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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)
submitted 2 years ago by Remontoire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5717757

Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows them to store the data and share it with partners.

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Glad I was always broke enough to not buy their bulbs

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 2 years ago

[–] FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Been on the fence about these for a while. Guess they made up my mind for me. Thanks!

[–] Pat12@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

isn't hue a kind of vietnamese soup? bun bo hue?

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[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

oh wow. i have the GE cync bulbs, everyone says hue is better [which may well be true, the cync app is complete ass + trying to connect / troubleshoot] but maybe this evens things

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Just get a bulb pre-flashed work either Tasmota or ESPHome. (ESPHome integrates well into home assistant, Tasmota is otherwise a bit more well rounded, but they're both great)

https://templates.blakadder.com/preflashed.html

https://kaufha.com/blf10/

https://www.athom.tech/blank-1/15w-color-bulb-for-esphome

[–] chocoboi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does that mean they're abandoning zigbee and not adopting Matter/Thread?

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 3 points 2 years ago

They’ve already adopted matter.

[–] Teal@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I’m not going to create an account. What I will be doing is looking for an alternative setup that is simple and completely local or just go back to traditional led bulbs.

This is easy for me with just one room using Hue. I feel for those who have them for all or most lighting around their home.

[–] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A raspberry pi4, Home Assistant software, a zigbee dongle, and any zigbee-compatible smart bulb.

By default, the traffic never leaves your local network, and all your smart-crap still works if the internet goes out. At one point, it had a learning curve like a brick wall, but over the last year or two, they've done a spectacular job of improving the user experience. it's still not perfect, but it's far better than the commercial alternatives and won't harvest your entire life for metadata it can sell.

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