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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://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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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, look who's looking like an idiot for setting up my entire house with Hue lights recently after running two bulbs with local control for years... sigh it's getting mighty frustrating having to deal with companies hoarding your data.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Those lights use ZigBee, right? Should've work with HomeAssistant and a ZigBee dongle?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'll look into that. It's just a shame to have to do extra work and spend extra money because a company decides to screw you over after your purchase.

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

Know a good ZigBee dongle for home assistant?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just bought the skyconnect. It will also support Thread soon!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They do, that's how I control mine. They haven't been connected to a hurricane bridge in over a year at this point