Nest was towards the bottom of my degoogle list. I guess they are doing it for me. We hardly used the app anyways. I’ll just disconnect it from the network.
The lesson I think is only buy devices with local apis and avoid google services entirely. I have tons of smart devices in my house now but I require local control and they all sit on an isolated VLAN with no internet. The nest is the last remaining device that I haven’t switched over yet. Its 8 years old, I didn’t think about any of those things 8 years ago. Live and learn I guess.
Nest was towards the bottom of my degoogle list. I guess they are doing it for me. We hardly used the app anyways. I’ll just disconnect it from the network.
I remember when my age old Honeywell thermostat went out of support - oh wait no I don’t because it’s a fucking thermostat.
Seriously if you ever needed a reason not to smartify your home, here is a pretty damn good one.
The lesson I think is only buy devices with local apis and avoid google services entirely. I have tons of smart devices in my house now but I require local control and they all sit on an isolated VLAN with no internet. The nest is the last remaining device that I haven’t switched over yet. Its 8 years old, I didn’t think about any of those things 8 years ago. Live and learn I guess.
Smartifying the home is awesome. Just make sure everything runs locally in addition to self hosting Homeassistant - and you’re golden.