Nest Outage for Apps, Thermostats, Protect, and Live Feed

I find it so annoying that Nest devices (thermostats, cameras, and security system) aren&#x27;t directly accessible via my phone over my local network. Why do I have to transmit my requests from my phone to the cloud and then have it come back down to the device in my home? This means I can&#x27;t connect during Nest outages or (much more frequently) when my internet is down.<p>Even when there are no outages, it still takes ~10 seconds every time I open up the Home app for it to populate any information.<p>By contrast, I can open the app for my Wyze cam and be seeing&#x2F;hearing the live feed in ~5 seconds. (I still don&#x27;t love the cloud-first aspect of the Wyze cam, but it was dirt cheap and that&#x27;s the primary reason I got it. Nest products aren&#x27;t cheap, so I expect better performance, not worse.)

That explains why I couldn&#x27;t turn up the heat before getting out of bed this morning. :P At least the thermostat itself is still working fine.

Funny, I spent the past hour on a chat with Nest trying to fix an issue with my thermostat being too dim to see, they had me factory reset it, and then it couldn’t get set back up. Spent an hour chasing that down, to finally have him say Nest is experiencing issues.<p>Then I come here and see this, life is funny.

No local access and&#x2F;or physical control =&gt; don&#x27;t buy it. No exceptions.

Now my wife will have to walk to the thermostat instead of text me it&#x27;s too hot in the house.

I&#x27;m looking for an alternative to my Nest Outdoor CamIQ. I want a camera that uses as little internet bandwidth as possible (because of LTE hotspot) but will still alert me when there is motion and will allow me to remotely monitor (using lots of bandwidth). Any recommendations?

Last year the wifi functionality broke on my nest thermostat, and I lived without a smart thermostat for months! Google did replace it for free when I finally got around to making a support ticket, so at least for me it was a positive experience.

We inherited a Nest thermostat in the house we bought last year. It&#x27;s fine. But I certainly never considered hooking it up to the network. And this is why.

Expected event expectedly happens.

The status is now showing OK on the website, but I had to force quit my (iOS) app and re-open it to be able to see anything.

Glad I used an old fashioned Honeywell for my core home security alarm and did the smart cameras on a separate system.