Does the Nest thermostat product still have an active firmware / hardware / software team?
It feels like various features have been kind of frozen in place for the past few years.
Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
31–40 of 600 posts
Re: Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
#32This is why we need to be pushing for devices that use open protocols at the very least. (Ideally they'd be fully open devices.)
It saddens me to see people buy into IoT and not think about the vendor lock-in or data exfiltration. The thing is, there really aren't any alternatives.
Re: Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
#33This seems to include all of us using them in open-source "hobbyist" environments, like Home Assistant and Node-Red. I'm quite frustrated by this; I'll never buy another Nest product again, and I now regret my purchase of the Nest Thermostat.
All the rest of my IoT stuff is either open-source hardware/software, or at the least local-only with known protocol interfaces. This was the one exception I made for IoT "cloud", giving Google the benefit of the doubt. I regret deeply giving them that benefit now.
Re: Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
#34Hey, at least they are going to roll "Nest" accounts into "Google" accounts so hopefully the app can stop asking me to set up sms based 2fa everytime I try to change the temp. All that employee stock from the acquisition must be finished vesting.
Yeah, I welcome this change. Nest's account management is garbage. It alerts me when a smoke alarm fires, but then it asks me to login, as if I have any idea what the password is.
Re: Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
#35Nest screwed the pooch with me before Google bought them by changing their UI and temporarily bricking my thermostat with unwanted firmware updates. (My Nest still works as a dumb thermostat but I'll never let it talk to the Internet again.)
When Google bought them I knew Nest would only get worse, and here we are.
Re: Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
#36Makes me happy I didn't buy a Google home. What's the guarantee they won't do this for home compatible devices at a later date, to move to another new ecosystem?
Re: Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
#37Man, Google is the new Microsoft of the 90s. Fuck them. I have 3 Nest thermostats (bought prior to the Nest acquisition.)
Re: Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
#38I see Google API/ecosystem fans often defending or dismissing Google’s pattern of behavior here, using arguments like this:
“Well, sure, they shut down that API I don’t use — big deal; all things come to an end eventually! But, they’d NEVER do that to this API I rely on — that would be so horrible, Google just would not do it!”
I hope we all can acknowledge that this argument is on perpetually eroding ground, at the very least.
Re: Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
#39Looking forward to when google turns off their corporate headquarters.
Re: Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
#40This is why we need to be pushing for devices that use open protocols at the very least. (Ideally they'd be fully open devices.) It saddens me to see people buy into IoT and not think about the vendor lock-in or data exfiltration. The thing is, there really aren't any alternatives.
Would be great, but how could we push it to the average Joe?