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==Incidents==
==Incidents==
===Vont Home app and website disappear (''2024'')===
===Vont Home app and website disappear (''2024'')===
Around the start of 2024, the Vont Home app (used for management) disappeared from both the [[Apple App Store]] and [[Google Play]]. Users that had the app prior to its de-listing reported receiving a "failed to connect to server" error upon attempting to login (and thus [[Discontinuation bricking|unable to use their product]] as intended), and the company website itself being down.<ref>{{Cite web |author=ralph_gordon |title=Vont stopped working? |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1accea2/vont_stopped_working/ |website=[[Reddit]] |date=27 Jan 2024 |access-date=5 Nov 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251105223254/https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1accea2/vont_stopped_working/ |archive-date=5 Nov 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=cs7717 |title=Google Kills Nest Thermostats FULU jackpot exists to bring them back |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsI6P2lxcHM |website=[[YouTube]] |date=4 Nov 2025 |access-date=5 Nov 2025 |url-status=live |quote=Vont bricked my automated plugs. The server never works except to acccept<sup>[''{{Wplink|sic}}'']</sup> payments for purchases. Without their server working, my electrical plugs will not work on Wi-Fi or Bluetooth or anything. They are just bricks. I bought them to help me around the house because I am in a wheelchair. You cannot even get their app anymore.}}<!-- Comment unable to be externally archived. -Sojourna --></ref>
Around the start of 2024, the Vont Home app (used for management) disappeared from both the [[Apple App Store]] and [[Google Play]]. Users that had the app prior to its de-listing reported receiving a "failed to connect to server" error upon attempting to login (and thus [[Discontinuation bricking|unable to use their product]] as intended), and the company website itself being down.<ref>{{Cite web |author=ralph_gordon |title=Vont stopped working? |url=https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1accea2/vont_stopped_working/ |website=[[Reddit]] |date=27 Jan 2024 |access-date=5 Nov 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251105223254/https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1accea2/vont_stopped_working/ |archive-date=5 Nov 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=cs7717 |title=Google Kills Nest Thermostats FULU jackpot exists to bring them back |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsI6P2lxcHM |website=[[YouTube]] |date=4 Nov 2025 |access-date=5 Nov 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://megalodon.jp/2026-0319-1027-54/https://www.youtube.com:443/watch?v=LsI6P2lxcHM |archive-date=19 Mar 2026 |quote=Vont bricked my automated plugs. The server never works except to acccept<sup>[''{{Wplink|sic}}'']</sup> payments for purchases. Without their server working, my electrical plugs will not work on Wi-Fi or Bluetooth or anything. They are just bricks. I bought them to help me around the house because I am in a wheelchair. You cannot even get their app anymore.}}</ref>


==Products==
==Products==