The news that works with nest was winding down came via the nest website. August the makers of the august smart lock is part of the works with nest program.
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Works with nest discontinued. The most notable one. Launched 2014 discontinued 2019. If a nest account is disabled it will not be able to be re enabled. According to a statement by google current integrations with works with nest will continue. That was some time back so this recent news was a big shock. This is because nest is merging back into the google brand and company rather than being a separate spin off.
Google has backtracked from its previous decision to end its works with nest program. Integrations enabled before that date will still be functional and accessible. Moving forward ne will wind down the works with nest developer program and focus on delivering a single consumer and developer experience. This is because nest is merging back into the google brand and company rather than being a separate spin off. Unfortunately doing so will permanently sever connections between nest wink and other 3rd party platforms. After this date the ability to enable powerview integration with nest will no longer be available.
On january 13 2014 google announced plans to acquire nest labs for 32 billion in cash and completed the acquisition the next day. In a very surprise move google has today announced ending the works with nest program. The company will discontinue its works with nest program this summer which has the potential to break a number of existing smart home integrations. Google discontinues works with nest. The program will be replaced with the works with google framework. Last year nest announced that the google home and nest teams were joining forces.
The program will be replaced with the works with google framework. In a very surprise move google has today announced ending the works with nest program. Works with nest discontinued. If you decide to migrate to a google account it will remove your works with nest connections and they will no longer work. Google is retiring the works with nest program on august 31 2019. Google is justifying this.
In news back in may google announced a change to their nest ecosystem. You can see the status of your nest. Those connections will not be supported when you use a google account. Some major works with nest brands like august are minimizing the impact. The works with nest program was designed to allow tech to connect to nest. The works with nest program is being discontinued and they are encouraging their users to migrate their nest accounts to google accounts.
When you migrate well give you an opportunity to review your works with nest connections and decide how you wish to proceed.
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