You maybe want to look at http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/how-hue-works http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/how-hue-work... to recon

You maybe want to look at http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/how-hue-works http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/how-hue-work... to reconsider your position: They [the lights] are connected to the bridge via an open standards protocol called ZigBee Light Link. If you want an analogy, then it is similar to the case where MS Office would refuse to open ODF documents from another office suites and then after uproar would only support documents from friends of Microsoft.