Belkin ends Wemo support January 31, 2026; its move to brick Wemo devices exposes IoT companies’ lack of accountability when abandoning paid products.
Belkin ends Wemo support January 31, 2026; its move to brick Wemo devices exposes IoT companies’ lack of accountability when abandoning paid products.
Belkin Wemo discontinuation of service
Belkin Wemo smart home devices require cloud connectivity to work. On July 10, 2025, Belkin announced the shutdown of cloud services supporting most Wemo devices, effective January 31, 2026. These devices remain for sale on Belkin's Amazon WeMo store and advertising them as working with Google, Alexa, & more.
This shutdown will disable remote access and automation functionality for 27+ device models sold between August 2015 and November 2023, affecting thousands of customers who purchased these devices as permanent smart home solutions. The incident is one example of a broader trend of IoT device abandonment & software tethering practices that enable manufacturers to remotely disable purchased products.
See: 2020, 2023.
History of discontinuation and not fixing vulnerabilities.
To the users just learning, you have my sympathy. Anyone who knows the history should have known better than to buy again.
Don't buy externally controlled IoT shit. It never ends well. Go for local control and manage as you see fit.