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!
If you are using hue through HomeKit, you should be able to pause / block the hue hub from the internet and still use it through HomeKit. This is a work around to hue wanting to access your devices.
Alternatively, Home Assistant is amazing if you ask me. I’m an amateur and found it really easy to uses. The only reason I’ve kept the hue hub is because I already have it set up, otherwise if I was starting from scratch I’d use a Zigbee dongle or home assistant yellow for all my Zigbee devices