TL;DR
- Google recently ended its support for early Nest Learning Thermostat models, highly limiting their functionality.
- Last week we learned of a project to extend online support for these models, through alternate firmware.
- Those downloads are now available for anyone interested in trying them.
Nothing lasts forever, and that’s especially true when we’re talking about smart electronics whose “brains” require them to be talking to some distant cloud server. Right now, early adopters of smart thermostats are acutely learning this lesson, with Google mothballing first- and second-gen Nest models last month. When the deadline arrived, we looked at what limited functionality remained for those Nest Learning Thermostat models, with the tease that a third-party project was trying to restore some of the remote app control Google had killed off. And now it’s time for us to get our first taste.
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