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I'm slowly moving control to a Hubitat (https://hubitat.com/). But still use the Hue hub for the noisy (frequent messages) Hue bulbs. Anyone have any alternatives?

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I use Home Assistant. It's open source and there is a huge community around it.

You still need the Hue hub for that though right?

You will need a Zigbee Hub for sure, but it doesn't need to be Philips Hue hub. Folks have used ConBee II or Sonoff Zigbee USB dongle to replace Hue hub.

I have used Sonoff Zigbeen to replace Ikea hub, bot haven't got around to replacing Hue hub just yet. It's on my list :-)

Thanks, I run HomeBridge on a Pi so I might try this if Hue go through with their plan.

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