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> "After more than a decade of service .... users can no longer open/close or manage their door lock via the mobile app or web portal." Wow, a whole ten years
by leakycap 1y ago
> "After more than a decade of service .... users can no longer open/close or manage their door lock via the mobile app or web portal."
Wow, a whole ten years for a door lock.
Kind of like wemo's recent abandonment/EOL of their plugs... a big company like belkin can't keep an on/off switch working?
- uptown 1y agoThey just couldn’t refrain from the self-congratulatory bullshit.
- gblargg 1y agoThe cost of keeping the outlets working was more than their calculated user dissatisfaction cost.
- Moto7451 1y agoAs an owner of a few of those smart plugs I can attest they didn’t work properly when supported. You could get them paired in matter but they just fall off the network and never come back until you did a full reset. I’m sure a few people didn’t have trouble but the Wemo support forum and Reddit were justifiably full of anger at the products.
- mikestew 1y agoThe old ones are rock-solid. I use one to control an attic fan, which isn’t easy to get to, but it has never failed in three or four years of use. Another sits outside under the eaves, to control the hummingbird feeder heaters. Again, several years, always works. The new ones, however, are unreliable garbage. I have no idea what they broke, but they were a waste of money. Same symptoms you report.
- userbinator 1y agoMeanwhile, there are countless century-old (or even more) dumb locks in regular use, and they will continue to function even when some apocalyptic event destroys all infrastructure.
- swiftcoder 1y agoAt least with the wemo there is fairly decent 3rd-party support at this point...