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 title: "Survey November 2015"
+description: "Results from our survey about usage of various parts of Home Assistant."
 date: 2015-11-22 15:51:18 +0100
 date_formatted: "November 22, 2015"
 author: Fabian Affolter

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 title: "InfluxDB and Grafana"
 date: 2015-12-07 15:15:13 +0100
+description: "A step by step guide to start recording data from Home Assistant in InfluxDB and visualizing it using Grafan."
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 date_formatted: "December 07, 2015"
 author: Fabian Affolter

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 title: "Activating Tasker tasks from Home Assistant using command line switches"
+description: "Step-by-step guide how to start using Tasker on your Android phone with Home Assistant"
 date: 2015-12-10 10:39:41 +0000
 date_formatted: "December 10, 2015"
 author: Rowan Hine

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+title: "Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights"
+description: "Philips has published a firmware update that blocks pairing of any 3rd party light."
+date: 2015-12-12 10:44:00 -0800
+date_formatted: "December 12, 2015"
+author: Paulus Schoutsen
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+categories: public-service-announcement
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+Philips Hue was one of the first to get smart lights accepted by the mainstream. Their Zigbee-based hub is rock solid, never crashes, great API and worked with other Zigbee light bulbs too. They are a bit expensive but the platform was worth every penny, till now.
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+Yesterday a thread on [/r/homeautomation][reddit-hue] published that Philips Hue now blocks all but their own bulbs and those of "friends of Hue". I have been able to confirm this in the [Philips Hue FAQ][philips-hue-faq]:
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+This means that after you update your Hue bridge to the latest version:
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+ - As of now, you can still use your existing paired 3rd party light bulbs
+ - You cannot pair new 3rd party light bulbs
+ - You're out of luck if for some reason you have to pair existing 3rd party light bulbs again
+ - Resetting your hub will force pairing of all your bulbs again
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+If you own a Philips Hue hub and are using 3rd party light bulbs, make sure you do not upgrade your hub if you want to be able to pair new 3rd party lightbulbs. But do realize that you are sitting on a ticking time bomb.
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+I have read, but have been unable to confirm it, that resetting your hub will force a software upgrade. So beware of that too.
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+I will no longer suggest people to buy into the Philips Hue ecosystem.
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+[reddit-hue]: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/3wet8h/fyi_the_hue_hub_is_now_blocking_third_party/
+[philips-hue-faq]: http://www2.meethue.com/en-us/support/search/?q=Another+brand