You can then connect it to Wi-Fi and the Nest app for remote control—though if you prefer to keep your thermostat offline, you can opt to use it without internet access like a regular thermostat.
To select your preferred temperature throughout the day, you turn the metal dial or adjust the thermostat via the app. If you prefer, you can opt to create your own Schedule for the thermostat by using the Nest app, or you can simply tweak the one that the Nest thermostat creates. The Nest Learning Thermostat has a beautiful, high-quality build that feels like it will last a very long time, and the design is intuitive and easy to use.
Just turn the tactile metal outer ring, which feels substantial and glides effortlessly, left or right to adjust the temperature down or up, respectively. Pressing forward on the dial lets you make selections. The display goes dark when not in use and then lights up to show you the current setpoints and ambient temperature when you approach. A feature called Farsight turns the screen into a clock that displays the time, weather, or indoor temperature and is viewable from a distance, giving your thermostat some extra function.
This unique learning feature is the primary reason we have continued to choose a Nest model as our top smart thermostat. An HVAC monitoring feature detects and notifies you of any problem with your system, such as a furnace shutdown or extended heating or cooling times.
We had some experience with this feature in our testing of the more basic Nest Thermostat See Other smart thermostats we like. Another essential smart feature of the Nest is its Eco Mode, which uses a combination of presence sensing and geofencing to determine when the house is empty and then tells the thermostat to keep temperatures within an energy-saving range.
The Nest thermostat also saves energy by employing machine-learning artificial intelligence that measures how long it takes for your home to heat or cool based on outside temperatures and then optimizes your Schedule so that it comes on at just the right time without over- or underheating or over- or undercooling. However, an always-running fan can become a nuisance noise-wise, so we ended up turning these features off. We specifically evaluated the energy-usage reporting the Nest offers and looked at how that information could help you save money.
The Nest offers a day history in the app and online that shows you when the system was set automatically or manually and to what temperature. You also receive a monthly energy report in your inbox, but this is mostly fluff and advertising.
You can pair up to 10 sensors with one thermostat and set them on a Schedule in the Nest app that targets the rooms the sensors are in at a certain time of day.
For example, we tested three sensors and had the thermostat target the kitchen in the morning, the living room during the day, and the dining room in the evening. We really liked this feature and found that it worked well for a household with predictable routines.
Having to set precise times was a bit restrictive, though, and we found that the occupancy sensors on the Ecobee and Honeywell Home T9 sensors, which can trigger the thermostat based on your presence, were a better option in this regard. You can also control it with your voice by connecting it to Google Assistant or Alexa.
The Nest app is really good; it displays the automatically generated Schedule, and it allows you to make temperature adjustments, switch settings and climate modes, and view a day history. If you have other Nest devices, such as cameras or smoke alarms , the app consolidates them all into a single view, which is convenient. When the feature is enabled, you can have your thermostat set itself to its Away mode when you leave and Home mode when you return.
It can also tell compatible smart-home devices, such as lights, plugs, and cameras, to adjust. When we walked in the door, our Philips Hue lights turned on, our Arlo cameras turned off, and the thermostat switched to Home almost instantly.
Another feature we really like is that the Nest can automatically shut down your HVAC system when a connected Nest Protect smoke alarm detects smoke or fire.
The Nest Learning Thermostat is very expensive. In our experience, problems can crop up because the system gets confused about which temperature you want. To fix the issue, we deleted the Schedule the Nest had set and told it to relearn, which it did much more effectively the second time.
If you run into similar issues, we recommend resetting your automatic Schedule at the start of a new season to let the thermostat learn your new pattern. We also think Google should include one sensor with the Nest thermostat, as Ecobee does for its model. If you want a thermostat you can put on a wall and forget, Nest is best. But if you want deep control over every change your thermostat makes, Ecobee is the better choice. The Ecobee SmartThermostat with Voice Control is a complex piece of equipment that can do nearly everything you might want a smart thermostat to do; it also works with every major smart-home system including Apple HomeKit , and it even doubles as an Alexa smart speaker.
However, it has a more difficult learning curve, needs a C wire for power, and requires you to do a bit of tinkering to get the most out of its powerful capabilities. The Ecobee SmartThermostat is a well-designed device that looks good on a wall. It has small touchpoints, however, which are tricky for those with larger fingers to navigate precisely a 6-foot-4 member of our household has a tough time with it.
These small, square devices have sleek rounded corners and a variety of mounting options so you can easily place them around your house to monitor temperature and occupancy.
By keeping tabs on two or more areas this way, you can choose to have your system prioritize one sensor over the others or average the temperatures between them. This arrangement solves the age-old heating and cooling problem where one room is toasty and warm while another feels like a refrigerator or vice versa in the summer.
The thermostat comes with one sensor, and you can add up to The Ecobee thermostat is compatible with the same number of HVAC systems as the Nest, including those systems with humidifiers, dehumidifiers, and ventilators you can check its compatibility with your system.
It is also Energy Star rated, potentially qualifying you for a rebate. Installation is similar to that of the Nest and straightforward, although if you have a complicated HVAC system you may want to enlist the help of an expert. Including pairing four sensors, connecting to Wi-Fi, and setting up three smart-home system integrations, installation took us about an hour. If you have to wire in the power extender kit, factor in an extra two hours or hiring an electrician.
