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There's one reason to have a Nest smoke detector: it would have a thermostat. The reason I haven't bought a Nest is because the device only takes temperatures

by kposehn 13y ago

There's one reason to have a Nest smoke detector: it would have a thermostat. The reason I haven't bought a Nest is because the device only takes temperatures from one place in my house, which just happens to be a place that has a +/- 5 degree temperature change from either end of the house on a good day. If the device also gets the temp, a Nest would be far more effective at keeping a house comfortable and saving energy. I'd also worry less about my toddler daughter being alone in a bedroom on an cool night that is usually much cooler than my own (first world parent problems).

jcastro 13y ago
Yeah but does it really help the average home? If you have one thermostat in your house more temperature data doesn't really help, it can only set one temperature for the whole house. If you have a multi-zone house then yeah, your bottom floor and top floor could be set to multiple temperatures, but those houses typically have 2 thermostats already and if you're using 2 Nests for that they already talk to each other to make that efficient. It would be cool to be able to wire up individual ceiling fans or something to the Nest and then use the fire detectors to figure out which rooms are running too hot/cold and fire off fans individually to normalize the temperature.
- cstejerean 13y ago
  There's one example where I think targeting a specific room would help even without multi-zone. At night I only really care about the temperature in the bedroom, which is a lot smaller and in my experience cools faster than the living room (which is where my Nest is currently). If it could figure out that my bedroom is already at a comfortable temperature at night and not bother with the temperature in the living room, that might be interesting.
davidmr 13y ago
This might be the killer feature I mentioned in a previous post on this article. I own a 120 year old house with odd nooks and crannies and strange airflow. My thermostat knows the temperature in my living room, but not upstairs by my bedroom, which can be 10°F warmer or cooler, and we have to set the downstairs thermostat to odd temperatures at night just to make it remotely comfortable, and it's rarely the same temperature from night to night. That hassle would be worth some amount of money to eliminate. $150? Hell no. $100? Probably not. $60? Sign me up!

by kposehn 13y ago

jcastro 13y ago

Yeah but does it really help the average home? If you have one thermostat in your house more temperature data doesn't really help, it can only set one temperature for the whole house. If you have a multi-zone house then yeah, your bottom floor and top floor could be set to multiple temperatures, but those houses typically have 2 thermostats already and if you're using 2 Nests for that they already talk to each other to make that efficient. It would be cool to be able to wire up individual ceiling fans or something to the Nest and then use the fire detectors to figure out which rooms are running too hot/cold and fire off fans individually to normalize the temperature.

cstejerean 13y ago
There's one example where I think targeting a specific room would help even without multi-zone. At night I only really care about the temperature in the bedroom, which is a lot smaller and in my experience cools faster than the living room (which is where my Nest is currently). If it could figure out that my bedroom is already at a comfortable temperature at night and not bother with the temperature in the living room, that might be interesting.

davidmr 13y ago

This might be the killer feature I mentioned in a previous post on this article. I own a 120 year old house with odd nooks and crannies and strange airflow. My thermostat knows the temperature in my living room, but not upstairs by my bedroom, which can be 10°F warmer or cooler, and we have to set the downstairs thermostat to odd temperatures at night just to make it remotely comfortable, and it's rarely the same temperature from night to night. That hassle would be worth some amount of money to eliminate. $150? Hell no. $100? Probably not. $60? Sign me up!