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And people wonder why I didn't want Nest. I was already skeptical before it was bought out and I learned that without an Internet connection it wouldn't work.
by da_chicken 8y ago
And people wonder why I didn't want Nest. I was already skeptical before it was bought out and I learned that without an Internet connection it wouldn't work.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoMy girlfriend has a Nest at her work which saved her last week when the power cycled and the heating system turned off. She was able to restart it from home. I wouldn't be so thrilled to have a thermostat that requires internet to function at home. Or is that only for those networked features?
- buckminster 8y agoA dumb heater with a dumb mechanical timer connected to a dumb thermostat would have restarted too.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoIt wouldn't have been sufficient to save the buildings pipes in -30°C in a restaurant full of embedded draft lines, however. Nest did give her control over the entire building's system. IIRC it was actually an employee that shut the system off after a power cycle/outage thinking they were protecting the equipment, but failed to restart it. If she hadn't had the insight the system would have been off all night. I think it has its perks.