I programmed it as a dimmer light and it connects to my Wink Hub 2 and stays connected. No issues. I didnt use the arduino IDE but instead went to directly programming with the NXP BeyondStudio and SDK. This is surely the more difficult route but I get the raw/power-user experience. No issues programming this board if you get the UartsBee v5 which I consider a must. NXP IDE+SDK is not simple, it's a bookshelf's worth of PDFs to read but is well documented and has many Home Automation examples which I played around with first. You might also want to look into a hardware debugger like JTAGKey2 or the Bus Blaster (not Bus Pirate) from Dangerous Prototypes if you are going to do serious work.