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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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[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was potential decisions like this that made me stop using various IoT devices in my life.

And year after year, i am proven right.

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

With Home Assistant and locally controlled devices there's no issues whatsoever. Completely locally controlled and solid as a rock ime.

[–] ratman150@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Once I heard this news I finally took the plunge on home assistant.

Been a learning curve but absolutely worth it, so much better than the first party control solutions.

[–] Asifall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as you can find devices which let you do local only setup…

[–] CodingSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

True, but thankfully there are a lot of choices in that space, and it's constantly growing. And if there aren't, a lot of times it's possible to make one (or buy someone's) using an esp32 or similar. Zigbee, zwave, and matter devices should all be possible to run local only.

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I wish I could get there. It works 90% of the time. I can't figure out what is going on between Zigbee2MQTT and actually updating state. One every week or two I need to reboot the Raspberry Pi to resolve issues. Definitely more reliable than the cloud, but I am not sure what is going on.