Nest Adds 15 More Companies To Its “Works With Nest” Program

Nest is today announcing significant new partners to its “Works with Nest” developer program. The new additions continues Nest’s quest to turn its product into the heart of a smart home.

Among the new partners includes Lutron, Insteon, and Philips Hue. Each company built Nest products into its ecosystem. For example, now, with the Lutron intigration, home owners can control lights, shades and thermostat from the Lutron Caséta Wireless App, which also works with Lutron’s growing smart home system.

Nest also penned partnerships with August Smart Lock, Automatic, LG appliances, Unikey and Withings to build the Nest Thermostat into their products. Interestingly, though, Ooma and Philips Hue worked the Nest Protect into their system. With Ooma, when the Nest Protect detects smoke or CO2, it will dial a local emergenct service while the Philips Hue lightbulbs will flash different colors.

Best of all, all these functions are available without a 3rd party service like IFTTT.

Nest is also announcing upcoming “Works with Nest” partners that are expected to launch functionality in the coming months. This including Big Ass Fans, Beep, Chargepoint, OSRAM, Stakc, Whirlpool, and Zuli.

Nest rolled out its “Works with Nest” program six months ago. So far the company has been successful signing up big players in the industry and today’s announcement further cements Nest as a staple in the smart home.

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