End of support for Nest Thermostat is rip off for consumers, but a blessing for Google stock. You can tell this was all planned as a money making scheme because they planned it for the end of October when heating season starts. Why not do it in the spring?
I have 3 Nest thermostats, and 5 Nest smoke/carbon Dioxide detectors. I got this system because when the Carbon Monoxide detector is triggered, it sends an alert to the thermostat to shut down the furnace. Do you think I can afford to replace all of it?? You better believe when I do, I will not buy Google products any longer because of this money-making plot they are forcing on consumers.
I can understand them not wanting to support the old thermostats by no longer updating the firmware and software, but to disable everything, including the wi-fi/app capabilities should be illegal. My thermostats are all working fine and it's a waste of money and resources to have to throw them in the garbage when they work perfectly fine. If I end up dying because of carbon monoxide poisoning I will come back and haunt their rich butts and will have my survivors sue them. I won't be able to spend the money to replace them until spring.
I bought one for my office at work because it's a large 2800 sq. foot photo studio and I turn down the heat to 60 when I leave work for the day. When I wake up for work I turn the heat on from my phone so it is warm when I get to work. I am self employed and cannot afford this. But I am happy for Google stock people that they are getting richer. Now I will have to leave the heat up overnight so I don't have to spend 2 hours waiting for my office to heat up, which will cost me more money.
