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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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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A few years ago, I declared to my family that if they bring any "smart" appliances into the house, they (the appliances) would get the sledgehammer. They (the family) didn't understand why.

Now they understand.

[–] EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.world 18 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.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My father when my mom brought home "smart outlets": "The coffee maker is sentient enough, I don't need it conspiring against me with the outlet."

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The machine spirits should not talk to eachother.

Especially the toaster! It will talk if it can.

[–] Imotali@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As the owner of a Victoria Arduino E1..... it is not smart. They tried. My DE1XL was the better machine, for $2,000 less.

[–] AllegedlyInsane@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Or you could learn about local only control for smart devices instead of being insane lol