diff --git a/source/_includes/custom/grid_item_left.html b/source/_includes/custom/grid_item_left.html index 7385c018965..2a7759e259e 100644 --- a/source/_includes/custom/grid_item_left.html +++ b/source/_includes/custom/grid_item_left.html @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Home Assistant will track the state of all the devices in your home, so you don'
  • Philips Hue
  • Belkin WeMo
  • Google Chromecast
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  • Nest Thermostat
  • PushBullet
  • Netgear, Tomato and OpenWRT routers
  • Tellstick devices & sensors
  • diff --git a/source/_posts/2015-01-13-nest-in-da-house.markdown b/source/_posts/2015-01-13-nest-in-da-house.markdown new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c074aa7c0c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_posts/2015-01-13-nest-in-da-house.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Nest in the house!" +description: "Home Assistant has added Nest to its list of supported products." +date: 2015-01-13 08:29:04 -0800 +date_formatted: January 13, 2015 +comments: true +categories: component +--- + +For thet majority of its existence, Home Assistant primary focus was on presence detection, lights and switches. But not anymore as we're expanding the supported devices. Today, we're proud to introduce Nest Thermostat integration for Home Assistant contributed by [Stefano Fiorini](https://github.com/sfiorini)! + +

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    + +The new integration exists out of two parts: a generic thermostat component and a Nest platform implementation. The initial version implements provides a read-only card and services to control it. The plan is in the future to add temperature and away mode controls from the thermostat card and more info dialog. Internally, we are using the Python package [python-nest by jkoelker](https://github.com/jkoelker/python-nest) to talk to the Nest. + +If you own a Nest thermostat, add the following lines to your `home-assistant.conf`: + +``` +[thermostat] +platform=nest +username=YOUR_USERNAME +password=YOUR_PASSWORD +``` diff --git a/source/images/screenshots/nest-thermostat-card.png b/source/images/screenshots/nest-thermostat-card.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..356e848f043 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/screenshots/nest-thermostat-card.png differ