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> Now that it’s dropping Dropcam and Nest Secure, the Nest Protect smart smoke alarms are the only Nest App-only devices left Wait, what does this mean? Does t

by rconti 4y ago

> Now that it’s dropping Dropcam and Nest Secure, the Nest Protect smart smoke alarms are the only Nest App-only devices left Wait, what does this mean? Does this mean my Nest thermostat has... another app I can use? I mean, the Nest app is a dumpster fire of deferred features. The only reason I know it's been touched in the past 9 years is because the app was updated to work full-screen on the iPhone X.

rconti 4y ago
To reply to myself, this is some fantastic word soup, but it looks like I can use the Google app? Or the Home app? Possibly they're different things? It'll be fascinating to see if I can do fancy modern high tech thermostat things like... override a schedule. >Once you add your Google Nest thermostat to the Home or Nest app, you can easily control it even when you're not at home. > The Nest Thermostat can only be controlled with the Home app. > You can control the Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Thermostat E with the Home app after you migrate your Nest Account to a Google Account. > The Nest app also offers full control and settings for the Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Thermostat E.
- enjo 4y ago
  It's the Google Home app. Hopefully they'll invest in the interface quite a bit over the coming year but it does a good job of managing all of the devices in my home right now. So this isn't a huge issue. The weird problem of having both the Nest app and Google Home has always been really weird.
  - rconti 4y ago
    It looks like you have to migrate your Nest to the Google Home app in order to control schedules in Google Home. (As it is now, I can change the current temp as a one-off, or do voice control, but I can't change schedules). Unfortunately, it sounds like the scheduling is just as simplistic and featureless as the scheduling in the native Nest app. (Eg, manually set up each day, with basic copy+paste functionality (probably), no overrides, no ability to do anything different from week to week). So, I probably won't risk the migration.
warp 4y ago
Presumably the Google Home app? That's where they moved the Google Wifi stuff too before they stopped updating the dedicated Google Wifi app.

by rconti 4y ago

rconti 4y ago

To reply to myself, this is some fantastic word soup, but it looks like I can use the Google app? Or the Home app? Possibly they're different things? It'll be fascinating to see if I can do fancy modern high tech thermostat things like... override a schedule. >Once you add your Google Nest thermostat to the Home or Nest app, you can easily control it even when you're not at home. > The Nest Thermostat can only be controlled with the Home app. > You can control the Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Thermostat E with the Home app after you migrate your Nest Account to a Google Account. > The Nest app also offers full control and settings for the Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Thermostat E.

enjo 4y ago
It's the Google Home app. Hopefully they'll invest in the interface quite a bit over the coming year but it does a good job of managing all of the devices in my home right now. So this isn't a huge issue. The weird problem of having both the Nest app and Google Home has always been really weird.
- rconti 4y ago
  It looks like you have to migrate your Nest to the Google Home app in order to control schedules in Google Home. (As it is now, I can change the current temp as a one-off, or do voice control, but I can't change schedules). Unfortunately, it sounds like the scheduling is just as simplistic and featureless as the scheduling in the native Nest app. (Eg, manually set up each day, with basic copy+paste functionality (probably), no overrides, no ability to do anything different from week to week). So, I probably won't risk the migration.

warp 4y ago

Presumably the Google Home app? That's where they moved the Google Wifi stuff too before they stopped updating the dedicated Google Wifi app.