Last I looked, there was essentially no good programmatic route into local Nest control, unlike most home automation devices which use wifi/bluetooth/zwave/zig

Last I looked, there was essentially no good programmatic route into local Nest control, unlike most home automation devices which use wifi/bluetooth/zwave/zigbee. I replaced my Nests with a couple of $25 Centralite Zigbee thermostats and drive it via HomeAssistant running on a Raspberry Pi, and I'm significantly happier with it than I ever was with the Nest.