So my Nest app[1] that has 1800+ registered users will stop working in August. :'(
Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
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#22> I’m a Works with Nest developer. Will I be able to access and control Nest devices moving forward?
> No. The Actions on Google Smart Home platform does not provide open API access to Nest devices, so it cannot be used to access and control Nest devices. Instead, managing and controlling Google Home, Nest, and thousands of third-party smart home devices is done through the Google Home app and the Google Assistant.
Wow, just wow. The entire non-Google Nest ecosystem evaporates overnight.
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#23I am turning off my future purchases of Google Nest products.
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#24This makes it seem like you would have to use the "Works with Google Assistant" API's instead? i.e. rather than completely not available, there's a new platform?
Don't know about either API to know if that's the case, but it's what the page implies?
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#25So my Nest app[1] that has 1800+ registered users will stop working in August. :'( [1] https://richev.me/nest
Can you switch it to Works with Google Assistant and get the same data?
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#26Can I return my Nest for a refund? This is so stupid.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Correct: https://nest.com/whats-happening/#im-a-works-with-nest-devel...
Another reminder to never buy a "smart" device. At the end of the day they are pretty dumb.
Once again HomeKit's design proves to be prescient.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16083996/internet-of-shit-...
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another reminder to never buy a "smart" device. At the end of the day they are pretty dumb.
Unless you roll your own. But then we’re in the bad old days of home automation just for tinkerers...
I have lost all hope that it will ever be otherwise. It's quite straightforward to build smart home devices for youself that are reliable and don't depend on the whims of some cloud or firmware vendor, but the minute you try to form a company that sells them you'll be required to generate a continuing revenue stream which means shitting on your customers in one way or the other.
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#29> I’m a Works with Nest developer. Will I be able to access and control Nest devices moving forward? > No. The Actions on Google Smart Home platform does not provide open API access to Nest devices, so it cannot be used to access and control Nest devices. Instead, managing and controlling Google Home, Nest, and thousands of third-party smart home devices is done through the Google Home app and the Google Assistant. W…
Yup, they just did a Twitter.
I lived through the Twitter ecosystem collapse and now I'm a VC I worry about investing in startups that are built on any large ecosystem where there isn't an alignment of clear economic interest.
Google of all people doing this just made it tougher for everyone else to maintain confidence in large vendor platforms.
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#30If a developer has gone to the effort to integrate their solution with Nest, I'd be very surprised if they don't get their solution integrated with Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit too while they're at it. So I assume that when end-users switch over their Nest devices to the Google Assistant platform, their existing Nest integrations will be available on the Google Assistant platform too. Doesn't appear to be as doom and gloom as most other commenters here are predicting.