Hue Firmware Update

[Krocko]

Today Philips published firmware updates for various lights. Any chance to update the lights with deCONZ?

[ebaauw]

Today Philips published firmware updates for various lights

Which lights? Which versions? I see no mention of this on the release notes, nor in the Hue developer forum.

[snozzlebert]

On the Dutch website: http://www2.meethue.com/nl-nl/ondersteuning/versie-informatie/lamps-luminaires
I've upgraded my LCT015, LTW012, LWB010 yesterday. All to version 1.29.0_r21169
I think

Security improvement: proximity based linking with a Hue dimmer switch is now only possible for 30 minutes after the light is powered on.

also affects the Touchlink function in deCONZ.
Possibly it contains changes for Hue Entertainment? (#167)

[Krocko]

@ebaauw i have read about it in a German forum.

http://forum.smartapfel.de/forum/thread/675-heute-großes-hue-lampenupdate/

[manup]

Currently it is not possible to update Hue lights with deCONZ due the lack of official available firmware files.

The changelog suggests that there are no functional improvements, but the Touchlink restriction for 30 min is quite useful and prevents a evil neighbour from stealing your lights :)

[ebaauw]

Cool, thanks!

Any chance to update the lights with deCONZ?

Yes, please. Really not looking forward at resetting all of my 29 Hue lights, connecting them to the Hue bridge for updating the firmware, resetting them, connecting them back to deCONZ, hoping the groups and scenes will be restored correctly. I'm really tempted to try if the Hue bridge will update the light firmware when it's joined to the deCONZ network (see dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin#266).

I like the security improvement, but it really shows Philips expect the lights to be powered all the time. In other words: they don't plan on supporting state.reachable for traditional wall switches, nor providing sensible power-on defaults. I wonder if the 30min limitation also holds for the reset through the Hue dimmer switch (holding On and Off buttons for 10 seconds)?

Possibly it contains changes for Hue Entertainment?

Would they report that as Reachability improvements of the lights.? I would expect a bridge firmware update and app update for that as well.

[snozzlebert]

Possibly it contains changes for Hue Entertainment?

Would they report that as Reachability improvements of the lights.? I would expect a bridge firmware update and app update for that as well.

I'm pretty sure the firmware is related to Hue Entertainment.
There is a difference in capabilities in the bridge response before and after the firmware update of a bulb.
Before:

{
    "state": {
        "on": true,
        "bri": 254,
        "hue": 8418,
        "sat": 140,
        "effect": "none",
        "xy": [
            0.4573,
            0.41
        ],
        "ct": 366,
        "alert": "none",
        "colormode": "ct",
        "mode": "homeautomation",
        "reachable": true
    },
    "swupdate": {
        "state": "noupdates",
        "lastinstall": null
    },
    "type": "Extended color light",
    "name": "Hue color candle 1",
    "modelid": "LCT012",
    "manufacturername": "Philips",
    "capabilities": {
        "streaming": {
            "renderer": false,
            "proxy": false
        }
    },
    "uniqueid": "00:17:88:01:03:00:0a:0a-0b",
    "swversion": "1.15.2_r19181",
    "swconfigid": "79A02AB9",
    "productid": "Philips-LCT012-1-E14ECLv1"
}

After:

{
    "state": {
        "on": false,
        "bri": 254,
        "hue": 0,
        "sat": 0,
        "effect": "none",
        "xy": [
            0.3804,
            0.3768
        ],
        "ct": 366,
        "alert": "none",
        "colormode": "ct",
        "mode": "homeautomation",
        "reachable": true
    },
    "swupdate": {
        "state": "noupdates",
        "lastinstall": "2017-12-06T20:42:04"
    },
    "type": "Extended color light",
    "name": "Hue color candle 1",
    "modelid": "LCT012",
    "manufacturername": "Philips",
    "capabilities": {
        "streaming": {
            "renderer": true,
            "proxy": true
        }
    },
    "uniqueid": "00:17:88:01:03:00:0a:0a-0b",
    "swversion": "1.29.0_r21169",
    "swconfigid": "EA9279F9",
    "productid": "Philips-LCT012-1-E14ECLv1"
}

streaming.renderer and streaming.proxy are true after updating

[ebaauw]

Yes. What Hue bridge firmware are you on? See also ebaauw/homebridge-hue#217 (comment).

[snozzlebert]

Version is 1.22.0

[ebaauw]

Ah, I see they published it Nov 27.

[mathos77]

Not that I have any issues with my current Hue bulbs, but it would be nice if we would somehow be enabled to update the lights via deCONZ.

If we would know where the firmware files are, would we then be able to update the bulbs ?

[ebaauw]

That depends on whether they’re encrypted.

[qraynaud]

That would indeed be a very cool feature to have. It should be possible to proxy the Philips hue app to see where it checks for updates and downloads them. Right now mine says there is no update available so it's too late for that though (I updated everything using the hue app and am just switching over to deconz).

[timbru31]

If it helps I could do some network sniffing and provide the request and responses from the Hue App / Bridge, I have to update some hue bulbs and can borrow a bridge.

[qraynaud]

@timbru31 yes, now you're saying I feel like it's a lot more sensitive to sniff the bridge 👍

[manup]

Would be interesting to access the files not sure if the url can be sniffed when https is used and it might be within the content body.