[z3ugma]

Ugh, I'm so incensed. This is the 2nd IOT product in my home getting bricked within 2 months.

This is one of the reasons I am working on an enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest thermostat over at https://sett.homes/ . It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring, display, and mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking" part with an open-source PCB that can interact with Home Assistant. Nest has been pretty-badly supported in Home Assistant for over a year anyway, missing important connected features.

I bet the same approach would work for the Kevo lock that I've got too...

[Mistletoe]

Thank you for this. Our 2nd gen Nest is our pride and joy and Google has done nothing but trash it continually.

[z3ugma]

It's still the prettiest thermostat out there in my opinion, one of the reasons I wanted to save mine

[Barbing]

Thank you for keeping good stuff out of landfills!

[btreecat]

Honestly I found the "smart" parts of my nest to be pointless once I connected it to HA.

I have automations, sensors, and weather in HA.

I'm looking at moving to a zwave thermostat now. I wouldn't have gotten the nest but it was a (re)gift and I didn't want it to go to waste.

Now Google made it waste.

[z3ugma]

Yeah, same feeling. The "learning" portion ended up being a bust. My HA automations are a lot simpler, so a beautiful dial on the wall, that I can control locally and automate, is what I'm after. All the Zwave thermostats have been so ugly as far as what I have found

[btreecat]

Why does a control box need to be beautiful?

It's a thermostat. It's allowed to look like a thermostat. Functional and solid.