Comment by rconti
3 days ago
The original Nest thermostat and app has been abandonware since 2017, as far as I can tell. We got one in 2014, and I can only remember one change. A couple years into my use of it, the iPhone X came out, with the notch and taller screen. The Nest app eventually got updated to fill the whole screen, and that's it.
To be fair, I can't imagine why an app for a thermostat would need regular updates - aside from what's necessary to keep the app functional on modern OS versions.
It's a _terrible_ app, though. You create a weekly schedule by dragging little temperature bubbles onto little spots on a chart, one by one. The only "advanced functionality" is that you can copy one day to another.
Also, you can change the current set temperature. That temperature will be overridden at the next scheduled change.
That's it, that's the app. There's no way to create a custom program for a single day. There's no way to set a hold temp that persists beyond the next schedule change.
Now, because it's a thermostat, and my needs are simple, and I don't even have A/C, it's never bothered me _that_ much. But it's clear it could be so much better, and they just haven't bothered to do _anything_ in a decade.
It basically feels like they shipped a PoC, Google bought them, and disbanded the team, and that was it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nest/comments/1im9gkg/adjusting_the...