To control your lights you soon need to create an account and share your data with the Hue cloud.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    31•9 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      30•9 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]English
        7•9 months 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•9 months 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.

        • CodingSquirrel
          4•9 months 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.