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Philips introduces budget-friendly Hue bulbs as part of major lineup overhaul (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

Those are still ridiculously expensive. The Home Depot lights I have all cost like $5-7 a piece. Unfortunately the Hubspace app SUCKS and hasn't been updated in the two years since I installed it. I'd toyed with the idea of upgrading to Hue, but it's just not worth the investment.

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

    A while ago, I accidentally bought a set of - IIRC - WiZ bulbs. To control them required both an app and an account. I think they had to be on WiFi, too, but I might be misremembering.

    Anyway, that setup was awful. Eventually I setup a HomeAssistant server and, as soon as it booted it up for the first time, it detected and connected to the lights with no account, app or even manual configuration required (except I had to confirm, once per bulb, that I did want to connect to them). It was lovely.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You got me wondering and apparently Home Assistant could work with the home depot bulbs. I'll have to do a deep dive but honestly the Hue integrations with games and monitors is really what I was most interested in. That said anything that can do a bit more than individually changing the color of a bulb manually would be nice.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I didn't know that was a thing with consumer grade bulbs; it sounds pretty cool.

    HASS does support creating groups, so while I can't say whether it would support the integration you mentioned, but you at least wouldn't have to address individual bulbs.

    Good luck!

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