Nest Thermostat

“They kill stuff that we depend on and then just expect you to buy their latest version.”

“My gen 3 had a bug where when selecting heat mode from off mode after previously being in cooling mode, it'd pulse the AC briefly”

“the smart functions are not smart enough and I spend more money than a basic calendar”

“Remote control and sensors are just things Google has convinced you to think you need”

“This thing was released in 2011, and can be replaced in 5 minutes for like $100.”

“If it depends on some services that are being sunset then the cost of getting them working again approximates the cost of getting them working in the first place.”

“those things were bad UX. Those things are really hard to control, and no scheduling, no remote control, no sensors”

“there's a long list of devices that have been bricked when their manufacturers shut down a proprietary backend”

“They've had 10+ years to plan ahead for this eventuality, and it's not rocket science.”

“The termostst should have been dumb the whole time, not an avenue for harvesting our data.”

“If someone says Google can't be trusted for purchases of long-term, capital-style goods like a thermostat”

“the Nest app is already pissing me off too much by trying to get me to give it more data”

“Google neutered their own API as of 2019, then did even more shenanigans after that.”

“Of course, my reaction to that was to throw the thing in the trash”

“they turned our Nest back to shitty thermostats last year by dropping older models from their Google Home service”

“Just being able to send commands to my Nest thermostat (which I own, and is on the same LAN) involved creating a cloud account”

“catch big players like google disabling their thermostats for non-hardware reasons”

“Nest has many notifications to enable eco modes making me uncomfortable in own home.”

“My Nest works great other than the app trying me to get to change my account to Google”

“still works fine after 10 years and it works with old furnaces”

“I just threw my unsupported Nest in the trash, just like Google wanted”

“only to have them remotely disabled so that it was exactly the same as the item they'd replaced”

“there's no reason they couldn't have given us one last firmware update”

“I can fiddle with it from my bed rather than going downstairs”

“Nest is hardly the only thermostat out there using solid-state relays.”

“It was much easier to have it known when we left the house and it would automatically turn down”

“No one took this into account, they were more concerned with making the thermostat pretty.”

“The scheduling options feel designed to troll, serious MacBook wheel vibes.”

“I have a first generation Nest and haven't had a problem”

“has none of the features that justify its existence above a $20 dumb thermostat”

“The UI is just basically a dial that can click. And there's no copy paste.”

“Google disabled cloud services, and therefore the app. The remote control features were a key reason many bought these.”

“seems to be working fine as a normal (offline) thermostat”

“I'm totally annoyed with Google for wrecking my perfectly functional thermostat.”

“They've done the exact same thing as Google Nest by bricking their older hardware.”

“I'm shocked it was this easy to subvert the root of trust on these devices.”

“Early generation Nest hardware was garbage, and was known for blowing FETs that failed closed, turning people's ACs into giant ice cubes.”

“I absolutely would buy the product again.”

“The Nest Gen1/2 UI was pretty slick.”

“Let's buy a second hand Nest Gen1/2 before people know about this!”