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The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity (rachelbythebay.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/265688

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[–] generalEdo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this just the hues or does it include the wiz as well. I use those and they have been great so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wyze have had their own problems recently (which I haven't posted about here, I'll fix that now) but they haven't volcanically shat the bed the way Philips have.

There's no guarantee that Wyze won't try a similar move in the future and with their proprietary communication protocol (or so I believe, I don't use them) you are going to be stuck with them or you are going to have to re-buy everything. With Zigbee bulbs it's relatively easy to switch over to just running things through HA and you can get rid of the hub (as I just did with my IKEA bulbs).