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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
(www.home-assistant.io)
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What is wrong with tech companies this week? Did a memo go round saying "let the enshittification begin!"?
There's no need for this move and it just seems like they felt they had enough people locked in so they could start tightening the screws.
This will only get worse, enshittification goes faster and faster. Some companies (like epic with their store) are already skipping the first phase of providing value to users.
The only thing you can do is to use FOSS and hardware with open standards because those are the only things that are safe from enshittification. As a bonus you're also voting with your wallet.
Yes indeed. I've now shifted everything over to Zigbee control through Home Assistant (just packed away another hub before reading this) and all the recent news makes me pleased I did.
did you go ZHA or z2mqtt?
ZHA and everything went smoothly (my only problem was the dongle was so big it blocked the other USB ports). Packed away the IKEA hub last night.
the dongles tend to get better reception if you use an extenion lead anyway so might be worth considering that.
Ah well that's good to know as I used one. Reception seems solid.
My only real issue was when I changed the firmware to add in Thread Border Router functionality - it seriously degraded the performance (for no actual benefit), so I changed it straight back and haven't had an issue since.