Nest Thermostat API/Protocol
While Nest Labs hasn’t released a formal (documented & supported) API, I thought I’d do a bit of digging to see how they’re using the network and what might be achievable. A few things are going...
View Article.NET API for Nest Thermostat
I just finished a preliminary read-only (think version 0.1) wrapper around the Nest Thermostat API that is used by their mobile phone and web applications. As Nest doesn’t have a formal API yet, the...
View ArticleNest Thermostat Review, Update #10: Wifi Settings Missing
One more brief update about our Nest thermostats. After a few weeks of limited use of our HVAC system due to a very unusually warm late winter and early spring, I’d set the whole house to AWAY mode...
View ArticleNest Thermostat, Software Update 2.0
Nest recently released a new update to the software of the thermostat device (as well as their corresponding web and mobile applications). Some of the details may be found on their blog. A few of the...
View ArticleSpinning SVG Animation
Interested in learning a few capabilities of SVG animation this evening from JavaScript in a web page, I put together a simple demonstration. Click on the image to launch the demo. Animating SVG in a...
View ArticleUnofficial Nest API for Node JS as an NPM
Per the request of an anonymous user on Bitbucket, I have: Moved the code for the Nest API to GitHub. While I did have a preference for Bitbucket (free private hosting!!!), I moved it anyway. I also...
View ArticleAdded Away/Home to unofficial-nest-api
I just finished adding a new simple feature to control the away status for a structure to my unofficial-nest-api published on GitHub and available as a node package (npm). Usage is simple as calling...
View ArticleNest Thermostat Wifi Connectivity Issues?
I’ve been seeing more Wifi issues recently with my Nest thermostats. I don’t see a pattern to the problem, and it seems to randomly affect all of them (sometimes at the same time, but often just one)....
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