This is the only thermostat to feature a built-in smart speaker, and the audio quality and microphone responsiveness are on a par with those of the third-gen Amazon Echo Dot in quality. All the standard Echo speaker features are here, including Alexa Calling, Messaging, and Drop In, so you can use your thermostat as you would an old-school intercom system.
When we were away, however, it took too long to automatically adjust to Away Mode, and then to recognize when we returned home, even with geofencing options turned on. For example, when we arrived home while the Schedule was set to Away, it took over 30 minutes to switch, by which time we had walked over to the thermostat and changed it.
To get the greatest energy savings, you need to either manually change the mode to Home or Away status on the touchscreen or in the app or set up other smart-home integrations to do that for you more on those later. But a word of warning here: If you deviate from the Schedule or presence-sensing setup, the system goes into an indefinite hold and can cause problems such as your system running overnight when you thought it would revert to your Sleep setting this happened in our testing.
If you want to use your Ecobee thermostat with a smart-home system, this problem gets trickier: If you use Alexa, HomeKit, or another external system to change the temperature, the thermostat will hold at that setpoint until you manually change it. A big selling point of the Ecobee thermostat is that it's compatible with all those different smart-home systems.
Because Alexa is built into the device, you can use your voice to adjust the temperature, ask Alexa which equipment is running, and hear what the temperature is in different rooms.
HomeKit integration is a nice feature for Apple users. But the alerts it sent indicating that humidity was high seemed to be a useful addition. But if yours does, we advise talking with your utility company first to understand exactly how the program might impact you before enabling anything through the thermostat. The T5 is good-looking, if somewhat chunky, consisting of a sleek black box with white fonts on a black screen, like a digital alarm clock. Installation is straightforward, and the device walks you through enabling geofencing and setting the temperature you want for Wake, Home, Away, and Sleep Modes.
You use the Honeywell Home companion app to pair the thermostat with HomeKit if you want to and to connect the device to Wi-Fi to set up Schedules or enable geofencing. In our initial testing, we encountered issues with the device disconnecting from Wi-Fi, but after a reset we had no further problems.
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How can I tell the current temp with a nest? How do I set my Nest thermostat to cool? Does Nest thermostat work if WiFi goes out? How do I keep the nest at one temperature? This button does not seem to activate anything with or without Voiceover. The button immediately after "Home" provides you with the temperature to which the thermostat is set. Accessing this button places you on a screen that displays your thermostat's current temperature in the middle of the screen.
The font size, level of contrast, and brightness used to display the set temperature is impressive. On the iPhone 4, the temperature is displayed in a bold 40 point font size, and with an iPad, this increases to roughly 48 point font.
The temperature within your home is also displayed on this same screen but at a much smaller size of approximately 8 point font. It is worth noting that Zoom, the built-in screen magnification program available with iOS devices, allows easy access to this smaller number and works seamlessly within the app itself on both the iPhone and iPad. This screen also allows you to select the state of the thermostat: Heating, Cooling, or Away.
You are able to control the exact temperature of the thermostat by selecting the buttons called "Diamond Up" to increase the thermostat's temperature or "Diamond Down" to decrease the temperature.
On a couple of occasions during testing, VoiceOver seemed to get hung up on this screen and was not able to cycle through the buttons with the typical single-finger swipe. However, this is easily rectified by tapping anywhere near or around the center of the screen. The glitch of VoiceOver occasionally losing focus and the erroneous labeling of the buttons on the screen leaves room for improvement of the app itself.
For example, "Diamond Up" and "Diamond Down" would be more easily understood if they were labeled as "Increase Temperature" and "Decrease Temperature," respectively. The LEAF feature is a green leaf that appears when you have adjusted Nest to an energy saving temperature.
This "leaf" appears visually on both the app as well as the thermostat. The Leaf is fairly visible in both size and contrast, but unfortunately, it is not accessible with VoiceOver.
The company places considerable focus on the Leaf, presumably to help convince consumers that the energy savings of the Nest will eventually offset its initial cost. The whole premise behind the Nest Thermostat is for it to do a lot of the programing work for you by adjusting to your schedule and lifestyle.
For those who are inclined to have more control of the thermostat remotely, the Nest Mobile App also contains an array of additional options. Many of these controls are accessible via VoiceOver, but some are not. In order to access these options, the setting for the portrait and landscape mode needs to be unlocked on your iOS device, since these additional options only appear in landscape mode.
After doing so, three additional buttons appear: "Energy," "Schedule," and "Settings. The "Energy" button displays a screen that gives the energy used over the last 10 days. However, VoiceOver does not distinguish whether the energy consumption is derived from the heating or cooling system, which is color coded.
This would typically not be an issue unless both the heating and cooling system both run on the same day since most people will be able to determine by the temperature whether their heating system or air conditioning was active on a particular day.
The "Schedule" button displays a screen that provides the range in temperature of the thermostat settings over a 10 day period using an X-Y axis. VoiceOver successfully reads the day of the week but is unable to interpret the temperatures that are graphically displayed. The "Settings" button displays a screen with several additional options. All of the technical information listed for the Nest, including the model number, serial number, and software version, are also easily accessible within the Settings screen.
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