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Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats (www.techspot.com)

submitted 3 days ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google announced the end of support for early Nest Thermostats in a support document earlier this year that largely flew under the radar. As of October 25, first and second generation units released in 2011 and 2012, respectively, will be unpaired and removed from the Google Nest or Google Home app.

Users will no longer be able to control their thermostats remotely via their smartphone, receive notifications, or change settings from a mobile device. End-of-support also disables third-party assistants and other cloud-based features including multi-device Eco mode and Nest Protect connectivity.

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[–] NeverNudeNo13@lemmings.world 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely fucking correct... You can maintain locks on my so-called smart devices for as long as you maintain your services... You want to pull the plug, you should be forced to open source and expose the tech so that we can keep it working on our own private servers. Proprietary tech is a bullshit excuse as well... The vast majority of these devices are about 10% of in house code riding on 90% of open standards, protocols, and packages. None of them are building the wheel from scratch.

For fucksake most of these devices could easily be implemented on decentralized architecture, if it wasn't for all the pesky data mining they are doing

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Except in the UK you can't as they don't sell them. They also ended UK support for their smoke detectors as well.

I switched to opentherm hardware and its now on my HA properly rather than via the cloud.

I did get a good ten years out the Nest hardware, I consider that reasonable for what it cost. Sure old fashioned controllers last longer, but i want the smart features