I am sad to see that Logitech has fallen into the business model of technological churn.<p>I've found their devices (I've owned a few mice, a keyboard, some speaker setups) to be durable, well designed, and comfortable to use. Their industrial and UX design teams are top notch.<p>Somebody up the marketing side of the chain should do some math and figure out how to not disenfranchise users. Maybe lock down unofficial APIs and require authentication of devices (which legitimate users could do). Or something. There are lots of options that don't involve pissing off satisfied customers.<p>But devolving into 'we want to sell new system X, let's brick some old devices' is a great way to drive people away from a brand entirely.
Google completely bricked their home hub, so on the bright side at least Logitech users can still use the damn thing.<p>This reinforces my belief that unless there's officially supported API/CLI access & the end user can control (should they opt to) the cadence of updates - you don't own the hardware.
That's why I never install any updates on IoT devices. They usually remove features like that and you can never go back. I'd rather have my device 'insecure'.
Shit, I just bought one of these, I wonder if it is too late to return it. I've just about had it with all of these "smart" things that fail to live up to the advertising and get worse with every firmware update.
I was surprised there isn't a mature open source / hardware design, but maybe everyone thought it wasn't worth the effort with local connectivity to their Logitech Harmony. Maybe now is the time.