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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

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 19 points 1 year ago

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.

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