Alternative Weather Tiles and Nest Thermostat Tiles into SharpTools?

[GHN1013]

Hi there,

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New to Sharptools since they finally disabled ActionTiles. Is there an Alternative Weather Tiles (other then Open Weather) and any Nest Thermostat Tiles workarounds into SharpTools? I can add devices via SmarTthings or Hubitat into SharpTools.

Thanks.

[josh]

@GHN1013

Is there an Alternative Weather Tiles (other then Open Weather)

Is there something particular you are looking for? Or something particular you don’t like about the Open Weather options? Other options noted here:

Where can I find weather tiles? - SharpTools Knowledge Base

@GHN1013

and any Nest Thermostat Tiles workarounds into SharpTools?

SmartThings is not allowed to expose the Nest Thermostats to other integrations as part of their partnership agreement with Nest.

Other hubs like Hubitat and Home Assistant offer community integrations for integrating Nest Thermostats and you can integrate those into SharpTools. There’s also a feature request open for a direct Nest integration, but there are some potential challenges with that as noted here:

Google's Nest Thermostat API's

The increased vote count helps, but there’s still other considerations. When Google first rolled out their version of the Nest API, they required an annual security audit and implied it was in the 5-6 figure range depending on implementation which would be between hard and impossible to justify. They are a bit more vague now simply indicating that an annual security audit is required and that the annual cost is on a case-by-case basis. Unfortunately, it seems like it might be a chicken-and-eg…

[Bruce_Lowry]

Weather Tile Resource - Codebuffer.net

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