Damnit, yesterday Google emails about deprecating my Nest thermostats, and today Wemo emails about deprecating my wifi plugs. I am never buying a smart device again.

@benbrown @lproven urgh. I have a couple of old wemo plugs. I should check if they’re affected.

I am long overdue doing something with home assistant. These wemo plugs might be the catalyst.

For others in the uk worried about this sort of forced obsolescence and sufficiently time rich to tinker with this stuff, they could do worse than the likes of https://www.mylocalbytes.com (run by an acquaintance) to source things that don’t need anyone else’s computers to work.

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Privacy respecting smart home tech. Putting your house's data back under your control!

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@interpipes @lproven it’s all Wemo devices I think
@benbrown @lproven weird, no email from wemo to that email account, and no notices in the app 🤔
@benbrown @lproven welp, this does indeed appear to be a thing (31/01/2026), they just haven't bothered telling me about it directly - https://www.belkin.com/uk/support-article/?articleNum=335419
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