{"id":15763,"date":"2015-12-14T21:17:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T03:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15763"},"modified":"2015-12-14T21:17:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T03:17:25","slug":"philips-hue-excludes-3rd-party-bulbs-with-firmware-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15763","title":{"rendered":"Philips Hue Excludes 3rd Party Bulbs With Firmware Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Philips just released firmware for the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1QjJkiZ\">Philips Hue bridge<\/a> that may permanently sever access to any \u201cnon-approved\u201d ZigBee bulbs.\u00a0We previously\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/zatznotfunny.com\/2015-01\/philips-hue-and-zigbee\/\">covered third party support in January 2015<\/a>,\u00a0when\u00a0Philips indicated it was\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0blocked \u2013 and have since benefited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/zatznotfunny.com\/2015-12\/philips-hue-excludes-3rd-party-bulbs\/\">Philips Hue Excludes 3rd Party Bulbs With Firmware Update<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s better never to upgrade firmware.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t fix what isn&#8217;t broke.\u00a0 As a general rule firmware should never need upgrading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philips just released firmware for the Philips Hue bridge that may permanently sever access to any \u201cnon-approved\u201d ZigBee bulbs.\u00a0We previously\u00a0covered third party support in January 2015,\u00a0when\u00a0Philips indicated it was\u00a0not\u00a0blocked \u2013 and have since benefited. Source: Philips Hue Excludes 3rd Party &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15763\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[976,945,47,342],"class_list":["post-15763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-methods","tag-drm","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-software-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15764,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15763\/revisions\/15764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}