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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/487981

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This will only get worse, enshittification goes faster and faster. Some companies (like epic with their store) are already skipping the first phase of providing value to users.

The only thing you can do is to use FOSS and hardware with open standards because those are the only things that are safe from enshittification. As a bonus you're also voting with your wallet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes indeed. I've now shifted everything over to Zigbee control through Home Assistant (just packed away another hub before reading this) and all the recent news makes me pleased I did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

did you go ZHA or z2mqtt?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ZHA and everything went smoothly (my only problem was the dongle was so big it blocked the other USB ports). Packed away the IKEA hub last night.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the dongles tend to get better reception if you use an extenion lead anyway so might be worth considering that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah well that's good to know as I used one. Reception seems solid.

My only real issue was when I changed the firmware to add in Thread Border Router functionality - it seriously degraded the performance (for no actual benefit), so I changed it straight back and haven't had an issue since.