I also run alot of flows based on the home/away status of Nest. okay, it is out of the hands of Homey but it can’t be that we have to ditch all our Nest equipment (thermostat, smoke detectors)
I just received an email from Athom that the Homey Nest app will be removed, just like that no other feasible alternative than, buy a different one!
at homey moderators: if you decide to close this topic, fine, but please provide a place for people to discuss this issue.
I think a discussion is good. Ofcourse there is nothing Athom can do about this situation.
I for one will not buy any new Nest stuff. I really like my Nest Thermostat and Nest protect though, so I’m not going to swap it for now.
Is there any integration possible with Google Assistant to still get status updates? Or set a temperature? Since the latest Homey firmware supports Google Assistant… (I am not familiar with GA at all)
Still worth commenting! A lot of Homey users have Nest smoke detectors, including me! A totalt waste of investment now! So, Nest sold their soul to Google? Well, Google is getting scary, to much power over the consumer! Homey should ban Google assistant! NEST is gone, finished, never more!
It should be possible to use via IFTTT, still very annoying!
There will be no 3rd party control. So maybe there will be a only “read state” but then they will need to create a new API that works with google Home/Assistant. I hope I’m wrong but probably they will not put any effort in this type of request. They want google home/assistant to be the center of routines and actions not Homey.
Actually, nest was already bought by Google a few years(?) back.
It was kinda bound to happen, though this soon (they did promise nothing would change) is kinda weird.
Myself also have a nest thermostat and love(d) it to bits as it pretty much always worked.
It will still keep working of course, just 3rd party apps/devices will not be able to read or write to it, that includes homey, and any other automation thing, even IFTTT will stop working as they make use of the same api’s
Logitech tried to do the same with their harmony hub, but had so much backlash that they partially changed their minds.
Not so sure Google will do the same though.
I do appreciate athom actually taking the time to let their users know immediately when it became announced, and offer an option, it is of course only 1 option of which there are many.
Not much for an option here down under as the only approved smart smoke detector by the government is Nest.
Fibaro smoke detector does not even exists down under.
This is HORRIBLE news… makes we want to boycott Google devices but that would be very expensive at this stage… so Hey, Google -Thanks a Yahoo!
I think the Athom email is kinda funny… they said
We view this action as a breach of trust on their end and an unfair move impacting consumers’ freedom.
Which I agree with!
Interestingly, @Athom, this is how you make us feel with missed promises of integrations and features.
I guess @Athom, that tells what Google thinks of your complaint
This is really bad news. The only way to let homey communicate to my nest thermostat would be to let them literally speak with eight other. So homey can talk to your Google home and say something like; OK Google, set nest to eco.
But personally, I think I will sell all my Google products and buy something else.
Problem is there is no real alternative for the nest protect. There are other smart thermostats, there are other video doorbells. But there is no smoke and co device with pathway.
The game is on who is going the master of your house. And it is very bad news that Google takes the position that they want to connect to other Party’s as long as they are the master / ruling device. Because in the end that means that vendors will also lock there devices to platforms pushing a device like homey out of the market.
Yep it will be a power game who will control your house in the future. And we all know what Google does with their competitors. They are not aware of the +2K homey users that have a problem at this moment. They will not change their behavior in the near future concerning their global domination/domotica plans.
