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Hi everyone!
Most of you may have seen our latest communication concerning our Nest integration or recent announcements from Google about the end of Works with Nest Program.
What does that mean for your Smart Remote integration with Nest?
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Existing users who have added their Nest thermostat to their Smart Remote before August 31st will be able to continue using it by keeping their Nest account. However Smart Remote won't have access to new features that will be available with the Google Account.
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All new users of Smart Remote starting August 31st will not be able to add new Nest thermostats to their Smart Remote (Nest will not accept new connections).
How to continue controlling Nest with Smart Remote?
- Existing users: to continue using Smart Remote to control your Nest thermostat and enjoy Smart Remote’s unified experience, we recommend that you do not migrate to a Google account. Important note: Nest will not accept new connections even though you keep your Nest account. In other words, erasing your App, doing a factory reset or deleting your Nest from the Smart Remote App will prevent you from adding it again.
- New users: you can use our IFTTT Webhooks integration to create buttons on your Smart Remote to control your Nest thermostat via IFTTT. Here is how to set up Webhooks.
Google has communicated that they will create a new partner program to allow third party devices to connect with Nest thermostats in the future but they have not communicated yet on when this will happen. We’ll make sure to share with our users any updates we receive from Google on this.
More information about the changes to Nest can be found on Google’s FAQ page.
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Hi Dean Little , Murray mcwilliam and Vineet Nangia ,
Thank you for sharing your feedback.
We understand it's frustrating to you to not be able to control your Nest with Smart Remote at the moment, but be sure our team works hard to release this integration as soon as possible. We are currently testing this integration internally, and we hope to launch it soon.
We really look forward to delivering this integration to you and hearing your feedback.
Thank you for your patience, and please, stay tuned. -
William Thompson Jeremy Ginsberg We do indeed understand your point of view, we just want you to know that Nest is one of the features of our Smart Remote that has been undergoing testing for a very long time (same for Apple and FireTV) thus if we did advertise it prematurely it is because we had hoped to have released the integration at an earlier date, however being a tech company like we are, I'm sure you can understand that we are subject to certain unforseen delays due to circumstances beyond our control. We do apologize if anyone has felt misled in anyway by the delay in releasing this feature however I would just like you to know that Nest integration is now live and is fully compatible with our Smart Remote.
We thank you all for your continued patience and support.
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Hi
The nest thermostat is working on my remote now but it takes a long time (about 15s) to apply changes to temperature to the thermostat.
additionally, there is quite a lag on the remote to show new temperature if i adjust the setting on the nest.
will this improve or is there anything i can do to reduce the lag?
thanks
dave