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Smart isn’t the bad part, it’s closed source firmware that causes these (and other) problems.

• orev 7y ago
  No, it’s the insistence on using the Cloud for things that could easily be done on-premises.
  • true_religion 7y ago
    Funny enough the v1 bridge that is being shutdown, allows for on premises access and cloud services like HomeKit have never worked.
  • drdaeman 7y ago
    But those bridges are exactly that, aren't they? They're locally running servers, doing all things on premises. My only issue with Philips is that I'd love to have an SDK to run my own code on the bridge (which is possible, though, but in unofficial way). I guess if all this third-party stuff in the cloud (which are going to break because of the API shutdown = external connectivity/tunnel shutdown) would be apps, downloadable to the bridge instead, things would be better...