Lighting/IOT concerns, open question 

@Kyresti We have Philips Hues installed here, and they’ve been well-behaved. But if you’re buying, things to know:

1. The bulbs use Zigbee to communicate (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee) and an md5 hash for security (github.com/bjohnso5/hue-hackin). They can be controlled by anyone local with some effort.

2. The hub is a bridge from WiFi to Zigbee. You can lock it down on its own wireless router without internet and it’ll continue to work fine.

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Lighting/IOT concerns, open question 

@Kyresti As long as the physical light switches and accessories are all on the same network, the thing works fine. And as long as it’s not sitting on your home router, evil folks can’t do much more than black out the bulbs locally.

So, with all that in place, we Hued our entire living room a few years back, and they work great.

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