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Re: Kevo app shutdown

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Post by gblargg »

leakycap wrote: post #2

> "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?

The cost of keeping the outlets working was more than their calculated user dissatisfaction cost.

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Post by gblargg »

baobun wrote: post #3

2 months notice is very short, especially considering some of these will have been deployed for a decade... A year or so would have been expected. Some of these will have their owners on the other side of the world with no way to get back in time. Keep this in mind next time you consider depending on Assa Abloy - bummer to see them lose their ways.

If you don't have the physical key available to you outside your house, you failed to have a backup option for the inevitable failure of the electronics.

Re: Kevo app shutdown

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Post by wilg »

abtinf wrote: post #23

This is where proper Apple Home accessories shine. No need for apps to configure them or to use them.

The only problem is that Apple Home, Siri, and all related frameworks and APIs barely work. (I also have my entire Home on Apple Home. They've done an awful job!)

Re: Kevo app shutdown

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Post by wilg »

ekianjo wrote: post #15

Don't buy connected stuff is a lesson people still need to learn

Not really, they shut it down and basically now it's just not a connected thing. "An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs."

Re: Kevo app shutdown

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Post by esseph »

baobun wrote: post #3

2 months notice is very short, especially considering some of these will have been deployed for a decade... A year or so would have been expected. Some of these will have their owners on the other side of the world with no way to get back in time. Keep this in mind next time you consider depending on Assa Abloy - bummer to see them lose their ways.

Meh, nothing a drill with a decent bit won't fix

Re: Kevo app shutdown

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Post by z3ugma »

Ugh, I'm so incensed. This is the 2nd IOT product in my home getting bricked within 2 months.

This is one of the reasons I am working on an enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest thermostat over at https://sett.homes/ . It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring, display, and mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking" part with an open-source PCB that can interact with Home Assistant. Nest has been pretty-badly supported in Home Assistant for over a year anyway, missing important connected features.

I bet the same approach would work for the Kevo lock that I've got too...

Re: Kevo app shutdown

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Post by rkomorn »

wilg wrote: post #25
ekianjo wrote: post #15

Don't buy connected stuff is a lesson people still need to learn

Not really, they shut it down and basically now it's just not a connected thing. "An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs."

Aw man, I'm gonna be that guy who goes kind of off topic, but videos of runaway escalators definitely dispelled the "it can only become stairs" failure mode of escalators for me. Terrifying stuff.

Mitch Hedberg just died too soon after YouTube launched to see it himself.

Re: Kevo app shutdown

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Post by ashayh »

Buy locally configurable stuff only.

That means Zigbee and Zwave and use them with Home Assistant. There are many locks and devices which support either. There's a learning curve in the beginning, but once you set it up correctly not only you get privacy and control your own devices, you also get far more options for automations and useful or plain cool things in general.

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