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With Google's track record of jumping into a market and after they have millions of users shutting it down, I'm surprised they didn't do this years ago.
How long before Honeywell does the same? The company spun off their residential services division (including thermostats) about 7 years ago and at first things were fine, but in the last couple of years the service has become increasingly unreliable. Their servers have gone down quite a few times and settings changes are sometimes delayed even when the servers are up.
Their Z-Wave thermostat is a nice upgrade without concerns about someone sitting in a corporate America e-suite deciding to pull the plug.
I bought mine before Google bought Nest, but I sure didn't buy anything more from them after that.
Glad I chose not to link my info to it to continue using the feature when Google took over.
Was hoping something like Homebridge could be used to still control these, but so far no luck. After the cutoff they can be used manually like a traditional thermostat, which is a surprise coming from Google. I still fear they are going to generate a bunch of ewaste from people replacing them.
If there was ever a better reason to set up Home Assistant if you want a smart home.....
My father got and installed two of the newer nest thermostats, and they are bar none two of the most annoying tech devices I've ever had the misfortune of having to fix. Have literally spent hours debugging them when changing the wifi password, they don't support wpa3, and the setup app feels like a half assed student project. I know this audience probably isn't interested in getting one, but if one of your family members gets some for free, do NOT let them install them.
Maybe time for home assistant to roll out their own thermostat made with esphome
Good.