Can nest.class.php be made to work with 'DEVICE_HEXADECIMAL' directly?

[puterboy]

Suppose I manually set up a mapping between each SERIALNUMBER and the corresponding DEVICE_HEXADECIMAL.

Could the class then be set up to work using the corresponding DEVICE_HEXADECIMAL url formats RATHER than having to go through the pain of unpairing the thermostat and resetting the WWN connection as per #135?

I don't know PHP so not sure how to change this but assuming that the PHP code is really just wrapping a bunch of GET/PUT html calls, then it seems like it should work since after all the web app works with DEVICE_HEXADECIMAL references.

Perhaps this could even be automated by scraping the initial login page to see the DEVICE_HEXADECIMAL numbers...

[bauzer714]

Hey @puterboy, when my Nest has switched to the hexadecimal number I've not been able to reverse engineer the serial or endpoints to be functional. I have a suspicion when the switch occurs it's utilizing the Google Home infrastructure rather than the Nest infrastructure.

[knappster1]

My nest is back in the situation where it is DEVICE_HEXADECIMAL. I planned to reset WWN as I have done before using this: #135 but unfortunately my nest no longer has this option. The reset options are:
Restart
Schedule
Away
Account Connection
All Settings

Are there any workarounds anymore?

[bauzer714]

It's been a few years since I've looked into it, but I'll check it out as mine went through this upgrade again and I can't seem to get it been to the old connection.

I'm guessing they're slowly killing it after removing the old nest 1 and 2 now.

[pfremm]

@knappster1, @bauzer714 did you end up coming up with a solution?

[bauzer714]

I didn't spend a lot of time on it. I have a home assistant instance running so I switched to utilizing their implementation.