Hi,

Philips will soon require an account to use their shitty app so I’d like to move away from them. I also have a few IKEA Tradfri stuff.

I look around on this sub and a few others and it seems like these are the best options:

I think a hub is better than a dongle so I don’t have to use Home Assistant and I can keep using HomeKit as before. If I have to, I don’t mind Home Assistant but it was very clunky when I tried it a few years ago, not sure how it evolved.

Although here are my criteria:

  • It must not require an account,
  • I’d love something that works with the Hue Sync Box. Is it realistic? Maybe with hass-emulated-hue? I don’t mind replacing it if there’s something as good,
  • It’d be nice to be able to use HomeKit.

Feel free to share your experiences!

  • Uninterested_Viewer@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Your first two options listed are simply ZigBee coordinators, not “hubs”: you’d need to run ZHA or ZigBee2mqtt on a computer (could be as simple as a Pi) to use them. Home Assistant is usually what people pair this with for automations, but I prefer the combination of ZigBee2mqtt + mosquito (MQTT broker) + nodered.

    • Spaylia@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Your first two options listed are simply ZigBee coordinators, not “hubs”: you’d need to run ZHA or ZigBee2mqtt on a computer

      So a coordinator requires a software to interface it, whereas a hub is standalone (given that it has an app or something)?