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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
(www.home-assistant.io)
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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.
Home Assistant is the way. It even brought my old Music Flow speaker back to life!
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.
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."
The machine spirits should not talk to eachother.
Especially the toaster! It will talk if it can.
As the owner of a Victoria Arduino E1..... it is not smart. They tried. My DE1XL was the better machine, for $2,000 less.
Or you could learn about local only control for smart devices instead of being insane lol