cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/stallmanwasright@lemmy.ml/t/487981
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.
(more in the article)
I’ve now got a fun task of migrating my lamps over to zigbee, it seems!
Depending on how it goes, I might put a post up about it.
Edit: I will put a post with more detail when I have a second, but I’ve managed to move mine.
If you have a hub, the process is to delete the bulb in the hub, then immediately search with Zigbee (I use ZHA).
The bulb should show up (you may need to power cycle it if it’s not appeared within 10s or so)
Functional differences:
Positive: Bulbs respond more reliably when controlled from HomeAssistant.
Negative: Changes don’t seem to be “smoothed”, and only update twice per second. This is not a big deal for me, but it is noticable when dimming the light, or scrolling through the colour palette. Though interestingly, “colour loop” is able to scroll colours smoothly.
If anyone would like to buy some hub hubs, let me know ;)
ZHA and z2mqtt are both pretty good and stable these days, it wont’ be as painful as you might think
I just did it (admittedly with IKEA bulbs) but it was all very straightforward- I just put them in pairing mode and ZHA spotted them and scooped them up. The only hassle would be updating your automations but that should, hopefully, only take a few minutes.