WTF?! Die Apple Home App übernimmt KEINERLEI Einstellungen der Philips Hue Bridge? Alle Leuchten und jegliches Zubehör müssen manuell in der Home-App neu sortiert und gruppiert werden? ECHT JETZT?!? Glaube der Wechsel zu den Home Pod minis war eine meiner bescheuertsten Ideen. #AppleFail #AppleHome #HomePodmini #Siri #PhilipsHue #Hue #Apple

I love that the Dutch singer Typhoon is using photos to write his songs!!!! Makes so much sense!!! #music #musicwriting #writing #dutchsinger #dutchartist #dutchmusic #muziek #Typhoon #nederland #interview #philipshue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU3D-uumIF8

In the previous post of this focus, we replaced #PhilipsHue automation with the one from @homeassistant. One significant gap we noticed was that Home Assistant doesn’t automatically adjust the brightness according to the time of the day. We are going to address this gap.

The first step when wanting to add a feature to Home Assistant is to browse through available integrations. While there was no out-of-the-box integration, I discovered an alternative: #HACS.

https://blog.frankel.ch/home-assistant/4/

Anyone know if there’s a way to remove Matter support from a #HomeKit and #PhilipsHue setup?

Apparently Matter’s current implementation is the reason Siri no longer understands Hue scenes; I guess Matter doesn’t support something about them yet. But that kinda defeats the entire point of having Hue lights and scenes, right?

Is there a way to somehow remove Matter from lights and the hub in a home? #Apple

Bulbs from #PhilipsHue are definitely the worst when it comes down to pairing.

Wanted to re-pair an old Hue bulb because I never brought in into #HomeAssistant and forgot about it.

Official instructions? 5 times on and off for 5 seconds each. When it worked the bulb blinks.

This is successful pretty often, but not every time. I sat there for 5 Minutes and turned this thing on 5 seconds, off 5 seconds, on 5 seconds, off 5 seconds, on 5 seconds, off 5 seconds… Nothing. It's so annoying.

But there's a second way: "Buy more hardware from Philips. The dimmer switch can bring a bulb into pairing mode too! Maybe… But please buy it!"

I'm about to drive to IKEA to buy a Tradfri bulb and live with the slight difference in color.

I’ve been the happy owner of several #PhilipsHue-connected lights for a few years. Some of them are coloured, some of them regular. In addition, I bought a sensor to go along with the light I installed in my toilets: it turns on automatically when it detects a movement there.

In this post, I want to document how I replaced the proprietary automation with @homeassistant’s.

https://blog.frankel.ch/home-assistant/3/

Is it possible to connect a (new) Philips Hue Bluetooth-enabled light to Home Assistant **using Bluetooth**?

I've looked everywhere but it's all about Zigbee or using a Hue Bridge. I have neither, only a working Bluetooth connection to the light. I'm ... confused ... why nobody seems to use the Bluetooth connection with Home Assistant and Hue devices?

[walking out the door]

"Alexa, turn off all lights & the Xbox."

[lights turn off in the kitchen, living room, kid's room, master, office, all bathrooms, closets, hallways... and the TV, sound system & Xbox all power down]

I don't care what anyone says about my config. I love not checking every room & finding 3 different remote controls.

Yesterday, @AugieDeer introduced himself to our new neighbors across the street. He said they seemed cool. Then another neighbor we’d never met came out to join them and said “Oh! I know your house! You have the same #PhilipsHue lighting as us. Your top floor is always blue and purple at night.” (That’s genrally my bedroom.)

Then he said “And you have that cool United Federation of Planets flag!”

Is our neighbor a fellow #Trekkie and #nerd? I feel like I should introduce myself now.

Removed the #hue HDMI Sync Box (and #philipshue hub) today, replacing it with a FancyLED 2.1 setup.

Hue sucks, and the #PhilipsHuePlayHDMISyncBox was flaky on a good day, but the physical lights and setup were much more refined. The FancyLED system feels like the typical AliExpress-ware electronics.

in what kind of world would your lightbulbs threaten to stop working until you hand over your email address

haha this kind of world #PhilipsHue #Philips #Hue

I recently switched from #Lifx to #PhilipsHue for smart lights. Lifx was sold twice since 2019 which doesn't bode well.

What I don't like about #hue is how unintuitive it can be. Example - I have 3 lights in 1 room. Let's say I have a scene to change all 3 lights. Then while it's running, I want to use a scene that changes 1 light. Since scenes are intuitively at the room level, it will turn off all lights. You have to create a zone for just the 1 light to leave the 2 unaffected.

Every time the light flickers, #PhilipsHue sold your #data to a new data broker?

I have Philips Hue hardware. The cloud connectivity has always been optional. I’ve never used it. All it used the internet for was updates.

This is changing soon. An account will be required with a privacy policy requiring information harvesting.

Philips Hue hardware uses Zigbee. Looks like I’m moving all my Hue hardware from the Hue hub to my Hubitat Elevation.

I’ll have to rework some automations in HomeAssistant.

#Philips #Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, #Signify says you’ll still be able to control your #PhilipsHue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The #privacy policy allows them to store the data and share it with partners.
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

My Hue bridge has never been and will never be able to get onto the interwebs, connecting to any cloudy things, and there will be no accounts. Fsck you very much. #philipshue