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Many devices fail to pair with Home Assistant. However, smart bulbs all work very well when they have Zigbee.
If you just want some lights that work, I would recommend picking some random Zigbee bulbs up from AliExpress. Far cheaper than the name brand stuff. Else IKEA also works.