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I've had a Nest for a few years now and it's been pretty good for my uses so far. When we moved to San Diego to a house with only central heat, no AC, I still dropped $70 on the same thermostat just to have access to the 'what temperature is it in my house right now' feature. I saved about $120 in utility bills in the first 8 months I had it, living in the nebulous division of the continental climate and humid subtropical climate in the midwest. Easy to use, well-designed, and it just works.

#Nest thermostat thinks im away android#

I expected very little from Honeywell, who I regard as a quaint, old-skool company, but their Android and web apps are simply excellent. Nervous that my 14-year-old system would annihilate a very expensive toy, and that my wife staying at home would make the thing pointless, regardless, I bought a $100 Wifi Honeywell with a traditional 7-day calendar. EEs were comparing the Nest's voltage regulators to that of a generic $20 thermostat and finding the generic more reliable in every aspect. People spoke of Nests being fried by voltage surges in 'old' (a scant 4 years!) HVAC systems. All sorts of people bought $300 Nests, only to discover their 8-year-old equipment was apparently not compatible with it.

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People came home to apartments that were 90* because their heaters were stuck on full blast during the summer.

But then I started reading the 1-star reviews on Amazon, and the support forums. When I was ready to switch to a programmable thermostat to save money, I really, really wanted to like the Nest. Your comments are worrying, but match a disappointing number of other users. Watch this hilarious video if you're considering buying a Nest Protect: (warning: loud alarms in video)

'Alert: your house is on fire.' Then you rush home and realize it's a false alarm.Īfter our fourth or fifth false alarm we returned them all and replaced them with the old-fashioned alarms. The worst feeling is when you get an alert on your iPhone while nobody (but your pet) is home. Not once have I been able to turn off an alarm without removing the batteries. Well, every time it goes off, it tells me that 'this alarm cannot be silenced' - even by pushing the power button. The one flippin' reason I bought a Nest Protect was so I could 'wave to silence' an alarm.

#Nest thermostat thinks im away driver#

So, when it decides to wake up the entire house at 3am (yes, the entire house, since they all go off in unison) you'll need to go find a screw driver to get it to shut up. With Nest, you actually need a screw driver to open the battery compartment to turn it off. With a normal detector, you can just pull the battery if it refuses to shut off. The smoke detector goes off all the time - without rhyme or reason. The Nest thermostat is a dream compared to the smoke detector. I've told family and friends to stay away as well. I wanted to love this product, but it fails spectacularly at the ONE thing it's supposed to do, which is to let us set a comfortable temperature for our house.īecause of this experience, I absolutely avoid their smoke detectors (I was ready to buy three of them before buying the thermostat). This is a the worst kind of sin of user experience, when a user feels like the machine controls them, and not the other way round.Īs big a nerd as I am, and loved that the Nest shook up the thermostat industry, I absolutely regret buying a Nest. I have taken photos where I've set the thermostat at 90 degrees, the room is at about 60 degrees, and the Nest hasn't turned the heating unit on. The heater doesn't come on, we're freezing and the thing has a mind of its own.

With the nest, which is downstairs, when we're cold, we turn the nest up, we get weird '+2 hour' things, and nothing happens. When it's cold, we turn that needle up, and we get warm. My absolutely ugly, crappy old thermostat with a needle on it works WAY better than the nest (thankfully we have it upstairs where we sleep). I usually don't curse on HN but I can barely contain my hate for this product. I have a nest and it is a real piece of shit.