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nikshriv / cync_lights

Home Assistant Integration for controlling Cync switches, plugs, and bulbs
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Is the cloud service only required to install the bulbs in HA? #20

Closed Penguin-Guru closed 1 year ago

Penguin-Guru commented 1 year ago

I'm not familiar with how the bulbs communicate. Does this integration control them locally or does it require the cloud service? I would like to deny the bulbs WAN access.

nikshriv commented 1 year ago

Yes, the cloud service is the only way this integration is able to control these devices. There is a Cync integration that connects to the Bluetooth mesh that you could use to control them locally so you can block WAN access. I've never tried it myself, so not sure how well it works.

https://github.com/juanboro/cync2mqtt

Penguin-Guru commented 1 year ago

Thank you. :)