new smart-home platform to play with. Google's Nest unit
Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)
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new smart-home platform to play with. Google's Nest unit
http://readwrite.com/2014/06/23/nest-api-developers-program#awesm=~oI8d9twmew0JhV
Developers, you have a new smart-home platform to play with. Google's Nest unit has formally unveiled an API (see our API explainer) that will let independent programmers create new applications for the company's smart thermostats and smoke alarms. Nest's press release is embedded below. The main idea behind the program is to let a variety of other deviceseverything from smartwatches to smart lighting to smart carsconnect with Nest's products to share data and act together more intelligently. They'll do so by way of their apps, which developers can modify to use Nest API functions that, say, read data from one of its smart smoke detectors or change the thermostat temperature.
Nest actually announced the developer program last September; today just marks its formal launch. Here's a list of the functions provided by the Nest API.
http://readwrite.com/2014/06/23/nest-api-developers-program#awesm=~oI8d9twmew0JhV
Developers, you have a new smart-home platform to play with. Google's Nest unit has formally unveiled an API (see our API explainer) that will let independent programmers create new applications for the company's smart thermostats and smoke alarms. Nest's press release is embedded below. The main idea behind the program is to let a variety of other deviceseverything from smartwatches to smart lighting to smart carsconnect with Nest's products to share data and act together more intelligently. They'll do so by way of their apps, which developers can modify to use Nest API functions that, say, read data from one of its smart smoke detectors or change the thermostat temperature.
Nest actually announced the developer program last September; today just marks its formal launch. Here's a list of the functions provided by the Nest API.
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How about a 16 core Propeller Chip as a hub of the connected home?
Sounds better to me
See link Nest Learning Thermostat has its security cracked open by GTVHacker
Google is not making any kind of nest in my home.
The hardware has been around a long time and it is what is needed for a full home automation. The latching relays can control each circuit in parallel with low voltage (24 VDC wiring) for all the usual light switches.
I suspect that only new homes would be really willing to adopt this as you have to pull 24 volt wiring to all the existing light switch boxes and tie off the old 120VAC switches.
Real home automation is going to one day make a lot of electricians very very busy and happy. But it really works best when you have a 20,000 square foot palace that needs a way to monitor all the devices from your master bedroom.
Just taking control of the thermostat is not enough. How about electric windows all around? And electric curtains? A full home sound system? Mood lighting inside and outside on the grounds? A zonal and multilevel security system that tracks when and whom will be home for the next three months?
You got that right. I refuse to allow Google to spy on me any more than I have to.
It's hard to avoid them on the internet, but Google hardware spyware in the home? You've got to be kidding me.
I hope this isn't the beginning of a Google versus MS debate. I really would rather live in an adobe hut and not have any smart home features if the climate and setting were right.
Do we really need more gadgets at all?
Let's see. I generally walk around with four clocks on me ( the wristwatch, the PDA, the notebook computer, and the cell phone). And with the same clutter I have 3 calculators, 3 schedulers, and so on.
Of course I could shift it all over to just one 4G iPad, but then I would have to buy new apps and my monthly service would at least double. Right now, I just use wifi hot spots and all this stuff is already paid for.
4G is just arriving in Taiwan, and already there is some talk of the need for 5G. My Nokia 3G phone never delivered my of its promise. So I am all for wifi and Skype.