[eitally]

Well, you can't operate the camera without an internet connection. The only thing you can do is unplug it & plug it back in.

It's really irritating to use a Nest thermostat with no connection, either, since you can't set or control your heating/cooling schedule.

[supergeek133]

The camera is one thing... but from their perspective I could understand why they don't want it working locally.

As far as the thermostat, people don't edit their schedules that often really. Plus at least with the v3 you can do it on the thermostat. I don't know about the others, I assume not based on the comments.

Plus for others (Honeywell for instance) you can do it locally as well as remotely.

That being said, scheduling interfaces are SUPER hard to build where people understand them and it does what they want.

[mikestew]

Plus at least with the v3 you can do it on the thermostat. I don't know about the others, I assume not based on the comments.

I don't know if it's always been this way, but my V1 Nest let's me fiddle with the schedule on the thermostat. Kind of a pain with a rotating ring as your input device, but it can be done. (Assuming a firmware update hasn't broken this feature; haven't used the feature in well over a year.)