misktoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·6 months agoAfter 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat(www.theverge.com)external-linkarrow-up1370arrow-down19message-square129fedilink
arrow-up1361arrow-down1external-linkAfter 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat(www.theverge.com)misktoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·6 months agomessage-square129fedilink
minus-squareRagingSnarkasmEnglisharrow-up90arrow-down1·6 months agolinkfedilink16 years? That’s like 8 separate Google project lifetimes.
minus-squaresramderEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·6 months agolinkfedilinkThey just killed my nest cameras, but the thermostat is still supported. I was planning on replacing it with an ecobee this year just because API access is kind of a pain but this is giving me some second thoughts.
minus-squarelaurelravenEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down0·5 months agolinkfedilinkKilled, as in the thing you paid for is basically worthless now? That’s not just planned obsolescence, it’s forced obsolescence
minus-squaresramderEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·5 months agolinkfedilinkYeah. Although they were honestly long past their prime, and I wasn’t using them anymore so it’s hard to be upset. They could even be set in RSTP mode before they dropped support from the app, so they could still be useful.
16 years? That’s like 8 separate Google project lifetimes.
That’s 591 Mooches haha
They just killed my nest cameras, but the thermostat is still supported. I was planning on replacing it with an ecobee this year just because API access is kind of a pain but this is giving me some second thoughts.
Killed, as in the thing you paid for is basically worthless now?
That’s not just planned obsolescence, it’s forced obsolescence
Yeah. Although they were honestly long past their prime, and I wasn’t using them anymore so it’s hard to be upset.
They could even be set in RSTP mode before they dropped support from the app, so they could still be useful.