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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Ah yes to make your lights work, we need all your data. Stuff like this is why I don't have "smart" anything.
It’s perfectly possible to have a smart home that does not call home. Home Assistant is an amazing piece of software that can allow smart devices from different manufacturers talk to each other without connecting to a cloud service — all done locally.
If i understand correctly this is Home Assistant saying that Hue is taking away that ability on devices people have already bought and installed.
That’s about the hue hub. The bulbs are still Zigbee and can be controlled 100% remotely with HA and a Zigbee dongle.
You can have plenty of smart home stuff without this junk using stuff like home assistant and keeping devices like this from phoning home. Some products won't work at all without an internet connection but plenty still do.