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All the Nest marketing rhetoric always compares it to a standard non-programmable thermostat. Obviously it will be better than that. What I really want to know
by plg 13y ago
All the Nest marketing rhetoric always compares it to a standard non-programmable thermostat. Obviously it will be better than that. What I really want to know it, how much better is it than my fully-programmable thermostat? I can program 4 times slots x 7 days per week: {"wake", "away", "home", "sleep"} x {M,T,W,T,F,S,S} on my current thermostat... and I take full advantage. Until Nest shows me a more meaningful benchmark I'm not sold.
- area51org 13y agoThe Nest marketing I've seen compares it to a programmable thermostat. The idea is that instead of just having the heater or AC come on at regular times, it should behave in a more nuanced way. Your own patterns of turning it up and down matter, but so does the weather (it checks) and whether or not anyone is actually home.
- Terretta 13y agoIt also now handles when the Nest is in a hot spot, for example a wall that a patch of sun crosses during the day. I was having trouble with that, we talked about it at length and shared historical temp readings vs other seven zones in the house, and they even sent me a new unit to make sure it was the sun not the unit. A few months later, the had an update for this issue.
- ceejayoz 13y ago> What I really want to know it, how much better is it than my fully-programmable thermostat? For us, the key bit is the away detection. My wife and kids have an irregular schedule during the week - they might go to the zoo, they might take a nap at home - that can't be programmed, and most people (us included) aren't interested in adjusting the thing a dozen times a day. Nest has been quite good at noticing that we've been out for a while and adjusting accordingly.