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I got burned by Google "sunsetting" custom actions on assistant [1]. I'm not trusting Google to keep this open for 3rd parties. [1] https://developers.google.c

• afavour 2y ago
  Between this and Google removing the ability for you to use any shopping list other than their own Keep app my Google Home has become little more than a jukebox.
• mateus1 2y ago
  I won’t be surprised if they shut down Nest and people find themselves with bricked Carbon Monoxide Sensors…
  • iFire 2y ago
    I wonder if that's a legal liability with bricked Carbon Monoxide sensors.
    • mikeyouse 2y ago
      For whatever other issues people are rightly concerned about - when sensors like this 'brick', it's just the weird superfluous cloud features that are turned off and the core functionality still works fine. Though on the smoke detectors, modern code is that they all need to communicate and alarm at once, so depending on how that's architected on the Nest devices, could prove problematic to lose all of that.
      • packetlost 2y ago
        That sounds like class-action lawsuit levels of bad. That being said, I'm actually not that worried about Nest getting killed.
        • solardev 2y ago
          They already forced a transition through several apps (Google Wifi, Nest, Home) and shut down some product lines (Nest Secure).
      • Marsymars 2y ago
        Alarm interconnect has to be local; I don't think it would code-compliant anywhere otherwise. (Even wireless interconnect has only become code-compliant relatively recently - e.g. in my jurisdiction, code has only allowed wireless interconnect since 2019.)