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Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh: profile picture
Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh:
@Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh:


I can’t wait for Google to tell me that my door can no longer lock or unlock because “it has become increasingly challenging to continue to update these products given the early hardware. So we made the difficult decision that… [they] will no longer receive software updates. You will no longer be able to control them remotely…”

https://web.archive.org/web/20250425171221/https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Blog/Support-changes-to-our-earliest-generation-Nest-Learning-Thermostats/ba-p/713068

Internet-connect smart home products were a mistake. These devices should have always been local, peer-to-peer like Zigbee.

#SmartHome #Google
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Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh: · 1w
The Nest × Yale lock *does* operate over Thread¹ using the Nest Connect—but afaik it doesn’t actually support Matter over Thread. Google likely could and absolutely should update the lock to be a standard Matter-over-Thread device, but then they couldn’t sell you a new one… ¹https://thre...