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Great response from Nest. But honestly - their algorithmic "trust us, the device knows what its doing" approach has always made me uncomfortable. The thermostat
by techwatching 13y ago
Great response from Nest. But honestly - their algorithmic "trust us, the device knows what its doing" approach has always made me uncomfortable. The thermostat for instance - I don't want my thermostat to learn my habits and predict what temperature I want, etc. I just want to tell it what temperature the house should be and when, and leave it the hell alone.
Same thing with the smoke detector. False positive? Push the button. Its the rational ux given the criticality of failure modes involved.
- jsumrall 13y agoI was under the impression that the Nest did work the way you would like— you tell it a temperature and thats it. The only "learning" involved was noticing you were gone and letting the temperature change a bit more, and when you come home it goes back to what you set. (There's also some bit about reducing the temperature a bit during peak load). As with a smoke detector, I would never expect it to disable its smoke detecting function unless I pressed some button.