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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 Remontoire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Home Assistant is the way. It even brought my old Music Flow speaker back to life!

[–] June@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Smart devices with local control are absolutely the ticket. HA is surprisingly easy once you get past figuring out how to set up the server.