Brilliant is out of money, lays off all staff, shuts down

Brilliant was a Smart Home company who made light switches you could install, replacing your existing ones.<p>They only offered cloud control and APIs were private — they actively rebuffed any attempt by the community around Home Assistant to better support their product.<p>No Matter, nor ZigBee or Zwave, so with the shut down they are another IOT device you essentially need to rip out and throw away, this is painful since they were approximately $350 USD each.

Not the teaching company at brilliant.org, a smart home lighting company.

I think the condo my mom bought might have these. The previous owner was very gung-ho about all of this, and kept telling us how much we&#x27;re going to love it, do we want the logins, do we want the documentation?<p>We told him we&#x27;re almost certainly ripping it all out, because my mother does not need a smart light switch that costs $300 and will eventually go out of business. She needs a switch she can hit with one hand to turn on the kitchen lights.