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!
I use a sonoff bridge flashed with Tasmota. I use the system with HomeAssistant which can also do HomeKit.
The best bit of the sonoff bridge is as it’s WiFi you can put it anywhere and not be near your server. My server is in the basement and my hub is plugged into a usb socket in an upstairs cupboard.
Everything I have is zigbee. Bulbs, switches, plugs, door, window sensors, blind rollers. I use to have zigbee trvs on all the rads.
System has never let me down yet.
Seconded. Same setup, solid as a rock, with a few additional wifi bases devices on top of zigbee