Have & have been reapply happy with a Second Generation Nest Thermostat for a long time now, but recently got a notice from Google that they will be deprecating those & I'll have to upgrade in order to use it in any way other than as a dumb thermostat.
My mom had a nest thermostat (not the learning one, but the basic one) that never did work for her (worked with heating, but not cooling & even had an HVAC guy over to try to fix it). So it was basically brand new. I installed it over the weekend, and while the device is fine, the new Google Home App is garbage compared to the nest app.
To give one example, we have a lot of temperature presets, and in the Nest App, you could set them all by clicking on a chart of the day, it was really fast & really easy to do & graphically was easy to see how your days looked. In Google Home, there is no chart, it's just a list of temps, so you need to scroll through each of them & to add any, it's like a 10 step process (maybe not exactly, but it feels like it, and each one has to have a different name, or else you get a message that that already exists.
Plus, I can't find any way to set up different temps for Heating vs Cooling vs Heating/ Cooling, so I have to pick one set of temps year round. Not liking this at all & looking for a replacement, I'd be happy with HomeKit, but also happy with anything better than this trash app.
Any advice on HomeKit (or other) thermostats that work better/simpler than the ones using the Google Home App. Thanks in advance.
My mom had a nest thermostat (not the learning one, but the basic one) that never did work for her (worked with heating, but not cooling & even had an HVAC guy over to try to fix it). So it was basically brand new. I installed it over the weekend, and while the device is fine, the new Google Home App is garbage compared to the nest app.
To give one example, we have a lot of temperature presets, and in the Nest App, you could set them all by clicking on a chart of the day, it was really fast & really easy to do & graphically was easy to see how your days looked. In Google Home, there is no chart, it's just a list of temps, so you need to scroll through each of them & to add any, it's like a 10 step process (maybe not exactly, but it feels like it, and each one has to have a different name, or else you get a message that that already exists.
Plus, I can't find any way to set up different temps for Heating vs Cooling vs Heating/ Cooling, so I have to pick one set of temps year round. Not liking this at all & looking for a replacement, I'd be happy with HomeKit, but also happy with anything better than this trash app.
Any advice on HomeKit (or other) thermostats that work better/simpler than the ones using the Google Home App. Thanks in advance.
