Question: Let me stress that I am not a programmer but I like messing around with things. I've been using @ifttt and @nest for years and recently started using @smartthings to do cool things in my house. 

I wanted to power off devices such as my lights and water heater based on leaving my house. Rather than having this depend on one device such as a phone or keyfoob, I wanted to use the nest "auto-away" feature.

Auto-away doesn't appear to be exposed to @ifttt or @smartthings. I've asked @nestsupport and they told me to come here :-o. 

Does anyone from nest developer team know when developers and other products will be able to consume this from he nest device? Its a real shame that after several years this isn't exposed yet. Not only that but it could be an additional selling point to integrate and turn on/off items in your house.

Thank

Answer: 
I'm not from the Nest developer team, but I've played around with the Nest API in the past, and use it to plot my energy usage.

The 'auto away' information is already accessible in the API, and looks to be used in a number of IFTTT recipes:

<https://ifttt.com/recipes/search?q=auto+away&ac=false>

Within the (JSON) data received back in the API, the 'auto away' status is accessible via;

```
shared->{serial_number}->auto_away

```

This is set as a boolean (0 or 1).

If you like messing around with code, and know any PHP, then this PHP class for the Nest API is very useful at grabbing all information etc;

<https://github.com/gboudreau/nest-api>
Auto-Away is and always has been readable <https://developer.nest.com/documentation/cloud/api-overview#away>