Looking for doorbell, thermostat, and smoke alarm combos with Nest. Wondering if I should wait til Black Friday?
I'd buy the nest protect in multi packs based on how many you need, which will very likely be cheaper around Black Friday (99 each is good price). Bundle doorbell with hub. Bundle thermostat with anything you can. I have all of these products mentioned here, and love them. For thermostat make sure you have single stage or if multistage it needs to be setup to emulate single stage furnace.
These are not good prices. The Hub goes on sale for $59 fairly regularly, so that would make the Home in the deal $180. I bought a Home when they first came out for $70. Not familiar with Home Max pricing as I always found it to be way too much and it dropped from my radar. I'd like a better speaker, but not for hundreds more.
I wanted to say something dumb about if you had people buying special audio to laser equipment to hack into your house you have bigger problems but you're right. It doesn't take much effort to keep these away from windows and even though this hack is largely conceptual today, it doesn't mean it can't be commercialized soon like what happened to card skimmers. And people with these linked to door locks/garage doors/alarm systems would be very susceptible then.
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I think it's the other way around. "Nest" is being added to the device names.
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I'd buy the nest protect in multi packs based on how many you need, which will very likely be cheaper around Black Friday (99 each is good price). Bundle doorbell with hub. Bundle thermostat with anything you can. I have all of these products mentioned here, and love them. For thermostat make sure you have single stage or if multistage it needs to be setup to emulate single stage furnace.
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I wanted to say something dumb about if you had people buying special audio to laser equipment to hack into your house you have bigger problems but you're right. It doesn't take much effort to keep these away from windows and even though this hack is largely conceptual today, it doesn't mean it can't be commercialized soon like what happened to card skimmers. And people with these linked to door locks/garage doors/alarm systems would be very susceptible then.