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My Hue lights have never been connected to the Internet, so they'll never have to worry about this. I use my own Perl client: https://www.floodgap.com/software/huepl/

I might not buy another base station again, though, if this gets enforced at that level.

> - bulb - unlikely, that would mean everyone buying this for IoT lighting can throw out their whole set

Not throw out, just don’t upgrade the firmware again and not buy new ones that might have the broken firmware.

My guess would be in the app.

Enforcing it at the bridge level would break so many setups, apps, custom integrations that even if they try this, they'll dial it back from the avalanche of outrage.