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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5717757

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.

  • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.caEnglish
    56·
    1 year ago

    Well, look who’s looking like an idiot for setting up my entire house with Hue lights recently after running two bulbs with local control for years… sigh it’s getting mighty frustrating having to deal with companies hoarding your data.

      • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.caEnglish
        25·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I’ll look into that. It’s just a shame to have to do extra work and spend extra money because a company decides to screw you over after your purchase.

      • AllegedlyInsane@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        They do, that’s how I control mine. They haven’t been connected to a hurricane bridge in over a year at this point