This is why you should never buy into a proprietary hub/ecosystem. Just buy a sbc + zigbee/thread dongle with home assistant and you're golden. Compatible with way more than any big company ecosystem and won't get bricked.

I can't believe this is legal.. I understand that they might not find it worthwhile to support it anymore after 10 years. But why the need to actively brick them? Should at least go the other way around too, they brick the device. We get to 'brick' the money they got for it.

Ikea Zigbee buttons working with Home Assistant and a Zigbee dongle.

If you don't control it, you don't own it. Any device reliant on an outside service lives on an indeterminate amount borrowed time, decided by the whims of the provider.

Another batch of users will be learning this lesson the hard way.

Logitech have otherwise given me good reason to trust them over the years, I've had a number of peripherals from them die out of warranty and they're always happy to send a free replacement.

However, what they're doing with Harmony (and their other smart brands) is kinda shitty. Harmony especially was a pretty expensive setup to have and I'm getting the feeling its days are numbered.

Given the elite (+ the harmony ecosystem) is still one of the best smart remote controls out there even years later, it's more than a bit annoying for them to have captured basically the whole market and then abandoned it once there was no viable competition.