Hue bridge - do not update firmware

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We recently added the ability to initiate firmware updates of the Hue Bridge via a Thing action command. See details here. Unfortunately while updating my bridge today it went offline and never came back. i.e. It is “bricked”. We don’t know if this was a special case for me, or if it was caused by triggering the update from OH rather than from the Hue App. But in any case I advise NOT to use the Hue OH Binding to trigger updates until we know more about the causes.

Mine is now bricked as well after attempting a firmware update through the Hue app. So I’m now less concerned about any wrongdoing by the openHAB binding, but I would generally advise against updating the firmware on the Hue Bridge Pro for the time being.

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