I have (2), what do you want to know exactly?
You want everyone to search for this item? That's a lot of wasted hours.
Link please.
I think they are bad ass, just wondering if you save you any money at all. I think the fact it is beautiful, and you can control your temp from your phone or any internet connection is awesome. Let alone the airwave capability and the fact it learns your schedule makes it worth. Just kinda curious if I could expect to save any $.
Now that Lowes is selling them, I am thinking about getting their movers coupons for 10% off and buying them in store to save shipping and save 10%.
One thing I will caution you on, and this is important.
You must put this in an area that actually gets Traffic. It senses movement, and learns from it. If you put it in an area that is not used often; it won't learn what's what.
Got mine a few weeks ago. I love it! It just learned enough to start doing auto-away, but unfortunately AirWave isn't active yet and my schedule is too unpredictable for it to learn much of anything.
To answer a few questions I saw, though...
If you have more than one Nest, they will communicate with each other over wifi. If your upstairs thermostat sees nothing and the downstairs thermostat does, neither will go into Auto-Away. I think the timeout is 2 hours, and you can always turn off the feature if it doesn't work for you. You can also manually set it to away from the device itself or the app.
The Nest is a lot smaller than my old thermostat. I elected to patch and paint my wall before installing mine. However, there are two plastic plates (one large, one small) included to cover holes or blemishes.
And as a bonus, the Nest smells just like a new Apple product when you take it out of the packaging.
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One thing I will caution you on, and this is important.
You must put this in an area that actually gets Traffic. It senses movement, and learns from it. If you put it in an area that is not used often; it won't learn what's what.
Sounds like it'd be great of you could add remote motion sensors in alternate rooms.
How exactly do remote sensors work
You could do that, but I actually had something different in mind.You would disable the motion sensor inside the Nest, install a motion sensor elsewhere in the room (remotely), and connect it inside the Next where the internal motion sensor was. I suspect you wouldn't want to do this yourself.
You could do that, but I actually had something different in mind.
Since the Nest is already WiFi enabled, why not have additional motion sensors, connected by wifi, throughout the house? It would give the Nest a more accurate picture of when the residents are home, and no additional wiring needed.
I doubt it, and you're right: in some sense it would be overkill to "automate" a home like a large building.Is the Nest programmed with a polling option? A typical thermostat, even a "smart" one, doesn't have the capability of polling multiple sensors (temperature or motion) and adjusting accordingly. This is usually the work of a full-blown building automation system, which is overkill for a single-zone A/C unit like a house is equipped with.
I suspect there are many houses where one sensor just isn't enough... no matter where Nest was put, it wouldn't have a reliable indicator of whether someone was home, which defeats its entire purpose.
I agree. Which is probably why I wouldn't consider a Nest. But I think it's a step in the right direction.When we moved into our house, I replaced our thermostats with programmable ones. I set them to raise the temperature to 85 degrees in summer when we aren't home, and programmed it for us to be "not home" during our work hours and all day on weekends. It's a simple matter to override this if you're actually home when it thinks you're not, but we're almost never gone when it's programmed for us to be home - so it's never trying to keep the house at 76 when we're gone. Not quite as savvy as a stat with an occupancy sensor, but every bit as effective.
Imagine a thermostat that could use the motion sensors that are also used by your security system, which are also used by your lights, hot water heater, etc. A house that really knows when you're home, and when you're not, and all of your systems acted accordingly.
When we moved into our house, I replaced our thermostats with programmable ones. I set them to raise the temperature to 85 degrees in summer when we aren't home, and programmed it for us to be "not home" during our work hours and all day on weekends. It's a simple matter to override this if you're actually home when it thinks you're not, but we're almost never gone when it's programmed for us to be home - so it's never trying to keep the house at 76 when we're gone. Not quite as savvy as a stat with an occupancy sensor, but every bit as effective.