A bit concerned about the future of emulated hue (and others)

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I love using Alexa to control things locally that aren’t supported.

But i an very aware that Amazon or Phillips could fix this “loophole” with a swift software update and break all of my things.

I have added devices through Node-red because i prefer that but i assume emulated_hue works on the same principles.

Is there’s a more permanent local solution i could use that would be less likely for Amazon to block in the future?

I am happy to buy extra hardware, if there was a way to add fake devices to a real hue bridge that would be fine, and I would buy it.

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Don’t buy devices unless they have a well supported public API or can be easily flashed with alternative firmware that does.

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I really wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. The home tinkers, hackers and hobbyists (select a title) are probably such a tiny subset of their customer base that they are really unlikely to expend any engineering resources to “close the loophole”. That said, if someone develops a knock-off product using that same loophole, then all bets are off.

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That’s kind of a problem with Cloud based AI voice control…