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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@homeassistant I started switching every lightbulb over to zigbee. Directly controlled by #HA this afternoon. Gonna be a fun project recreate all scenes and automations.
@osfast @homeassistant what would I need to do this?
@beyondwatts @homeassistant a zigbee stick like the HA sky connect