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Privacy friendly smart bulbs recommendations (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by It0m@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi, i have been using smart lamps from aliexpress for awhile now. But these lamps force me to connect to an android app that phones-home to Beijing. Without the chinese yeelight app, i cannot change the color of the lamps. I find that kind of creepy.

Is there a good smart lamp system that is privacy respecting and hopefully opensource?

One that is locked to my local lan instead of a chinese trojan horse that spy's on me 24/7.

I'm an arch linux user and i know some basic python scripting.

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[–] godless@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A simple network sniffer is enough to figure out what sites the app is connecting to, then you can just block them on the router.

If you are using Android, you can do that easily right on your phone with PCAPdroid, it's on the play store. No root required.