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Logitech used actually be good at this. Look at their squeezebox software and Logitech media server, they were open sourced, released to the public and are still under active development and in widespread use.

how many times does logitech specifically, and these companies in general, have to do this before idiots stop buying this shit?

That's the reason why I never buy a smart device I don't control.

So not further developed, but remotely turning them off because the Logitech board members each want a new yacht? Never again Logitech, your company is poison to me, my family, and my friends now.

15% off a logitech device purchase for the complete removal of a 100$ smart switch. that's a slap to the face "Thank's for being a customer here's a coupon you can only use if you continue being a customer"

Ive hated logitech for a while. Looks like my opinion of them wont be changing any time soon. I get no longer supporting products, but bricking them? And then giving a 15% off coupon for some products that they could later brick as well? Youd have to be a right fucking mug to buy anything logitech after this.

I don't have one, but maybe sue for source code?

I don't get it. Little "drivers" that provide functionality, and then the ability to link button presses to those drivers. And I guess some meta knowledge of ports, standard addresses?

Where is the "requirement" for edge computing? Where is the need for their continuous services?

I thought that most companies doing this at least tacked on extraneous features that then justified their subscription. You're supposed to pretend it's necessary! Did they skip that step?

Remember when the stuff we bought actually used to be owned by us, to be used by us, was able to be repaired by us? Now everything is scamware, licenses, and utter crap with threats of legal retaliation if you open, manipulate, or in any way change the product you “bought” from them.

So basically, Logitech sold these devices, decided nah, we’re done, and has given you garbage, while your ROI will never be captured.

Boycotting Logitech is easy moving forward; Don’t buy their crap.

Vote with your wallet.

This is why it's a great idea to refuse to install everything that's possible, including smart switches, cameras, lights etc. that rely on the good will of some company to keep running.

Honeywell wifi thermostats worked great until they didn't. Now their servers are often slow or down. TCP-Link smart bulbs reset regularly if their Internet access is blocked because TCP-Link desperately needs to keep track of when everyone's lights are on and off. Plex wants us to log into their servers to watch content we're hosting ourselves. Too bad if their servers are down. Security camera companies have been disabling local storage options without warning for years.

Logitech actually planned to introduce a subscription mouse. Hopefully at some point people will get sick of this shit, refuse to put up with it and their sales will tank.

There's a good reason all stuff you buy is zigbee or zwave.

Otherwise this is an inevitably

See it's shit like this that makes me want to set up a trebuchet just out of line of sight of their corporate HQ and return the bricked hardware with prejudice.

Who needs any of this digital feces? Not want, but need? I don't have a single problem that can be solved with technology these days.

That's why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.

Looking forward to Louis Rossmann's inevitable video on this.

And this is why i stick with Z-Wave/Insteon/etc. I have a local hardware controller that doesn’t have to be connected to the internet to work. It can be cloud controlled remotely, but if their service shut down tomorrow, it’d still be fully functional locally or if I exposed the server endpoint myself.

That’s always how this rug pull works. Build a dependency than when it’s. It making you rich, kill everything that has that dependency.

I wonder if these could just be flashed with something that uses MQTT.