Got a free one from PG&E. It sucks from installation to usage. I have a house built in 2004 and 5 wires (W, Y, R, C, G) cannot be more straightforward. Install takes forever. First time, it does not pop to set up. Second time, does not detect my wire. Third time, battery is out. Fourth time, it cannot login to my WiFi . Fifth time, god blesses, it is installed. Just do not know how to use. It’s so user unfriendly. Does best have a product manager or is it just coming from decisions of engineers? I called a few contractors to help. Most of them are reluctant to install nest thermostat as they caused so much install and service troubles. One of them said that he likes it before Google acquires Nest? Any Nest directors, managers, engineers here? It’s a shame to take a high TC (did you?) and shop such a trash product!
I think you don't understand the complexity of electrical wiring. Nest can't do it any more simpler than collapsing it all into 5 neatly marked wires. If that's tough for you, hire a qualified electrician.. I have Nest and my experience is that electricians love the brand. Next, login issues are probably intermittent and not reflective of the quality of the thermostat itself. It could be something on your Wifi side too. Either way, It's not an urgent issue too, you can figure it out with nest support with time.
Electrician loves it because it never works by itself and they need a couple of hundreds from you.
Hehehe.. no that's not what I meant though. In my area, they get so many thermostat install jobs (old community, lots of home sales last year and new owners are upgrading to smart home and stuff) and most are nest so it's easy money for them since they already know the wiring setup and debug steps for all the models by now
I’ve installed a handful of these with no issues. I even had to run the “C” wire from the HVAC unit to the Nest on a few older homes and didn’t run into any of the issues you mentioned. Maybe try calling Nest and asking their customer support for help. Personally, I think they are pretty straightforward and are user friendly, but not everyone will agree depending on preference.
I've installed several Nest thermostats for neighbors, friends, elderly parents. Electrical wiring can be complicated and intimidating, which is why I think people turned to me for help. But Nest makes it very simple through color matching, online tutorials, and even their customer support center. Just call them?
It has design flaws. Always needs a C wire to supplier power. Not compatible with many homes even some built within last 15years. Piece of junk
That's not a NEST flaw though. C wire is the only option with the current residential infrastructure. Nest has to work with existing home wiring setup from the 1970s when no one knew we would have smart devices which need a constant low voltage power loop to run the chipset apart from the high voltage load loop which the HVAC runs on
Any modern HVAC has a c-wire by now. How else do you expect an smart thermostat to operate?
Nest thermostats are garbage. PG&E is offering because Nest is low value & low reliability product. LOL. Get a thermostat from Honeywell. Honeywell is a very reputed company in this space. Honeywell thermostats are very reliable and user friendly.
I have been using nest for a year now. The installation was taken care by the rental company. ( i rent ) , but i had no problems with it for past one year. No login issues, no wifi drop etc.
This is my second house with Nest and I love it. I bought the first house with it already installed. I liked it so much I had one installed when I bought the second house. I hired a handyman/electrician to install both a Ring and Nest on the same day. He finished both in less than an hour and I’ve never had a problem with either.
I’ve had a Nest and Ecobee and found them to be similar in terms of installation but Ecobee crushes Nest in terms of features. Nest can’t even do averaging from multiple temperature sensors, it’s wild. Sure you can buy as many as you want, but only one sensor at a time controls the temp. Absolute trash.
My Sensi works very well
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Maybe your wife didn’t consent for it to login into her…
Typo. Don’t distract it!
Chill it’s funny, no need to get upset over a typo joke