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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 ...