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Experiences of it?
Is it a worthwhile purchase?
Can you connect more than 2 devices ie 2 phones?
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As in Smoke alarm NEST?
Yes, we have 4 in the house. They upload to a server so you connect to that with as many devices as you like.
As in thermostat
get smoke alarms foc from work
Yup
love it, it's a great bit of kit.
Not convinced its going to save us money but we have much more control than we used to have.
Can be controlled via multiple devices with no problems
Yes.
Can't see any money saving benefits now that Mrs North has trained the hearing to come on al day at the weekend….
I've got multiple devices linked to it - (iPhones, iPad and Kindle Fire.)
Easy to use. Only complaint is that, given its cost, it's a bit too fit and forget….
Got one, love it.
Had to turn off the 'learning feature' as a simple on-off request for more heat on the odd weekday (for example) seemed to result in more heat every weekday. I was constantly setting the schedule back to what I wanted as background heat.
Apparently we used 23hrs less heating in January than we did in December (which makes sense being at home over Christmas).
Auto Away works well, and think it works on as many devices you want to install the app on.
We fitted the Nest in the Autumn, having no stat at all before (just TRV's and a timer) and also got a load of loft insulation fitted, energy usage has dropped through the floor. (probably would have dropped with any programmable stat)
With the stove on in the evening, the boiler rarely fires for more than 90 minutes a day. Our Direct Debit is getting revised down every month, at the last bill we are predicted to spend £720 on gas and elec over the next 12 months, and £135 (2 builder bags) of firewood per winter.
Anyone else use?
I have a Tado which is similar but perhaps slightly smarter. Worth a look.
Nest good, Honeywell Evohome better.
+1 for Tado - very simple to use day to day - you don't need to fiddle with anything at all.
how do you find out if the nest works with your boiler? I just bought a house and would be keen to install it if it's compatible. got a stove too so i'm hoping i can use them in collaboration to keep bills down...
If you can connect a thermostat to your boiler, you can connect nest.
We bought ours a month ago - we looked at hive and tado too. We felt that tado probably would be a bit brittle (ah shit left phone at home etc), and also the location based stuff eats your phone battery. Hive needed 3 gadgets wired up, and wasn't quite as slick or mature.
One month in, and I have to say that it's great. The house now seems to be an even temp, and we were away visiting people this weekend so turned the heating off entirely and fired it up when we started to head home - excellent!
In my experience the Tado app has had no noticeable impact on battery life at all and if you leave your phone at home you can logon to the web app and override it from there. Thumbs up from me. I think either is a nice gadget to have and the Nest certainly takes it on the aesthetics front.
The nest app now integrates with Google Now, so you can just talk to the phone to turn up the temp (not that its difficult using the app but if you are on your way home on the bike wearing gloves, its handy)
I think linking it to Google also turns on some sort of Geo location logging which Nest is missing (i.e it doesn't know when you are on your way home (unless you've bought a 'works with nest' £50,000 Mercedes!))
So although I've not checked, it should now know when I'm heading home and start preheating, rather than sensing me walk in the front door and turning on.
The nest app now integrates with Google Now, so you can just talk to the phone to turn up the temp (not that its difficult using the app but if you are on your way home on the bike wearing gloves, its handy)
That's all very clever and everything, but completely not needed - get a Tado and it keeps an eye open for you coming home and lowers the heating when you are out raising it for your return [b][u]automatically[/u][/b].
unless you've bought a 'works with nest' £50,000 Mercedes!))
or a Tado ( which also works if you are travelling by foot, goat or gyrocopter launched from a hollowed out volcano )