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>>linker+(OP)
Most (almost all?) Philips Hue devices are standard Zigbee devices. Chuck out your Philips gateway and replace it with a Raspberry Pi, Home Assistant and a Zigbee stick. Yeah, it's a bit more work, but if you're reading Hacker News you probably already know how to do this anyways, and honestly, Home Assistant is pretty damn good at staying hands-off. (I only update it every few months, it's on a battery backup in my house so it's basically always on, sometimes I forget it's even there.)

>>jchw+4k2
This is what I did from the start, was never going to deal with Wifi bulbs or proprietary hubs, just a zigbee transceiver plugged into my server with homeassistant, mosquitto and zigbee2mqtt and I get all the functionality I could want, I basically always use my watch to control my lights now.