Some People Couldn’t Turn On Their A/C When Google Went Down Over the Weekend by Madison Malone Kircher Tech is great. I love tech. Really, I do. I come home each night to my apartment, where I enjoy casting Netflix shows from my laptop to my television and telling my Amazon Echo to set a timer while my tea steeps. But sometimes it seems like maybe — just maybe — some things don’t need to be technologically optimized. Like turning on your air conditioner. Over the weekend, a Google Cloud outage meant some users were unable to control certain smart-home products, including — you guessed it — air conditioning. Among the smart-home problems caused by Google’s servers going down: • One user reporting that he couldn’t turn on his A/C because the Nest app was down. (As he acknowledges, he could have used his house’s manual thermostat — except that it was located behind a mounted TV.) • Another user saying he couldn’t use his Nest cameras as baby monitors: Read more on: Google Cloud Outage Impacts Nest Smart Locks and A/C Related Article: Smart Door Locks: Easy, Secure, and No Keys Necessary! If you need lock upgrades, give Ravenna Locksmith OH a call for a FREE estimate.
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