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Thoughts on Philips Hue Lights (midwest.social)
submitted 1 day ago by dumples@midwest.social to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I am a dabbler in home automation and thinking about starting to get into lighting. I have heard mostly good things about the Philip Hue line and wanted to see what peoples thoughts are about it.

Our main current automation are a large number of Google Smart Speaker and Arlo video doorbells. Everything is working now on the Google ecosystem which I think Philip Hue will connect with. Our house is 100 years old which means that our possibilities to automate are lower than a new home since we have very few overhead lights, power outlets are at a premium (we have lots of power strips running through the house).

We are thinking about doing smart bulbs in some lamps which we can leave on and a chandalier. I think the biggest issue will leaving things always powered on.

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[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got into Hue way back in 2014, before I knew what HA was, and before I cared about local control. Hue is OK, and they have a wide variety of form factors to choose from, but I'm always afraid they'll enshitify to the point you can't pair the bulbs with a non hue zigbee controller. I'm pretty sure I can't update the bulbs unless they're connected to a hue bridge.

Using smart bulbs to mitigate the lack of in-wall plugs/switches is a great idea. I do that with my bedroom fan since the light chain is busted.

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If you use Zigbee2MQTT in Home Assistant, you actually can update the firmware on Hue devices, obviously it's up to you if you actually want to push the update though

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I use ZHA.