Comment by p0w3n3d

7 months ago

That's a standard lifecycle for "smart home" appliances as I've been observing for some time now. Tbh building a home that risks requiring full replacement of e.g. sockets every 3 years sounds at least unreasonable

I have ZWave devices that are now 20 years old which work like the day I bought them. Stick with a standard, local solution and you don’t have to deal with these kinds of messes.

  • Only local solutions. Also local solutions may also fadeout, depending on security measures. But people strive for cloud, turn-on-my-washing-machine-from-work solutions which are doomed to last 3-8 years max