I’m planning to put HA on a pi, with a usb antenna
I can’t decide which bulbs to use, Philips hue looks great but it’s pricey and I’m pretty sure it’s got too much “phone home” crap. I don’t want anything to leave my network. If I can use Hue bulbs without the hub, or block the hub from phoning home I would consider it?
I found some Sengled bulbs that look fine, but I don’t know if they are any good.
Can someone recommend some decent bulbs? Colour ones preferably, but white is OK too.
Any other advice? Got a home server, so can host just about anything to get this working together.
For me i did. It was buggy on a rasp all the time. Plus from time to time memory would clog up and the instance would stop functioning. Haven’t had any issues since upgrading to the nuc. It just works and I migrated all devices to USB radios. So Bluetooth, Zigbee, zwave, serial power meter, serial heat meter, serial ups, everything just connects without hubs or anything.
Would definitely recommend! Just get a cheap second hand one on eBay or so.