In today’s “predictable things that happened before and definitely will happen again”, we have another company in the “smart device” business that has just shuttered their servers, leaving devices completely inert. This time, it’s Gigaset. The servers were shuttered on the 29th of March, and the official announcement (German, Google Translate) states that there’s no easy way out.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/04/03/a-giga-sunset-for-gigaset-iot-devices/