How do I add Nest Thermostat into ST?

Devices & Integrations
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Glad you got it working. I also greatly appreciate the hard work Dianoga and others have done. The apps they have created are what have kept me using SmartThings. They should get a royalty from the company!

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Iā€™m not offended by things people do. I will merge any pull requests I receive. Iā€™m not actually using this version anymore, so any work other people do to keep it working is much appreciated.

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Great, glad I didnā€™t offend. Is there an updated version?

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Iā€™m using what will someday be the official integration. Unfortunately, it isnā€™t generally available yet. Iā€™m hoping it will be in the near future.

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Just wondering if thereā€™s any update? Hearing there may be an official integration is great!

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Getting Error Message:

Cannot get property ā€˜uriā€™ on null object @ line 525. Any ideas?

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Hello,

I still canā€™t get this work, I followed Luisvā€™s instructions, input my username/password and serial and my nest icon under things has no info showing up eg: temp etc

Any ideas as to what i need to check?

Thanks

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No matter which source code I use, I only get the one preference - name. I canā€™t get the serial or anything else to appear. Please help!

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In hopes that this helps someoneā€¦ i got it workingā€¦ by doing nothing. I went to bed that night with the nest not working, when i woke up the next morning, i was able to control my nest. I cant explain itā€¦ i shut down and closed the ST app many times before calling it a night.

My advice is to waitā€¦ maybe smartthings could sometimes take awhile to refresh in the back end???

My only question is with regards to the slider vs the buttonsā€¦ what does comment/uncomment mean? I have the slider now but like to use the buttons instead.

Thanks

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Hello,
I am new to the ST community. I am attempting to make the provided code work. I think I have followed all the instructions; however, when I open preferences, there are no options to add any other info than the name. What could I be doing wrong?

thanks for your help.

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Thanks for the detailed instructions. Took me awhile to figure it out since Iā€™m not tech savy either. Although I do like the Nest app, it is nice to have everything in the Smartthings app.

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When I try and add the code I get an eorror ā€œJava.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Metadata definition not foundā€ at the top of the page when I click on ā€œcreateā€

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Same thing here. I have tried everything imaginable. :confused:

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Same here. Very frustrating. All I get is the option to name the thermostat. Can someone assist us?

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OK, I figured this thing out for those of you who canā€™t get the option to input your Nest account login info. The instructions found are different in a few places, and often incomplete. But if you follow the instructions inside the code on this page it should work --> https://github.com/smartthings-users/device-type.nest/blob/master/nest.devicetype.groovy

For the first time (Iā€™ve done this over abut 5 times) I actually had to choose capabilities and create custom attributes and commands (lines 12-30). I had not done that previously in other instructions.

But most importantly: MAKE SURE you follow line 37 ( * Type: Nest (should be the last option) very carefully. DO NOT choose ā€œNest Thermostatā€ that is mid way through the list and in the Nā€™s alphabetically. You have to scroll to the bottom to find ā€œNestā€ that you created. I am fairly sure this is where everyone who canā€™t get the login option is going wrong.

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Thanks, this helped. I can see and control my Nest as a thing, but the information never refreshes unless I manually tell it to do so. Is there a way to automatically refresh (temp, humidity, heating/cooling status, etc.)?

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Are you using iOS? Do you have Background App Refresh turned on?

There are two places Iā€™ve found that have background update settings. (Iā€™m using iOS 8.2)

  1. Settings - donā€™t click on anything else but scroll way down to SmartThings. Location / Background App Refresh / Use Cellular Data should all probably be on.

  2. Settings / General / Background App Refresh - toggle on SmartThings

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Thank you for the pointers, but I am using Android.

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Thank you so much! This is what I couldnā€™t figure out also. Once I made this exact change, everything showed up like it should.

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I got through the instructions no problems but I seem to have quite a few issues. If I adjust the temperature on the thermostat itself or through the nest app it never gets updated on smarthings unless I go to the thermostat and click the refresh button. Even when I do that however it doesnā€™t fire the operating state event when the operating state changes nor does it fire the coolingsetpointchanged event no matter where I change the temperature.