You can use these devices with HomeKit and firewall then off from the internet so they can no longer phone home. I have mine brought into home assistant with the HomeKit controller integration and it’s on a WiFi network with no connection to the outside world. The downside is that it can’t receive a firmware update.

Hue Bulbs are zigbee. They weren’t bricked. You can use them with any zigbee adapter plugged into home assistant, hubitat, etc. I believe you are thinking of the hue hub that began requiring a hue account for “security reasons”

Have you looked at your logs to see if anything looks fishy? Check your main logs but also the logs in your zigbee integration

Also it may be time to submit it as a bug.

Very strange. Are you yaml based or automatic builder based? Can you post your code/screen shots?

My guess is that at some point you had a lux sensor (illuminance) as a condition and that entity has either had its name changed or has been deleted.

Check out the automation (either in the builder or in the yaml) to see if you have this condition. Then see if that entity still exists or if it’s name has changed.

Edit: for clarity

I like this thermostat except for one issue. When i manually change the target temperature with the HA thermostat card, it has a maximum temperature of 40 degrees. With Fahrenheit, this is obviously no good. it has something to do with the MQTT configuration but i cant figure it out. Luckily service calls in automations work fine.

I would go with option one to start out. If the lights connect to HomeKit, then you probably don’t need Matter at the moment. And starting out, working within one vendor simplifies things for beginners. The nice thing about the IKEA stuff is that the devices use the zigbee wireless protocol to talk to the hub. So if you ever decide to go with a more capable automation software (Home Assistant, Hubitat, etc) the bulb and light strip can connect directly via an open zigbee dongle.

The problem with option two:

The Philips Hue bridge pretty much only controls Phillips hue devices (with a few exceptions). It does not control Nanoleaf devices which are WiFi based (if they are the Thread based ones, then you would need a Thread border router like the HomePods. Hue bridge doesn’t have Thread) It looks like the IKEA devices can be controlled by the Hue bridge but at that point, why not just go with the cheaper and probably more reliable option of using the same vendor’s bridge?

Very cool! I’m excited to try this out.

This looks cool. I may try this out this weekend. If accessing from the web on mobile, is downloading episodes available?