Nest is loosing money hand over fist so may not be long before Alphabet shut them down like the do to lots of their products (reader /wave). Nest themselves just shutdown their Revolv product bricking all their customers units despite a "lifetime" warranty.
Do your research before buying and if you can live with a £100 paperweight ignore the warning signs.

No they haven't.

The Nest team shut down Revolv. Which was a separate home automation product they bought themselves. (Although they were owned by google at the time.)

No versions of Nest have been shut down.


Remote access. Far more flexible programming. Geo-fencing options (in some cases). But the main gain over a standard dumb thermostat is the learning capability. A dumb thermostat will come on at a preset time and blast your heating until it gets to a certain temperature. Regardless of the conditions in (and outside) your house. Smart ones learn the heating characteristics of your house over the first few weeks or months of running and make use of them to run your heating. They'll also factor in external weather if they're a good one (no idea if Nest does .... my Netatmo does). Mine used to use forecast data off the internet. But added the weather station to mine so it knows the exact conditions in my back garden and heats the house using this information.

They are fantastic systems when done right. My heating is much more consistent and efficient since I put mine in. All houses should be fitting them.

Google have already started disabling older versions of Nest. [url=uk.businessinsider.com/googles-nest-closing-smart-home-company-revolv-bricking-devices-2016-4]Source[/url]

I wouldn't touch Nest with a barge pole. Google will shut it down with a year or two.

What a pointless stupid comment.

can you control the hot water tank with this like the brittish gas one?

If did in fact go cheaper for a day or two back in January. I paid £117.29 for mine (also got £10 off in Amazon's thank you offer thing)

dr76- 3rd gen needed for got water control. NPower still doing them for £129 for customers (device only). Very pleased with mine, but this is a great price for the 2nd generation.

Thank you OP - ordered (there's only 1 left in stock now guys)

Ordered one too, thanks OP!

Excellent price

takes a little bit of practice but a good bit of kit imo