Nest thermostat v1 and v2 to lose cloud support w/ no local option

Really shame, I had a Nest in my last house and went to research it and decided against it due to this reason. I really liked it. I went with the smart Ecobee and its kinda just as nice, just gotta learn it.

The worst part is they my thermostats won’t even be able to talk to each other locally. This is absurd. Companies have ended support but never for something this critical and with zero fallback options. Clock is ticking on that v3 as it’s also locked into Google cloud.

The news came out in April but most people found out today via email. Public info says they have no plans to release API, MQTT, Matter, or any third party support. It goes far beyond just ending support. They are killing features that should never require cloud in the first place along with other features where a work-around would be trivial.

Pulled the Nest thermostat off the wall within a week of Google buying them out.....

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I remember having a lot of fun doing smart switches and garage door openers etc in 2017-2020, but once I got my new house I didn't bother.

It was nice but not critical.

I'm down to:

Smart speakers for cooking timers

Smart speakers to turn on/off (mostly off) TV so I don't have to hunt for remote. Kicking kids off it.

Thermostats

Treat it like a hobby is probably the best way to approach it, or you'll have stuff like this happen pretty regularly causing you to lose your mind. There's just too much BS like this going around unless you try to create a totally off cloud system with Habitat or whatever it's called.

A agree 100% but it’s also true that these fears have been shown to be completely overblown unless dealing with some obscure startup.
Only twice in history have major popular items been bricked like this with no local option. That was Revolv(Google) and Iris(Lowe’s). In both cases, customers eventually got full refunds or replacements. As it stands, this Nest thermostat is going to be by far the worst case purposeful and unnecessary device crippling and it isn’t even close. It’s going to be 100x bigger than anything that has happened before.
They did give me a “coupon” for a Nest v4 for $150(vs 279 msrp) but $150 is pretty much retail now and new, sealed v4s go for $70-80 on resale markets. They’re giving me an “offer” to pay double.

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Sooner or later it's going too happen for all of them.

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Everyone, thus far has been able to pass support onto willing organizations or open up APIs. That’s what makes this Google incident so unique. The fear has always been there but this is the first time that millions will actually see it happen. Maybe I’m petty but this needs attention before it gets even worse. You can’t say “this is normal” to something that has never happened before.
The down side is HVAC companies will love Nest now because they know they get more service calls in a few years and it technically won’t be their fault.