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Google announces 1st and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in October 2025
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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This is your friendly reminder to use the open source Home Assistant with local-only devices. For example this beautiful Honeywell that uses Z-Wave radio to talk to Home Assistant.
You can now even buy prebuilt Home Assistant hubs straight from HA themselves.
I've been using a Home Assistant Yellow for about 4 years now with mostly ZigBee and Z-Wave lights, switches, thermostats and others and I've yet to have a system problem. It's been invisible.
Wow never heard of this! Super excited to move my shit over
What lights if you don’t mind? I will probably get that honeywell now that Google is throwing my nest in the garbage.
Some 1100lm Hue (white), 1600lm Hue (white), and Philips Ultra Definition (high CRI) dumb bulbs on Leviton Z-Wave dimmers. DO NOT BUY 1600lm (white) Hue. They overheat and eventually stop working. The Philips dumb bulbs have a tiny bit of buzzing with these dimmers but nothing out of the ordinary.
Note that you'd need a Z-Wave radio for that thermostat. You can easily have both a ZigBee and a Z-Wave radios on the same device. You can do this with a Raspberry Pi and a couple of USB dongles, or with Home Assistant Yellow and the ZooZ GPIO Z-Wave add-on module for it. Everything I mentioned is plug and play.
Interesting. I have some hues but having issues with the bridge, might try the dimmer switches.
What Hue do you have and what are the symptoms?
I believe they are the warm white ones not sure exact model rn. When I try to add them to the Hue app they simply dont appear no matter what I do with the bridge. Maybe I can add them direct to HA or something without the bridge?
Have you tried resetting them?
Yes you can add them directly to HA with a ZigBee radio but the fact that you can't connect them to the Hie bridgeeads me to think there might be a problem with the bulbs themselves.