Wemo Is Ending Support for Devices as New as Two Years Old

If Wemo good plugs and switches have been a staple of your good residence setup, you could be in for a impolite awakening. Belkin is ending assist for a bunch of Wemo units, together with some which can be solely a few years outdated.

Belkin, the corporate behind Wemo, knowledgeable clients by way of e mail as we speak that it is pulling the plug on technical assist for a variety of its Wemo merchandise. Beginning January 31, 2026, a lot of your Wemo units will successfully grow to be a lot dumber, shedding their connection to the cloud and, by extension, to the Wemo app, distant entry, and even your voice assistants like Alexa and Google Residence. The complete record of merchandise is on the finish of the article.

Belkin is citing the evolving tech panorama as the explanation for this transfer. Basically, they’re shifting their focus and sources to different areas of the enterprise. In case your Wemo product remains to be beneath guarantee on or after that January thirty first cutoff date, you is likely to be eligible for a partial refund. Nonetheless, Belkin won’t take refund requests till after the cutoff date.

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There’s some excellent news in case your Wemo gadget was set up with Apple HomeKit earlier than the shutdown date. These units will proceed to hum alongside utilizing HomeKit’s native management, which does not depend on Belkin’s cloud companies or the Wemo app. This additionally goes for Wemo’s newer Thread-based merchandise (mannequin numbers WLS0503, WSC010, WSP100, WDC010), which can maintain functioning by HomeKit with no hitch.

Till the shutdown date, your units ought to proceed to work as they all the time have with the Wemo App and different built-in companies. However as soon as that swap is flipped, something counting on cloud connectivity—like Google Residence, Alexa, or the Wemo app itself for distant management—will stop to perform. The Wemo app will not get any extra updates after the cutoff date.

Belkin will nonetheless provide technical assist and troubleshooting on your Wi-Fi-based Wemo merchandise up till January thirty first. Should you’ve bought Wemo units in your house, your finest wager is to test in the event that they assist HomeKit. In the event that they do, you’ll be able to proceed to make use of them with the Residence app. For these out-of-warranty units that will not work with HomeKit, or in case you merely cannot use HomeKit, you’ve bought some e-waste to recycle.

This can be a big bummer, particularly in case you’ve constructed your good residence round Wemo units. It’s sadly the chance that comes with units that depend on the cloud to perform. When the corporate protecting that cloud up and working decides they’re performed, so are you.

Supply: Belkin