and even if so, all you will see are my dogs in their crates.

And that you’re not home.

We got to lamps that are named Ed and Fred.

“What could possibly happen?”

Great read, thanks! That’s what many people of the „I’ve got nothing to hide“ crowd don’t understand. Now they think it may be relatively irrelevant if this data is collected, but what if we get a new right wing government in the future and you’re - for whatever reason - the target of the oppression? The data doesn’t go away.

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The special features are hard to replicate. Hue sync won’t work for example. That’s why I still use the hue hub in addition to a zigbee stick for non-hue lights and switches. But if they want a login I’d rather drop hue sync and just add the lamps to my zigbee stick.

There is no need to reflash them. Thy’re zigbee, you can just connect them to a different hub or to a zigbee dongle.