Belkin essentially waves goodbye to its Wemo smart home brand
If you are an intelligent house user with Wemo Smart devices in your household, there are bad news: you will need replacements soon.
Belkin, the technology manufacturer behind the Wemo brand, has just announced that it ends the lion of its smart devices on January 31, 2026.
A Belkin support page ticks more than two dozen wemo intelligent devices that will become dark next year, everything, from the Wemo Zigbee bulb and mini smart plug to the Wemo coffee maker and at Wemo Crockpot (the last two products were launched in 2014).
Exceptions near a few WEMO devices that work on Thread, which will always work via Apple’s Homekit platform beyond the stop date. These products are the Wemo Smart Light Switch with 3 -way, the intelligent stage stage controller, the smart grip with wire and the smart video camera. (All previous links will bring you to our criticism of these products.) Belkin announced the news on its website and in emails to its customers; 9TO5GOOGLE was the first to go to move.
Belkin also says that one of his other Homekit compatible devices will always be usable on the Apple Home application, provided they configure them on Homekit before January 31, 2026.
But everything other Wemo devices that depend on the Wemo Cloud server will turn into newspapers, and Alexa and Google Assistant integrations will also be disabled. Belkin also advises to delete the WEMO application after the stop date, because it will no longer receive updates.
Belkin said he could offer “partial” reimbursements for all affected WEMO devices which are still under warranty on January 31, 2026 or after, but you will not be able to request a refund before this date.
In a statement, Belkin said that “sincerely apologizes[s] For drawbacks ”caused by the imminent closure of the service:
“After a meticulous examination, we made the decision difficult to put an end to the technical care of the older WEMO products, as of January 31, 2026. After that date, several Wemo products will no longer be controllable via the WEMO application. All the features based on cloud connectivity, including remote access and integration of voice assistants, will no longer work.
Over the past decade, since Belkin launched Wemo for the first time in 2011, we have committed to providing consumers innovative and simple to use accessories for a transparent intelligent house experience. However, as technology evolves, we need to focus our resources on different parts of the Belkin activity. »»
Belkin’s Wemo brand has been a player in intelligent domestic space for more than a decade, and he is mainly known for its lighting controls: smart bulbs, smart switches and smart traffic jams.
But following its 2018 acquisition by the Foxconn technology giant, Belkin seemed to move away from the smart house market, the Wemo brand published only a handful of products in recent years.
Belkin also raised eyebrows in 2023 when he announced that he was making a “big step back” of the material, the new standard that promises to unite the great ecosystems of smart house.
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