Still joining the brands and ending works with nest could make a lot of smart homes much dumber and google has a lot of work to do before aug. The works with nest program is an api third party companies used to integrate your nest devices with your smarthome.
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Works with nest ending. Those automations will break soon. Google announced the end of works with nest at google io 2019. Ending the nest program also helps google emphasize a focus on privacy. The new program will allow data sharing between. Google has backtracked from its previous decision to end its works with nest program. Google announced that at the end of august it is.
The controversy arose with the announcement that the popular works with nest program was being axed by the end of august as part of googles newfound focus on consumer privacy and security. Many companies from ifttt to philips hue use works with nest to automate your smarthome. On august 26th all wemo and works with nest integrations will be discontinued meaning you can no longer access or control your nest thermostat through the wemo app or use the nest home and away feature to automatically control wemo devices. 31 to make sure that doesnt happen. Works with nest wwn is the invisible pathway that connects your nest devices to other smart home gadgets without the need for a hub letting you create cool and useful automations in your home. The company had originally announced that the works with nest program would be shutting down on august 31st 2019 and all existing connections will stop working on that date.
Owners of nest smart home products now known as google nest smart home products soon discovered that means big changes for their devices. Works with nest required a whole lot of data to pass to other platforms essentially out of googles control. The good news is you can still use the works with google assistant program to connect your wemo devices and set smart home automated actions with google assistant. That shutdown doesnt happen until august 31 2019 but after that date any company or service that uses the program to access data and work with your nest devices will be. According to a statement by google current integrations with works with nest will continue. The company has revealed that its phasing out its works with nest program in the summer in favor of a works with google assistant framework.