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This is a huge reason why I try to only use gear that is local-first and that I can flash with my own firmware. In a worst case situation I am smart enough I can make a patch to the firmware and update it with my own build. Also, don't bother with the "fluffy" corp. speak. Just say "We decided that supporting this is costing us more money than what we make".

I wish companies that did this crap would just release documentation on how to flash a firmware and the keys they use (they don't even need to give you firmware source, someone else can build new firmware's in OSS).

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>After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to end technical support for older Wemo products, effective January 31, 2026. After this date, several Wemo products will no longer be controllable through the Wemo app. Any features that rely on cloud connectivity, including remote access and voice assistant integrations, will no longer work.

This is a huge reason why I try to only use gear that is local-first and that I can flash with my own firmware. In a worst case situation I am smart enough I can make a patch to the firmware and update it with my own build. Also, don't bother with the "fluffy" corp. speak. Just say "We decided that supporting this is costing us more money than what we make". I wish companies that did this crap would just release documentation on how to flash a firmware and the keys they use (they don't even need to give you firmware source, someone else can build new firmware's in OSS). Archive: https://archive.today/PE0Rj From the post: >>After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to end technical support for older Wemo products, effective January 31, 2026. After this date, several Wemo products will no longer be controllable through the Wemo app. Any features that rely on cloud connectivity, including remote access and voice assistant integrations, will no longer work.

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The newer stuff that can connect to homekit should just be matter over thread, so some of it will be useful.

My X10 system with the code I wrote 10 years ago still works fine, and was working fine 20 years before that with the generic rat shack clock controller.

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Yeah, I think we talked about it at one point. I did have some x10 stuff but I had reliability issues with it. I was using it with Mr. House. I wonder if that project is still around. If I remember it was mostly in perl which I have never really been a fan of.

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I use the Heyu system to talk to a CM11A serial-to-powerline device. The rest of it is a big bunch of BASH scripts that calls things like sunwait through an if-then sieve.

I found out early on that you don't send the command once. When the scripts (DoX10) call for a change, they send it 5 times, once every 5 seconds. There's very few times I've found that it didn't work, and those were either related to the CM11A deciding it wasn't a powerline device (it gets pulled and re-plugged every six months now) or I had something new on the powergrid that was noisy. Certain LED bulbs are really bad about this, as were all CF bulbs.