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Re:Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account by cassianoleal on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:16AM (#37595162)
Shelly [0] seems trustworthy enough. In any case, if they ever go full-on enshittified, as long as you don't update the firmware you should be able to keep using your stuff.

Anything you can flash Tasmota [1] on should be good to go as well. I believe that includes all or most Shelly devices as well.

IKEA so far seems like a decent bet as well.

[0] https://shellystore.co.uk/ [1] https://tasmota.github.io/docs/

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Re:Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account by ender341341 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:55PM (#37602297)
my ikea stuff is pretty reliable, they seem conservative on adding features, but if you don't care about those specific features (which you probably don't) they've been pretty great, if not always the nicest design for the buttons/controllers.
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