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The tricky bit is the learning; the first few weeks or so with it I was adjusting it all the time, now I don't need to do that, it knows I prefer to go to bed w
by jcastro 13y ago
The tricky bit is the learning; the first few weeks or so with it I was adjusting it all the time, now I don't need to do that, it knows I prefer to go to bed warm and wake up cool and just sets the right temperature.
I thought the phone app would be gimmicky, but it's nice to be able to get off the plane and un-autoaway the thing so by the time you get home it's comfortable.
- ghaff 13y agoMy problem is that I don't really have patterns. Sometimes work from home, sometimes don't. Do a lot of traveling. Hours vary quite a bit. The only thing that would tempt me about Nest other than general coolness is that I could remotely turn down heat when traveling if I forgot before leaving. But that's not worth $250.
- dclara 13y agoTotally agree with you. The down side is not only machine learning may not meet my satisfaction, it may make me annoyed. My current thermostat works pretty well for me if I need adjust not too frequently everyday. A scheduled plan should be good enough if we really want to improve this kind of devices. The second problem is that it's lacking of systematic design. Think about we are going to have some many "Intenet of the things" in our home or office, we have to download some man apps, each of them needs cloud services which usually not free. This is how they make money after the hardware sales. - Eggs should not be washed.
- pessimizer 13y agoI wouldn't imagine that the learning would be tricky for someone with familiarity with machine learning in general. There are more people who are familiar with machine learning than people who work for Nest.
- smackfu 13y agoThe only "tricky" part of the learning is that you need to put a CPU in that is powerful enough to run a program.
- dclara 13y agoI was also wondering if they have embedded the Android OS in Nest. Even if there is no machine learning, handling a simple web server for UI and a Wi-Fi stack, you need a simple OS or Linux kernel. These issues are definitely resolved in Nest, but not quite in Spark. I guess they are bragging. - Eggs should not be washed.