Leaving the Nest

Re:Leaving the Nest by zippergz on Friday June 03, 2016 @04:54PM (#11833209)

What changes are you hoping for in the experience? I think my Nest thermostats work great, and frankly I'd rather that they not muck with that in the name of "improvement." It's basically an appliance, and part of my house, and regular software changes would be a real annoyance (other than fixing bugs, of course). I'd rather they spend their energy on creating new products than on changing the already (IMHO) solid experience on the existing ones.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by rconti on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:35PM (#11833436)

Stop dropping off the network randomly. They blame it on "crappy wifi vendors" not supporting 802.11 power save mode properly but I have it on word from support that Meraki is fully 802.11 compliant.

Would be nice to have optional different displays too. Seems like a silly thing, I know, but it would be nice if I could just setup the 'normal' display to show outside temp without having to go to the menu.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by kevan on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:16PM (#11833331)

The biggest one for me: It regularly takes 10+ seconds for the app to load and connect to the thermostat. When it's faster for me to get up and walk to the thermostat than to use the app from another room that's an issue.

Another issue I have is that I can only schedule temps. Auto-away seems to recognize in about an hour that I've left for work, but Away state never shows on the schedule. I leave for work at the same time very morning, I'd like the thermostat to tell me when it thinks I've left so I can adjust it to the correct time and not heat/cool the house for an hour before it realizes I'm gone.

These are minor things, but I paid literally 10x as much as a regular programmable thermostat, I expect a premium experience.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by pfarnsworth on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:12PM (#11833906)

A single app is really shitty. I would rather have an app for the cam and an app for the thermostat.

As I mentioned above, I want better and longer access to data so that I can do real comparisons like year over year data. Not just 10 days ago which is really stupid.

And how about a more stable app as well that doesn't crash?

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Re:Leaving the Nest by e28eta on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:26PM (#11834624)

Apple HomeKit support. I think it's absurd the Nest doesn't natively support it.

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