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Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats (www.techspot.com)
submitted 4 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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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I got 11 years out of mine. I had been wanting to upgrade it because it did not accept sensors.

Does it suck that it was still functional? Yup.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean they could just unlock the dang things at let some industrious hacker make them useful again. Hell I’d pay like $10 for a firmware that would work with home assistant.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would have paid for that as well. I would pay for that for my truck's infotainment center as well.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Honestly I’d pay as much as $50 to unlock my Microsoft sync to CarPlay on my old explorer.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think car manufacturers that put closed systems in vehicles and then abandon them should be required to either open source the system or push a final update that adds Android auto/apple car play (or whatever they are called)

[–] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

Something that might have been a result due to software laws after "stop killing games" initiative

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I wish I could upvote this 100 times

[–] BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are API calls to the device signed or whatever? At a minimum one could snoop traffic to rev-eng the API, then recreate it on a lan-only segment

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I haven’t snooped on the traffic but at the very least it was encrypted back to google. And I wouldn’t be surprised if it was also signed somehow.  If it was easy, somebody would’ve already cracked it, especially with all the brouhaha about them dropping support.