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

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.

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  • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.socialOP
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    9 months ago

    This really sucks because I paid a shit ton for these bulbs vs their competitors because I liked that they allowed local control natively without needing to mess around with anything to get it to work and had a quality product … Had I known this would happen I definitely would not have paid the hefty surcharge I did and would have gone with a competing product.

    I personally know others who made the same decision. Sounds like a class action suit, similar to when Sony removed the ability to install linux from the PS3.