[Ipg-smz] nest app for Linux?

[Lynn Greiner]

I don't entirely trust Nest's privacy. Looking at the Ecobee instead. Two of
their models were PC Mag Editor's Choice this year, FWIW.

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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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