Mastodawn

Home Assistant Sep 22, 2023

For over a decade Philips Hue offered lights that work without sharing your data to the cloud. This is changing soon and we need your help to make some noise to convince them to revert this decision.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

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[Update Oct 2: data sharing to become optional] Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud

To control your lights you soon need to create an account and share your data with the Hue cloud.

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AlexanderMars

@homeassistant I’ll stick to the switch on the wall: worked great for the last 45 years, no privacy settings to worry about. Home automation, smart assistants and all this IOT rubbish is turning our homes into Peewee’s play house. Soon your smart couch will be reminding you to cut out the garlic powder because your farts stink too much, and everyone will scream because farts is the word of the day. Fuck, I hope I die before that’s reality.