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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] 9 points 2 years ago

Glad I was always broke enough to not buy their bulbs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Been on the fence about these for a while. Guess they made up my mind for me. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

isn't hue a kind of vietnamese soup? bun bo hue?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Just get a bulb pre-flashed work either Tasmota or ESPHome. (ESPHome integrates well into home assistant, Tasmota is otherwise a bit more well rounded, but they're both great)

https://templates.blakadder.com/preflashed.html

https://kaufha.com/blf10/

https://www.athom.tech/blank-1/15w-color-bulb-for-esphome

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

oh wow. i have the GE cync bulbs, everyone says hue is better [which may well be true, the cync app is complete ass + trying to connect / troubleshoot] but maybe this evens things

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hue Cloud < Hucow

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