Nest has native Connected Home integration

[dywicked]

Not much else to say.

[upstatemike]

Working great but I wish I could ask the current setting of a thermostat before deciding what to change it to. At least if you say "raise the kitchen furnace 1 degree" Alexa will respond with the new set point so you know where you are.

[dywicked]

Working great but I wish I could ask the current setting of a thermostat before deciding what to change it to. At least if you say "raise the kitchen furnace 1 degree" Alexa will respond with the new set point so you know where you are.

It's funny because on their March 3 blog post https://nest.com/blog/2016/03/03/nest-and-alexa-working-together/ they specifically refer to skills in addition to Connected Home and say you will be able to: "ask about the temperature and humidity." My assumption is that there is a skill still under development. Since skills can do so much more than CoHo and syntax isn't as limited, they are probably more difficult to get right (also considering UDIs experience with the skill). It also seems like there has been a race for thermostats in CoHo and Nest probably didn't want to be left too far in the dust and so prioritized this over the skill. Either way, progress so I'm happy.

 

-David