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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] 1 points 1 year ago

I just did it (admittedly with IKEA bulbs) but it was all very straightforward- I just put them in pairing mode and ZHA spotted them and scooped them up. The only hassle would be updating your automations but that should, hopefully, only take a few minutes.