Correction: it won't hold the wifi connection. It let's me go through the setup but never gets back to solid green, keeps reverting to green/orange now. It was connected for a while...

Never mind.  Switch was defective... seemed like the whole thing was toast from the start.  I swapped out both switches for a new one and now I'm in the same boat as everyone else, with the instant-shutoff if I go to 92% brightness or higher.  Seems like 91% is the same as 100% anyway, so maybe the firmware just has 100% calibrated wrong and the instant-shutoff thing is because it went over some safety threshold.  It's definitely buggy but since it'll rarely be at 100% for me I can live with it until the firmware gets caught up.  I did get one firmware update as soon as it powered up, now I'm at 1.0.8. 

I have been watching this thread and must thank all the early adopters for their work on this product.  Yes issues are there, perhaps the development lab did not have enough real world environmental features to truly ring out the full exposure a product like this would be exposed to.  I am thrilled that the "Coming Soon" is more real than ever and if I was at my second home where I installed these I too would have purchased a couple of HS230 kits to slog through the growing pains of a necessary product line addition.  As a software/firmware developer I can attest that the lab and the QC lab do not always expose a product to what is out there in the real world.  Things like pulse code modulation and power line carrier communication come into focus and a mixture of these with the fact that each LED light has its own noisy power supply pulsing away could make a very interesting and exciting work environment for a product like this.

I started this thread many years ago. Just got two sets from Amazon which I ordered before it became evident they don't work well.  While I appreciate those that are spending the time trying to figure these out, I'm returning and will wait for plug and play version. 
 

i mean, really. 

I would wait for the firmware patch to roll out.  Read my previous post on day zero patches.  The product is not "officially" out yet.

@Carl Are you able to definitively say at this time that the problem will be fixable by a firmware update? I.e., that it is definitely not a hardware related problem? The answer may matter to people who are wondering whether to return their switches now or soon.

Thanks in advance.

@jbr439 I would like to parrot this as well. Would save me the hassle with Amazon... and or TPlink RMA process. ATM i can just drop these off at Kohls Amazon return and walk away. Mega easy, VS the post office or something later when they are ineligible.