Problems at Nest?

[Oakey]

So Internet of st just tweeted this:



which may be of concern to Nest owners given this:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/226020-nest-t...

Just a thought.

[Oakey]

I really like the look of the Honeywell system, You can control each radiator individually as I understand it? It's a bit pricey at about £600 but the level of control seems like it'd make it worth it

[Oakey]

Jonesy23 said:

So Nest got to the buyout stage. Which may be why the wheels are coming off now as they try to turn a unicorn into an actual business. Google paid some really mad money for a company without much IP, a relatively small market and an easily duplicated product line. Can you imagine if Nest had pitched on Dragons Den?

Not too impressed by most of these products at the moment, they're expensive for what you get and to work they have dependencies they dont really need which then leads to the Resolv situation.

It's pretty much par the course isn't it? If you've got a Smart TV that's a few years old, a Samsung for example, look how often you get notifications telling you one app or another is being pulled. The latest is Skype for TV which is being pulled by Microsoft meaning if you bought a camera for your TV (which is usually the cams only purpose) you're fked.

[Oakey]

page3 said:

Not true as control works just fine with no internet.

Because it's on a local connection, that goes without saying. What happens if Nest goes pop, can you still control your system away from home? Can you connect directly or do you need their servers to do the routing?

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Marvtec said:

People are really missing the point.

Nest knows when you're at home and when you're out and turns the heating on and off accordingly. It also knows how long the house takes to warm up and the external temperature and accommodates for that.

The key aspect for me though is that I work until varying times and so can set the heating via the app so the house is a certain temperature when I get home. Helpful especially in the winter as it's an 19th century house which gets cold while I'm away.

Right, but if Nest went bust, how much of that functionality will remain? The geofencing for example, can you set that manually (as I can with some apps and my Hue bulbs) or does it require their servers?

[Oakey]

So since starting this thread the CEO has resigned and now Google will absorb the Nest developers into Google itself

http://fortune.com/2016/08/30/google-nest-develope...