Hey, so is the nest thermostat E the thermostat to bring those that are on the fence of smart things over?
I'm not really sure if that's gonna be the tipping point or not
But let's look and see what's in the box in this video and see if it's worth getting
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And yes as you can see the postman decided to sit on the box, so
Hopefully everything is alright inside
So let's take a look and see what's inside the nest thermostat II from nest it's their newest
thermostat it's kind of the
economical version
It's been kind of dumbed down a little bit not too much
But there are some features that aren't in this that are in the normal flagship nest so as we open it up
It looks actually to be alright
Surprisingly, but as we look at the actual thermostat itself
It's about the same size a little bit bigger than the original nest thermostat
unfortunately this is
Plastic, that's right no
Nice shiny metals here
It is a ceramic plastic feel
but it is plastic it has a glossed like frosted glass in the front that will display the
temperature
as we go in deeper of course the instruction manual as
Always with every single one that tells you exactly what you need to know on how to set it up as well as their
Amazing little mounting bracket now
I really enjoy this because it makes it so much easier to
Set up to make sure it's level because it even has a level
included on top of
The mount so you just put your wires through here connect to the sides and easy
Connection there you go
So as we look into what all is?
required for this we the biggest thing that I had an issue with is I
Live in Virginia, and so we don't really get a lot of snow
But we do get enough to where you need the heat, so we have heat pumps here
now the problem is these heat we'll work with the thermostat II
But the problem is is a lot of us have heat strips for emergency issues
And that sadly is not supported by this thermostat II I don't know why you would
shorten or
make a
thermostat be less compatible
Just because it's cheaper. I was really really disappointed with that
So please my biggest thing out of this whole thing if you don't remember anything if you don't listen to anything
remember this
Check your compatibility of your thermostat to make sure it works
with the nest thermostat because it's just
Very limited on what it's able to support
So just as the other nest you can dial on the outside only has one single plug in the back
It comes with the little setup
QR code
Which is nice if you don't have your instructions anymore the thing that I think is really awesome about this is
For the mount like I was saying it comes with the little level and as we see here it only has the three hookups
And that's where you'll run into your compatibility issues is if you have more than three wires to hook up
Some of them will go on the same spot, which is great
But unfortunately some of them need extra places and this will not allow you to do it on the right. You'll see the
Faceplate that kind of covers up if you have a really big
Old thermostat, and you kind of need to cover that entire
Face where it used to sit and it makes it look really nice honestly
I think this is a really nice looking a lot of people didn't like the fact that it looks cheap E
And plastic and I mean to be honest it is plastic
It does feel GP, but your thermostat that you have on the wall right now is
plastic as well, so
to
Compare it with what I have now. I have to say this is more durable feeling not necessarily
cheap II just
Cheaper than the original nest isn't and that's what I think people are really comparing it to is that it's not as
solid as the original nest and so I was very surprised that the
Packaging held up to who knows what the postman did
But that's one nice thing is you know that it's not something. That's easily crushed so I
Would I recommend the nest thermostat II I'd love to be able to say yes
And I'd love to be able to say no when were the other
Unfortunately I could not test it and so we just wanted to show you what comes in the box?
Sadly and because we couldn't test it with our system so make sure
Again out of everything make sure it is compatible with
Your current system down in the description below. I'll put a link there. That'll show you
Exactly how to go through and see if your system is compatible again. Thanks for watching
My name is Josh. Gross with gross tech. God bless, and I hope you have a great week
Lord willing we'll see you next week, bye.