We need to replace our thermostat. Does anyone here have the Nest?
Do you like it?
Our schedules are irregular and our current programable thermostat has been useless.
We ended up putting it on “hold” rather than an actual program.
The same thing happened in my office as we did not have regular hours.
Thanks!
And if you like whatever you have–why and what is it?
Tagging @jym626 so she can respond. She has some knowledge!
Happy to help!! I will pm you. Thanks, @MomofWildChild
We have one. I think I have a love/hate relationship with it. It’s great that we can turn it on remotely (when we were traveling for 2 weeks and were on our way back from the airport we were able to heat up our very cold house). However it seems to “learn” things that I don’t want it to learn and kind of has a mind of its own. Still, we like it better than the regular one we had before.
Thanks MamaBear16. We now have a Nest controlling our house. H put it in this afternoon.
Needless to say, he is having a lot of fun. He keeps asking me all of these questions about
programming that I do not care about even a smidgen. I smile and nod.
I do have question–how long or how far ahead do you need to tell the Nest to warm up
the house? For example, the temp has been on 62 for two weeks. You are returning home and you
want it to be 72 when you walk in. The outside temp is 35.
When you tell it to turn up the temp it usually tells you how long it thinks it will take. I’m pretty sure it will vary house to house, furnace to furnace, etc. But my guess would be (for our house) that it would somewhere between 1/2 hour to an hour. We don’t keep ours that hot, but then again it’s rarely 35 where we live. I hope you like it! 
I believe it learns all this stuff, so it can calculate how long it will take to warm up the house. And mama bear you can manually change whatever you want. It learns when you walk by, but y ou can program it to do other things. It also knows when you are home so will not go into “away” mode if you dont walk by it for a while
I still can’t figure out our Nest. Haven’t spent much time trying, though. It does seem to do what it wants to do without any direction from anybody. If you just want a simple, straightforward thermostat, the Nest is probably not a good idea.
https://nest.com/support/article/A-step-by-step-guide-to-setup-on-the-Nest-Learning-ThermostatIts remarkably easy to use. But if you want help- just call customer service and they will answer any question you have.and their customer service reps are located in the US. https://nest.com/support/contact-us/
One thing I did learn-- is that when I installed the app on my phone and on my ipad, the thermostats got confused as they didnt know if I was home or not. Customer service folks (very nice, patient and helpful) explained what i needed to to to set up the account so it wouldnt confuse the thermostats, but I decided just to uninstall it from my ipad and keep the app only on my phone. THat way they know when i (my phone) is home and when it isn’t
If you tell the thermostat you are heading home, you tell it what temp you want and when it hits tht temp it shuts off. Get the smoke detector too. They talk to each other. If the smoke detector detects carbon monoxide it will tell your thermostat to turn off the furnace. Great stuff!
I have a client who has a nest thermostat with smoke detector. It sent her a text message at work one day that it detected smoke. She rushed home and sure enough her house was on fire. Some damage but they were able to put it out before the house was destroyed - would have been gone without that text. I was amazed. I’m so behind the times!
Wow, I need to make the effort to set this up.
OK–It has only been in about 7 hours. The house feels so much more evenly warm. Had to turn it down as 72 was too warm. We are in the middle of an arctic storm–super high winds and 26 degrees out. Last time we has this was about 3-4 years ago when I took H to the hospital at midnight for an emergency gall bladder operation.
But I digress. The remote for the fireplace has always read one degree less then our old thermostat which was in a hall not far away and where the Nest lives. Tonight both read the same. I have no idea how this can be but sure gives me hope.
I have been unhappy with our furnace /AC for the last 10 years. What if turns out it was just that crappy programmable thermostat!
You can also control your Nest from an Amazon Echo. It’s all pretty slick technology.
And the Google version of the amazon echo also works with the nest products (thermostat, nest protect smoke detector and nestcam indoor and outdoor cameras). Other products are in the works.
And LOTS of products work with nest products https://workswith.nest.com/products
Many utilities offer rebates for Nest and similar thermostats. I would recommend that anyone that has bought one recently or is considering buying one to check for rebates.
I have two Ecobee3’s. It has remote sensors you can place into different rooms when your thermostat is not in the right place to detect movement or when one room might get too hot or too cold compared to the room with the thermostat. It has all the remote access features as well. It also has a feature where you can set the fan to run a certain number of minutes per hour. I compared to Nest and Ecobee was the winner.
Oh I realize I can override it. I do it all the time. Sometimes I feel like the two of us are fighting for control over the temp in the house. 
We’ve had ours for several years.