The current article also mentions this subject: > It's been less than a year since Philips pushed out a firmware update that gave its light fixtures the abili

The current article also mentions this subject: > It's been less than a year since Philips pushed out a firmware update that gave its light fixtures the ability to detect and reject non-Philips lightbulbs -- and thanks to laws like the DMCA, which have metastasized in the IoT era, it's a potential felony to alter your light fixture to override this behavior and force it to work with non-Philips bulbs.