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!

  • NightStinks@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You cannot just buy a hub like deCONZ, ConBee, Sonoff etc and it just magically work with homekit. If it isn’t homekit certified it will not work without something like home assistant or homebridge as an intermediary.

    • Spaylia@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Ah yes, it needs to be HomeKit certified. Would there be a generic Zigbee bridge that’s HomeKit certified?

      • Shepo84@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Home assistant works perfect in HomeKit, plus you have the benefit of advanced automations in home assistant