{"id":22151,"date":"2025-09-17T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/22151\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:35:06","slug":"tariffs-kill-the-starling-home-hub-google-nests-best-bridge-to-apple-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/22151\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs kill the Starling Home Hub, Google Nest\u2019s best bridge to Apple Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">I have bad news for ecosystem straddlers who use Google Nest products in their smart homes but rely on iPhones and Apple Home for control: the much-loved Starling Home Hub has been discontinued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starlinghome.io\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">message on its website<\/a>, Starling said it can no longer manufacture the hub due to \u201crapidly rising costs of doing business for small US-based product companies like us (most significantly, tariffs the US government charges us to obtain the components we need to build our product).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Starling Home Hub <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Nest\/comments\/cvpa4l\/starling_home_hub_plugandplay_connect_nest\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched in 2019<\/a>. At $99, it was billed as an independent bridge that let you control and automate Nest devices \u2014 including thermostats and cameras \u2014 in the Apple Home app and with Siri. It also supported local streaming for cameras, improving latency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google\u2019s Nest devices have never had direct integration with Apple\u2019s HomeKit platform. While Matter adoption has helped \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/4\/18\/23687751\/nest-thermostat-matter-support-apple-home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newer Nest thermostats now work in Apple Home<\/a> \u2014 older models and all cameras still remain outside Apple\u2019s ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you already own one, you\u2019re safe for the time being. Starling says it will continue to provide tech support and roll out security and bug fix updates, and hopes to have enough stock on hand to honor warranties. It\u2019s unclear what\u2019s next for the company, which to date has only produced this one device. The Verge has reached out for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">For now, the hub is gone \u2014 and so is a simple way to bring Google Nest products into Apple\u2019s smart home ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have bad news for ecosystem straddlers who use Google Nest products in their smart homes but rely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[670,133,20446,85,46,43,13905,920,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-22151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-assistant","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-smart-home","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}