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I love my Nest thermostat- it's still better than any other smart thermostat out there in build quality and reliability (tho the Ecobee series is slightly more

I love my Nest thermostat- it's still better than any other smart thermostat out there in build quality and reliability (tho the Ecobee series is slightly more feature rich) - but I can't say I'm surprised. Nest is, in many ways, the most disappointing company. I'm not sure how much of that is just down to them lacking vision or leadership though - they have the skills to do great things.

bratsche 10y ago
I have a Nest thermostat as well, and I like it. I've wondered before if they just had that one good idea and that was it. When they announced the smoke detector my jaw dropped. It just seemed like such an awful idea. I had thought maybe they would do a smart lawn watering system next. I know it's a smaller market, but it seemed better aligned with the thermostat as something that could be marketed as a money-saver. The smoke detector doesn't save you any money, it just seems like a solution in search of a problem. The lawn system could basically sell itself: local rebates on the up-front cost, the promise of saving you water/$$, and the name that Nest had already established from their thermostat. There are some other companies making products like this now, but I don't know if they're good.
- lstamour 10y ago
  Drives me slightly crazy seeing lawn sprinklers going while it's raining and humid...
  - Anechoic 10y ago
    Drives me slightly crazy seeing lawn sprinklers going while it's raining and humid.. The underground sprinkler system my parents installed 30 years ago has a sensor to prevent that, it's certainly not unusual. It would be interesting to see rain sensors for regular sprinters although I'd be shocked if they didn't already exist.
    - perishabledave 10y ago
      Haven't tried it, but Rachio makes sprinkler valves that adjust based off of weather reports.
logician76 10y ago
The build quality is definitely good. However I am very unpleased with the temperature sensor, it seems to only be accurate to more than 1 degree, with the software further adding a tolerance in when to turn on/off the AC/Heating I find myself constantly manually setting the temperature as I'm either freezing or getting too hot. A solution would be remote temperature sensors which people have been asking for since the beginning, but that never happened. I believe there are now thirdparty solutions that hook into Nest perhaps via IFTTT, but that turns the Nest in just a thermostate with remote on/off switch, which is basically the only feature that mostly works for me. (yeah even that isn't always robust)

bratsche 10y ago

I have a Nest thermostat as well, and I like it. I've wondered before if they just had that one good idea and that was it. When they announced the smoke detector my jaw dropped. It just seemed like such an awful idea. I had thought maybe they would do a smart lawn watering system next. I know it's a smaller market, but it seemed better aligned with the thermostat as something that could be marketed as a money-saver. The smoke detector doesn't save you any money, it just seems like a solution in search of a problem. The lawn system could basically sell itself: local rebates on the up-front cost, the promise of saving you water/$$, and the name that Nest had already established from their thermostat. There are some other companies making products like this now, but I don't know if they're good.

lstamour 10y ago
Drives me slightly crazy seeing lawn sprinklers going while it's raining and humid...
- Anechoic 10y ago
  Drives me slightly crazy seeing lawn sprinklers going while it's raining and humid.. The underground sprinkler system my parents installed 30 years ago has a sensor to prevent that, it's certainly not unusual. It would be interesting to see rain sensors for regular sprinters although I'd be shocked if they didn't already exist.
  - perishabledave 10y ago
    Haven't tried it, but Rachio makes sprinkler valves that adjust based off of weather reports.

logician76 10y ago

The build quality is definitely good. However I am very unpleased with the temperature sensor, it seems to only be accurate to more than 1 degree, with the software further adding a tolerance in when to turn on/off the AC/Heating I find myself constantly manually setting the temperature as I'm either freezing or getting too hot. A solution would be remote temperature sensors which people have been asking for since the beginning, but that never happened. I believe there are now thirdparty solutions that hook into Nest perhaps via IFTTT, but that turns the Nest in just a thermostate with remote on/off switch, which is basically the only feature that mostly works for me. (yeah even that isn't always robust)