[Ipg-smz] nest app for Linux?

[Dennisf63]

On 10/11/2019 01:02 PM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:
> They both have the Linux kernel in common, but beyond that, my 
> understanding is that they're pretty much completely different -- but 
> don't take my word for it.

Getting back to the Nest line of geek-dom, the thermostat is really 
pretty cool. It can learn your patterns so it raises the temp and lowers 
it in line with your habits, for example. It even senses when no one is 
home and drops the temp to a pre-set lower level, then "wakes up" when 
it senses people in the house. I walk by the one in my hall and it 
lights up -- motion detector.

But, I think it emerged from the mind of uber geek Paul Allan, and when 
a geek designs an interface to something that will be used by the hoi 
poloi, well, the results are pretty, but confusing, and then the 
documentation that's written for it only adds to the confusion, and now 
Google has taken it all over (cameras, security systems, etc., etc. 
etc.) and they created an app that is supposed to interface with ALL 
those Internet of Things gadgets via WiFi.

Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get me.

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