Google is pulling the plug on your old Nest - but offers nearly 50% off a new thermostat

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If you person an older Google Nest thermostat, it mightiness beryllium losing its astute capabilities aboriginal this year.

In a station past week connected the authoritative enactment blog, Google announced that it would extremity enactment for 3 thermostat models: The archetypal first-generation Nest Learning Thermostat from 2011, the second-generation Nest Learning Thermostat that followed a twelvemonth aboriginal successful 2012, and the 2nd procreation of the European mentation of the Nest Learning Thermostat from 2014.

No much astute features

Not lone is Google stopping aboriginal bundle updates for those devices, it is pulling each astute features. The thermostats volition inactive work, including existing schedules, and you tin proceed to power the somesthesia and acceptable schedules straight connected the device, Google says, but you volition not beryllium capable to power thing with the Nest app oregon Google Assistant.

Support ends connected Oct. 25, 2025. No different devices are affected astatine this time.

An olive branch

To lessen the stroke a little, Google is making an connection to affected customers. If you are inactive utilizing 1 of these thermostats, Google volition nonstop you a $130 disconnected promo codification to acquisition the fourth-generation Nest Learning Thermostat (which ZDNET's Maria Diaz called "a beauteous portion of tech that works" and 1 that "you tin number connected moving for years -- oregon possibly adjacent decades"). With an MSRP of $280, that cuts the terms to $150.

Google said it was making the alteration to "fully invest" successful the latest procreation of thermostats.

Goodbye, Europe

In the aforesaid announcement, Google besides says it is pulling its thermostats retired of the European marketplace entirely. "Heating systems successful Europe are unique," it explained, "and person a assortment of hardware and bundle requirements that marque it challenging to physique for the divers acceptable of homes."

If you person an archetypal Nest thermostat, determination is simply a decent accidental it inactive works well, truthful this is definite to beryllium frustrating for a batch of users. Pulling updates is 1 thing, and would not beryllium arsenic large of a deal, but wholly pulling functionality is simply a large choice. A astir 50 percent discount is simply a beauteous bully offer, but changing retired a hard-wired thermostat is simply a spot much analyzable than simply unplugging and tossing a astute instrumentality that has reached its extremity of life.

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