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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
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As long as you can find devices which let you do local only setup…
True, but thankfully there are a lot of choices in that space, and it's constantly growing. And if there aren't, a lot of times it's possible to make one (or buy someone's) using an esp32 or similar. Zigbee, zwave, and matter devices should all be possible to run local only.