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Its 2020 and your thermostat now needs to talk to something outside your house to adjust the temperature? No thanks.
by api 6y ago
Its 2020 and your thermostat now needs to talk to something outside your house to adjust the temperature? No thanks.
- olyjohn 6y agoNo, it still works fine offline. I just couldn't use the app this morning to preheat the house. I actually had to get up out of bed to adjust it. Which, I'm not complaining about at all.
- thrwn_frthr_awy 6y agoI think what api is referring to is there isn't a good reason why you shouldn't be able to use your phone to adjust your thermostat on your local network without leaving the internal network.
- anonymousiam 6y agoNoticed my Nests were down earlier. They are back up now. As far as working "fine" offline, I have another gripe about my Nest thermostats: Why is the sample rate on the temperature so damn slow? One of my zones is a small (~500 sq/ft) room and the HVAC can move the temperature there rather quickly. What always happens is the heat/cool usually stays on well beyond the desired set point. This is because the device does not sample the temperature often enough. If the mode is set to heat & cool, the heat and AC will both oscillate on and off forever unless the min and max are more than 5 degrees apart. It's not a matter of the Nest sensor lagging because of its heat capacity because I have tried a heat gun and freeze spray to observe the sample rate. It really sucks.