosing ZHA thinking it was the "HA native" solution...

Everything just shows up, I don't know about string lights but everything else shows the proper UI, and some of my bulbs show RGB controls, so I assume string lights will too.

Ah, talking about effects (scenes, blinking lights, etc.) that run on the string lights processor, custom Zigbee commands, RGB controls is fairly standardised.

But from all the praise Z2M is getting here I guess I'll have to try it!

One last question if you end up seeing this, can you still group things when using Z2M?