Wow, a whole ten years for a door lock.

Kind of like wemo's recent abandonment/EOL of their plugs... a big company like belkin can't keep an on/off switch working?

Some of these will have their owners on the other side of the world with no way to get back in time.

Keep this in mind next time you consider depending on Assa Abloy - bummer to see them lose their ways.

If anyone thought for one second that any device which requires external "cloud" support would continue work beyond what is convenient/profitable for the provider then I have a wifi-only dishwasher to sell you. No, really - please buy it from me.

When I built my house I went full home automation. At the time I was telling my friends about how important it was not to have cloud dependancy, and how I was doing everything local.

I use KNX as the main backbone and Home Assistant for control.

And everything was local with the one exception of my Kevo door lock. At the time I built, there just wasn’t a perfect local only solution.

I hadn’t planned properly for a way to integrate a wired in solution into the joinary around the door due to the particular circumstances of where it was, so I needed something wireless, and nothing wireless was local only at the time.

What pisses me off is that it’s the one thing I compromised on, and it’s the one thing that bit me.

Now I have very little notice to find a replacement with the same features.

This is one of the reasons I am working on an enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest thermostat over at https://sett.homes/ . It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring, display, and mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking" part with an open-source PCB that can interact with Home Assistant. Nest has been pretty-badly supported in Home Assistant for over a year anyway, missing important connected features.

I bet the same approach would work for the Kevo lock that I've got too...