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Google announces 1st and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in October 2025 (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 points 6 days ago

As a Nest owner I agree for a smart thing it's remarkably dumb.

I love the way it looks and the UI is really good, for something you can only turn and push, the thing is very easy to operate. However when it comes to actual functionality, the "smart" thermostat I had in the 90s had more options.

Features I think it should have but simply doesn't:

Differentiate between setting a temporary temperature and something permanent till I tell it otherwise. Or with a preset end time. Now when you manually set a temperature and a scheduled temperature comes up, it overrides the set temperature always.
Multiple profiles and schedules. Including different eco temperatures. I operate my house very different in the different seasons, this makes having a single schedule annoying. Or for example with work from home where I want to switch for that day.
Being able to schedule temperatures on an actual date instead of in the set schedule. When I know I normally don't have the heater on because I'm at work, but due to a holiday or something I'm going to be at home and have friends or family over, I want to make sure the house is set to the correct temperature.
More UI customization options, it's fine I guess, but why aren't there like a dozen themes I can choose from? And why can't I choose what information is and isn't displayed?
Better integration with outside weather services, for example displaying the weather, but also driving the heater based on the weather.
Because I'm a nerd, more control over things like ramping speeds and technical integrations. For example my heater thinks a certain parameter is set by the thermostat, but the Nest thinks it's set by the heater. So it doesn't get set which can lead to weird behavior. I needed to set an override on the heater to set it from there. But I've also seen people put in special gateways to control it.

That said I'm still happy with it, mostly because of how it looks and it works well enough. I have it setup in Home Assistant and that can do a lot of what I mentioned.

Also the whole "smart" thing they advertised with saying it learns your schedule and perfectly automatically manages your home optimally didn't work for shit. At least for me it was just a mess.

The thing is so nice and can do so much. But then in the software they just did the bare basics and called it a day. Probably different teams that worked on the different aspects and the people doing the design, hardware and software on the device did a much better job than the people who did the test of the software.