Philips Hue Bridge v1 online services will be shut off after April 2020

Post by emmelaich » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 9:04 AM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #32

Imagine you are designing the web server for some hardware like this. You might write it in Go, dockerized and hosted it in Kubernetes in Google Cloud. You might use a hosted mongo db and 3rd party auth service. Now in 30 years time, Google Cloud will probably no longer exist, your database API will have changed beyond recognition, and your auth service has closed down. IPv4 no longer exists and your hardware depends…

Post by harshitaneja » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 9:12 AM UTC

4rt wrote: post #66

my problem with being too critical of this is that hue is very open, very well documented and nothing else is. declaring that you'll never buy another philips product ever again because they shut off hosted services support for a relatively flawed v1 device -- when a v2 device is available for £25 -- is pretty petulant imo. it will still work on your lan. i've got 15 hue bulbs and a hue bridge but i don't use any of…

Post by vosper » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 9:15 AM UTC

spectramax wrote: post #112

vosper wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A Hue Bridge is not like a hammer. Your analogy is cute and appealing, but not actually analogous (the biggest problem with analogies...) > Philips has the resources to keep this up and running. See how your analogy doesn't work? A manufacturer of a hammer doesn't have to continually expend resources to keep your hammer operating, secure, and compatible with other devices. Because it's just a hammer.

That's not right. You've just based your assertion with a faulty assumption that a bulb has to be smart - sure the analogy breaks down. But , the parent is making an analogy about a "dumb" bulb - both hammer and bulb are tools. Hammer is used to hit nails and a bulb is used to illuminate dark spaces. A manufacturer of "dumb" bulbs doesn't have to continually expend resources to keep your bulb operating, secure, and c…

Post by maccard » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 9:32 AM UTC

Youden wrote: post #124

I don't get the reaction here. The online service will be shut down but the bulbs will continue to be locally controllable and Philips is releasing a dedicated app to interact with the v1 bridge. Is it really such a huge deal that you can't access your bulbs over the internet? What's the use-case for this? Are you controlling your lights while you're not home? Do you not have access to the network the bulbs are conne…

Post by cube2222 » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 9:44 AM UTC

harshitaneja wrote: post #123

4rt wrote: post #66

my problem with being too critical of this is that hue is very open, very well documented and nothing else is. declaring that you'll never buy another philips product ever again because they shut off hosted services support for a relatively flawed v1 device -- when a v2 device is available for £25 -- is pretty petulant imo. it will still work on your lan. i've got 15 hue bulbs and a hue bridge but i don't use any of…

I love Xiaomi Yeelight smart bulbs. They allow LAN usage even in the official app. There is API documentation. It has been a great experience developing solutions using it.