Hi, i have been using smart lamps from aliexpress for awhile now. But these lamps force me to connect to an android app that phones-home to Beijing. Without the chinese yeelight app, i cannot change the color of the lamps. I find that kind of creepy.
Is there a good smart lamp system that is privacy respecting and hopefully opensource?
One that is locked to my local lan instead of a chinese trojan horse that spy’s on me 24/7.
I’m an arch linux user and i know some basic python scripting.
I won’t be adding anything to the conversation but I have to ask: why does a light bulb require internet/network access?
Right now I’m feeling very old. It feels a bit too much.
How would you turn them on and off if they weren’t smart?