Well, glad I don’t use their products - this just ensures I never will.

Glad I moved completely away from Hue and now use mostly ZWave devices. From the article:

When asked what drove this change, the answer is the usual: security. Well Signify, you know what keeps user data even more secure? Not uploading it all to your cloud. Just allow a smart home to talk to Hue using the local API or Matter.

Security. What a load of nonsense.

Well I’m glad I have none of their bulbs, but I do use a couple ‘Wizmotes’ with Home Assistant. It uses wifi, but it’s a peer-to-peer protocol that I use an ESP to pick up. So I’m fairly sure it can’t phone home at all. They’re really handy and dirt cheap.

(Signify bought Wiz as well, that’s why some Hue stuff says “Wiz connected” on it now)

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