Nest released the original Learning Thermostat to almost universal praise in 2011, with the sequel arriving a year later. Google’s second-gen Euro unit launched in 2014. Since launch, all these devices have been getting regular software updates and have migrated across multiple app redesigns. However, all good things must come to an end.
As Google points out, these products have had a long life
14 years for a thermostat that still works? What has really changed in that time that the servers can’t support sending commands to them anymore. Seems like this is just part of the switch to Gemini and planned obsolescence to get people to buy new devices with terrible Gemini features that will stop working in 5 years, and result in more e-waste.
What has really changed in that time that the servers can’t support sending commands to them anymore.
The discovery of the higgs boson changed everything we thought we knew about the notion of room temperature. It’s just not the same world those old thermostats were designed to operate in.
14 years for a thermostat that still works? What has really changed in that time that the servers can’t support sending commands to them anymore. Seems like this is just part of the switch to Gemini and planned obsolescence to get people to buy new devices with terrible Gemini features that will stop working in 5 years, and result in more e-waste.
The discovery of the higgs boson changed everything we thought we knew about the notion of room temperature. It’s just not the same world those old thermostats were designed to operate in.
More likely than not they can’t upgrade the crypto to be able to talk to the backend or there’s a CVE they haven’t announced yet.