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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: 0s | 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. amatecha ◴[06 Sep 25 04:07 UTC] No.45146529{3}[source]▶
One way is to look for devices that have unofficial firmware available, so you can just overwrite the included software for something more under your control. For example, check out Tasmota, "an open source firmware for Espressif ESP8266, ESP32, ESP32-S or ESP32-C3 chipset based devices": https://tasmota.github.io/docs/