I bought a whole bunch of these smart switches a while back and now they’re all being bricked.
Fucking Internet of Shit™.
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it says they are stopping tech support, not disabling them? i'm confused
Well if I can’t control them with an app or cloud system, what good are they?
Never buy internet of shit products that solely rely on the cloud, that businessmodel doesn’t work. Best approach is to buy shit that supports the Matter standard.
I should look into that at some point.
I think any sane person a decade or two ago would balk at the idea of installing devices with sensors in their house that send data to a cloud. But now it's normalized
It really is. I just wanted an easy way to turn on and off my lights on a schedule or when I’m lying in bed, and now somehow the NSA is involved.
"I subscribed to a whole bunch of these smart switches..."
FTFY
FWIW this should keep working
If you haven't already, check out the Home Assistant forums, this is a current thread they have on it-
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/the-end-of-wemo-cloud-and-app/909663
Esp32 is your friend..
Use ZigBee devices from now on and don’t suffer
Learning new things today.
It’s like Bluetooth but for smart home devices.
If you have Philips Hue devices they support it out of the box and are ridiculously easy to use with Home Assistant. A bunch of others do too
I’d recommend you use the Home Assistant OS and also set up Zigbee2MQTT.
As an alternative to your smart switches, you can use the Hue wall switch modules, which you can wire to any wall-mountable switch/button and link to anything.
I do have a Hue system also but do you have to bypass the hub?
The answer is you throw out the hub, and *pair it as like you would with the hub* by putting it into setup mode
Then you allow devices to join on your coordinator and it just works, no hacky workarounds required
Since I am a nerd I have my Home Assistant pi shoved in a server rack.
The Zigbee coordinator is in another place with another Pi, that has a USB dongle connected and it connects to an MQTT server on the HA pi
I’m about to go on a trip so I’ll do some research and think about it when I get back. Thanks! 🙏