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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do they do this shit? Is "User A turned their lights on at 9 AM" that valuable of data that they'd disable third party shit?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I guess it's because it's "insecure". Any device on the network could control the lights. Tasmota allows setting a password for the control panel though.