Or any alternatives? I’d love to hear some real world testimonials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3JzZsE8Xas
Does anyone use NEST?
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Or any alternatives? I’d love to hear some real world testimonials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3JzZsE8Xas
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have two of the second generation thermostats. Love them, they make life so much easier turning down and raising temperatures when the house is empty. I also have mine talk to a smart lightbulb so that the light bulb gets turned on and off when we are not the in house making it appear like there is someone.
Really easy to use on the wall, on your phone or online – three ways to access your thermostat from anywhere. My wife loves being able to turn the heat on in the house when we are about 45 minutes away so it is comfy…..
Definitely a good item to install.
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I use the Nest thermostat. A little pricey but well worth it. You get to track every time your furnace kicks on so if you like to look at graphs month to month that’s kind of neat.
But what is killer:
• You are going to be back at the house in an hour after being gone two days? Click the app and dial up the heat and it will be warm by the time you get home.
• Super simple to set up a schedule, kick the temp up a bit at 5AM, drop it at 8AM, back up at 6PM, up all weekend, you just move and add sliders to each day.
• After a week or so it starts thinking for you and dropping temp if you haven’t walked in front of it for a while.
It’s pretty and still interesting to look at. I have a vertical stack of instruments, a tide clock, a barometer, and a Nest, three circles that I look at all the time.
There are cheaper alternatives out there but they are not as stylish and not nearly as easy to set and change in an instant.
• one last: it tells you when the power is out at your house. How? It won’t respond from the phone app. All three times I could not reach it the past two winters it was because power was out in the whole neighborhood. A flip over to Cape Ann Online and sure enough they were talking about it.
To be clear: from your laptop or smart phone, click the link and you can instantly see what temp is inside your house. It also shows how cold it is outside and the weather, it’s just grabbing the local weather off wunderground.
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Yes I have two Nest thermostats for both heating and cooling and have had excellent results with them. The remote control is fabulous, the auto away works a treat. The ability to create a schedule online is nice. The auto-schedule works well if you don’t want to set one up. Only issue I have experienced is if you have a power outage, when the WiFi comes back up it can sometimes take a while for the Nest to reconnect. Also very quick and easy to install.
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We’ve been using a Nest thermostat since shortly after they came to market, and we love it. It’s intuitive, programmable and can be controlled remotely through the Nest App and your home wireless network. Installation was straightforward and instructions were excellent. It is energy efficient and has really reduced our energy bills.
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One last comment to clarify:
A single Nest thermostat can control AC and heat. But the wires to both AC and furnace have to terminate in the same place. Often you will have the AC thermostat in the upstairs hallway where it gets hot first while the Furnace thermostat is in the living room. Probably smarter to get two Nests to replace each since if you moved the AC thermostat downstairs you get a crappy reading how hot it is upstairs.
And same with separate zones. Each zone needs one.
So the solution can be a mix. I put a Nest on the furnace but my AC thermostat upstairs is a 20 year old manual. I only want to run AC when I am actually there so not a problem. I’ll swap it for a 1st gen Nest in a couple years when the 5th gen Next is out with the ability to make coffee in the morning.
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Joey – Very big this way and almost all traffic enforcement this way is camera and passive…Highly wired CCTV everywhere. The one’s that are the best send the in-progress type information to smart phone and you have a record streaming technology is even being used in lapel camera’s very important to keep hands free for many reasons…even voice activated…
Technology is great but you also have to be careful with security also! Like Paul mentions above the Generation keeps changing with improvements lessons learned. I do not have any personal nest items myself but who knows what the future may hold! 🙂 Dave
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