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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fortunately, as I happily tested yesterday, my modern-ish Hue bulbs work with standard zigbee integrations now.
I'm certain Philips will now release a new line that do not.

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

With Matter integration it would be tricky but I imagine someone on the board of directors is pushing for this.

They may just settle on the fact that 99% of their customers won't do this. However, HA has really worked hard to lower the bar on this - you can buy an HA Green and a ZigBee dongle, then it's done quite quickly and easily.