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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 1 year 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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[–] airman@infosec.pub 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This was the final push I needed to switch over to Home Assistant and their hub. I needed a simple plug and play solution and Green delivered.

Migrates the lights, curtains, and will migrate more.

Fuck proprietary hubs and technology, and fuck me for buying into that shit in the first place.

Open source Matter/Zigbee/Zwave when?

[–] bobbi_d2@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I built my own, based on https://github.com/rmd6502/esp_lights

[–] airman@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

This is also a really good resource. I’ll take a look and save it to my to do list!

Thanks!!

[–] akrot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Iwish I had the time

[–] commandar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The HA SkyConnect does Zigbee and will eventually add Matter support. Z-wave needs a separate dongle, though.

I've literally been in the process of migrating all my Home Automation from SmartThings to HA over the past couple of weeks. I have a mix of Zigbee, Z-wave, and WiFi devices. The HA side has honestly been easier to set up than SmartThings was in the first place.

I've also been working on getting some cameras set up with Frigate and Coral object recognition. That part has been more involved, but I'm pretty happy with the functionality so far.

I've definitely been happy with my decision years ago to stick to devices using standard local protocols. Has made the whole process far less painful than it could have been.

Funny enough, one of the few things I have that uses a proprietary hub/app are my Hue bulbs -- they were my first dip into home automation a decade ago. I haven't ditched the Hue hub quite yet, but moves like this definitely make me more inclined to.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

The Hue Hub (for now) has a nice and easy REST API to control the lights.

[–] airman@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

This is extremely informative. Yes, I got the SkyConnect and it’s working flawlessly.

I meant I wish we can see a FOSS alternative to these propriety standards.

Same here tho. I started with Hue and now I’ll just keep their lights fuck their hubs and accounts and cloud.

Going forward I’ll buy whatever as long as it satisfies what I need and connects to HA Green.

FOSS for the absolute win!