Well, April 8th has come and gone. The results are less awful than I'd
expected. For example:I can still arm and disarm my system.The portal
and motion detectors still work, and the Nest Guard still talks to them,
so that local disarming of a deck do...
@sjlee, Nest Detects still DO work. Even my very first generation Nest
Guard and my Key Fob still work. Basically, what Nest did with its April
8 "kill switch" was amputate THE best user installable security system
available from Wi-Fi communication ...
Mackie77, I see that you were VERY proactive, given that you made this
post last December. I did something akin to what you did (temporarily
disconnecting my home Wi-Fi network from the Internet) and discovered
that at least for 10-15 minutes, I coul...
Actually, what Google did is in some ways LESS than what they
threatened. My Nest Detects all still communicate with my Nest Guard CPU
over a local wireless protocol (which I assume is proprietary), so I can
still arm and disarm my house, but I canno...
I agree–partially. Actually, I'm a bit surprised at what happened once
Google broadcast its digital "poisoned pill' message on April 8. Some
time in the afternoon, all my Nest Detects informed me in the Nest App
that they were offline, my Nest Guard ...
