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Smart light bulb suggestions (lemmy.trippy.pizza)
submitted 3 days ago by dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I'm completely out of the smart lights loop and I'm looking for light bulbs that allow me to set brightness, color temperature and possibly the color in general using HA.

I see a lot of people recommending zigbee bulbs, which is fine, I just need to buy a dongle, but I already have an isolated wifi network with no internet access that I use to control smart stuff from my home server, so something with wifi would be ideal. I want something that I can just screw in and control from my server with no proprietary apps needed for the initial configuration.

Can you give me some recommendations?

Thanks

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[-] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

Philips has chaned their policy a while back and now they collect telemetry data from their bulbs: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This only applies if you use their bridge and the bridge is connected to the internet. If you do what I said in my comment (zigbee2mqtt addon with dongle) then there is no path for them to collect. The Zigbee2Mqtt addon allows for firmware updates.

[-] sandro@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Does this only apply when using the Hue integration in Home Assistant, or does it also apply when the devices are connected via Zigbee? Do they require you to use the Hue mobile app for the initial pairing?

[-] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

I don't have any Hue devices so I don't follow that too closely, but there's quite a bit of info on the changes at The Verge which is linked on top of that previous blog post on my comment. Apparently you'll need an account to get firmware updates and enabling functionality, but not continous connectivity.

But maybe more important point here is that they have changed their policy and there's nothing stopping them from changing it again, potentially even removing functionality unless you use their app.

[-] Badabinski@kbin.earth 2 points 3 days ago

If they stop zigbee2mqtt from automagically updating their bulbs then they're dead to me.

[-] Lyra_Lycan 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's okay for me, because I don't use their bridge the Hue Hub, or their app.

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