cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/250090
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Good that I didn’t buy, then.
Since the Hue bulbs are using the Zigbee standard, you can still safely buy them in the foreseeable future and just connect it with something like SkyConnect, zzh!, Conbee, etc. and use it with Home Assistant
If it’s proprietary, it’ll be enshittified as soon as shareholder value demands.
Can we stop the overuse and over-generalization of “enshitification” which Doctorow had given very explicit meaning to in regards to social networks? It does not simply mean commoditization which is not quite the same but almost synonymous with 'race to the bottom’s in regards of trying to increase revenue while simultaneously decreasing costs.
Edit: I’ll admit narrowing to “social networks” is a bit too narrow, but the point still stands that it’s for two way platforms where there are “two markets.” Phillips Hue does not have a two sided market.
The enshitification of enshitification
Are phillips things reflashable with esphome/tasmota? I’m not a huge fan of tuya, but so fari have been able to reflash/rebrain everything i gave bought from them. It should be a lot easier though :/
There is no need to reflash them. Thy’re zigbee, you can just connect them to a different hub or to a zigbee dongle.
It sucks. Any other compatible app, free or paid, that let you set routines like alarm clocks and that worth it?
Probably home assistant? Thats what I use.
(this is the homeassistant community)
I don’t even know why people still use Hue anymore. It’s overpriced and zigbee and matter exist.
Hue uses Zigbee though, doesn’t it? In my experience they’re the most reliable Zigbee lights with the most consistent light output, and work very well as routers.
I agree that Hue bulbs are expensive compared to others but they generally are considered some of the best bulbs for color accuracy and build quality. I’ve considered getting Hue bulbs before but definitely wont be now.
Lol next step it will demand your WiFi password to always be online, because why not.
The step afterward you ll have 5 “room light subscription options, offering different service for high demanding customers”
Didn’t amazon want to be able to secretly piggiback on other known WiFi networks of other wifis known to amazon through connected devices, when some users would refuse to connect their decides to their WiFi? I think I remember something like that, but don’t know what came of it. Might have just been a nightmare.
I am sorry to announce you this is totally real and is called «mesh network». I believe, (rotten) apple does the same
