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Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25

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280 points RyanShook | 3 comments | 05 Sep 25 21:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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0cf8612b2e1e ◴[05 Sep 25 22:30 UTC] No.45144431[source]▶
To each their own, but the idea of an internet connected thermostat (at great expense!) never made sense to me. A $20 Honeywell lets you program 4 regions per day (waking, day, evening, night) and will be fine almost every day of the year. Has a battery backup and never failed me.

I guess it would be cute to get some analytics dashboard, but that’s about where my interest ends.

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1. renewiltord ◴[05 Sep 25 22:38 UTC] No.45144513[source]▶
Everyone always says this stuff, but man these things are such garbage to use: terrible user interface, LCD screen with random blinking elements to tell you that's being edited, response rate slower than a ping to Mars. Modern app-connected thermostats are so much better.

I have the same thing and to be honest, if I had to replace a $200 thermostat every 2 years I would gladly do it. In fact, this whole thing has made me go and research which thermostat will fit where I live.

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2. ryandrake ◴[05 Sep 25 22:46 UTC] No.45144567[source]▶
It's starting to look like when you buy any kind of electronics gizmo with a UI, your choices are limited to:

1. A non-smart device that will work forever but looks and feels like it's still in the 90s

2. A device with a nice, responsive UI, but destined for the landfill because it's chained to a cloud service.

Why are these things mutually exclusive? Across so many product categories, there's seemingly few or no options for a nice UI but without dependence on an Internet service that will inevitably shut down.

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3. OJFord ◴[05 Sep 25 23:17 UTC] No.45144856[source]▶
Because people won't pay (or the companies(' research) don't think they'll pay) much for the hardware, so it's a loss leader or barely profitable promotion for the subscription service.

Not that straightforwardly in Nest's particular case to be fair, but a lead in to other products, and Nest was perhaps bought by Google before having to worry too much about profit margins(?).