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.

  • @StovetopEnglish
    13•9 months ago

    Glad I still have the old bridge which is not compatible with the current app, and so they offer the legacy app separately. Though I assume it’s only a matter of time before the bulbs I have die and new bulbs require the new bridge.

    • @DaroradEnglish
      8•9 months ago

      Yep, glad I have my bridge blocked off from the internet, so they can’t force an update

      • BuelldozerEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        Supposedly they will but according to others you lose some of the fine grained color control without the Hue app. I can’t say for sure because I don’t have any Hue bulbs.