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

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280 points RyanShook | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 21:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.248s | source
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dreamcompiler ◴[05 Sep 25 22:58 UTC] No.45144685[source]▶
"Dumb" home devices work as expected for 25-50 years, and then you replace them.

"Smart" home devices work as expected for about a year and then they fail in new and exciting ways, and then you replace them.

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daviddavis ◴[05 Sep 25 23:33 UTC] No.45144962[source]▶
This is exactly why I’ve started only buying smart devices that work with Home Assistant and don’t rely on cloud services.
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UnlockedSecrets ◴[05 Sep 25 23:38 UTC] No.45144999[source]▶
What are the best ways of finding such devices? Almost all the time when I look into some product it ends up being connected to some random cloud service with its own login.
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1. asdff ◴[05 Sep 25 23:49 UTC] No.45145064[source]▶
It isn't easy, but you just have to do your due diligence and really explore the featuresets available for a given category of product.

A shortcut however is checking out the homelab subreddit. People will post about the gear they are using in their stack.