Remember when a house would be built and a thermostat installed, and that thermostat would just work for 40+ years?
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Repeat after me. Never. Buy. Google. Hardware.
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If your smart thing can’t survive without the cloud, it’s not a smart thing.
Unfortunately the number of smart thermostats that have a full local API is tiny.
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This is all a simple thermostat is. A bimetal strip that causes a contact to open or close. That's all this thing does for a furnace, close/open the "be on" signal path.

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