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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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[–] ZC3rr0r 56 points 1 year ago (5 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 (4 children)

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

[–] [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

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