Nest Gen 4

Third party integrations
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All, I’ve got two new Nest Gen 4 thermostats in the house. They are great and use the external temperature sensors. I want to bring them into Home Assistant. In my garage, I have the Gen 3 thermostat and was able to get that into HA using the Nest integration; however, the Gen 4 thermostats do not show up.

The Gen 4 Thermostats work ONLY with the Google Home application, not the other Nest only application. Is there any way to bring these into HA? I’ve heard of HomeKit integration, but have not gotten into that at all, so any tips would be appreciated.

Thank you,

E

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Well, turns out I’m a dumbass. These things run on Matter itself. Integration works great:

On Android:

Google Home App > Select Thermostat > Setting Gear Icon > Device Information > Linked Matter Apps & Services > Link Apps and Services.

Easy.

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This seems to indicate that it’s 100% local, is that true?

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This is great, thank you for sharing this solution.

New nest devices usually take some time to show up over the SDM API unfortunately, but this even better that they can be used with matter directly.

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Could you share what entities are exposed via Matter?

I’m curious which features are available via Matter vs. through the Google Home app.

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Would also like to know this. I want to know if I can select which sensor is used from home assistant.

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I recently installed and configured one. I was able to successfully link it to both HomeKit and Home Assistant via Matter. However, in both platforms, only a climate entity is exposed. Additional temperature sensors (I paired five with the thermostat) and presets (comfort, eco, sleep, etc.) are not exposed. I’ve attached screenshots from HA for reference.

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Are you able to manually control the fan (fan without heat or AC)?