• thehatfox@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Philips are providing another demonstration of the dangers of using proprietary smart home platforms. If you don’t control the platform, you don’t control your home. The only way to avoid this is to use an open platform such as Home Assistant, which just celebrated it’s 10th birthday and continues to go from strength to strength.

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      1 year ago

      Fortunately, as I happily tested yesterday, my modern-ish Hue bulbs work with standard zigbee integrations now.
      I’m certain Philips will now release a new line that do not.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPM
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        1 year ago

        With Matter integration it would be tricky but I imagine someone on the board of directors is pushing for this.

        They may just settle on the fact that 99% of their customers won’t do this. However, HA has really worked hard to lower the bar on this - you can buy an HA Green and a ZigBee dongle, then it’s done quite quickly and easily.