this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
643 points (99.2% liked)

Technology

59111 readers
3149 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
643
Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
101 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Luvs2Spuj 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone have a good resource for connecting existing bulbs to zigbee and moving off the hue app?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I've been very happy with Home Assistant. There are zigbee USB sticks such as ConBee that work well with it, and home assistant runs on many different types of computers including Raspberry pi.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To start off, you'll want to have Home Assistant running on a local server or Raspberry Pi and a Zigbee USB dongle, like the Conbee II or SkyConnect. If you've never worked with Home Assistant, their Getting Started guide is pretty comprehensive.

To migrate the apps off the Hue gateway, there's a section describing various methods to do so in the Home Assistant Zigbee guide.

I'll mention that there's also a whole bunch of other Zigbee gateways out there that work similar to the Hue Bridge, but these could all eventually share the same fate as Hue, if they aren't already forced to be online.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cool.. I got a Phillips hue hub, but already have a Pi as well, Just never thought of using it this way. So I just need the Conbee II, and I should be able to make things work off the Pi. One less device to have plugged in.

Besides the stupid login stuff, I've noticed a lot of my stuff just isn't as reliable as it used to be. It seems Phillips is just enshittifying things generally.

Thanks for the links!