- Hey, guys. What's going on?
This is Seth from the REtipster blog.
In this video, I wanna talk to you about this new
learning thermostat that I just installed in my house
called the Nest Thermostat E.
Stick around.
Okay, so a couple weeks ago I installed this thing
in my house.
This is called the Nest Learning Thermostat,
or the Nest Thermostat E,
and Nest is a company, you've probably heard of them before.
It's actually been around for a number of years
and they had a number of different iterations
of this thermostat.
Currently, there's two different versions on the market.
There's Nest third generation and then there's also this one
which was just released like about a month or so ago.
This is actually a cheaper version of their
learning thermostat.
Currently, it's coming in about a $169.
A lot of their earlier renditions of this thermostat
were designed to be like very flashy and bright.
It's almost a work of art hanging on your wall.
The idea with this one, I think, was to make it more
sort of subdued and kind of blend in your wall
so you almost don't even really notice it unless
you need it.
So it's sort of just a different design philosophy
that went into this one.
And the cool thing about this is that there's a lot of
efficiencies and just thoughtfully designed functionality
that really allows you to not only save energy but
just have a lot more convenience in the way that you
adjust the temperature and just live in your house.
Similar to whole line of Nest products,
this thermostat comes in a really nice, clean,
good looking package.
It was super easy to install.
Something I really appreciated was how Nest actually
has that really helpful detail tutorial video
that you can watch and follow along with
as you're installing it.
I thought it was actually really cool to see a company
that finally offers this kind of instructions
rather than just sticking you with a really confusing
paper manual and saying good-luck.
One nice thing about this thermostat is that
unlike a lot of the programmable thermostats out there,
it does not require any batteries.
Even though it's got this really nice lit up display,
it does not require any kind of external power source.
It's just power from the wires in the wall.
So it was really nice that I could just cut that
little annoying piece out of the equation with
this new thermostat.
This particular thermostat is really meant to be paired
with a wifi signal and then used with the Nest app
on your phone.
The nice thing is you actually don't need to do this.
So say if you were to put this in a rental property,
you don't necessarily have to mess with your
tenant's wifi signal,
and they don't need to have the app on their phone
in order to use it.
But, without those things, it'll just lose a few of the
features that it has to offer.
But if you do have those things integrated,
there's a lot more you can do with this thermostat.
Because this thing has the ability to be paired
with a Nest app on your phone,
your phone can track your location.
Another result of this, the thermostat can turn down
the heating and cooling when you're not at home.
So it's not continually using up resources when
nobody's there to even feel the difference.
So say for to go and vacation for the weekend
or something like that,
this thing will know that you're not at home.
And when you're not at home, it can just turn itself down.
And then when you start nearing home again,
it'll turn itself back on so that the house is at the
right temperature by the time you get home.
One of the ways this thermostat saves energy is
you can set certain parameters for
how hot you want the temperature to be
and how cool you want the temperature to be
when you're not around.
So you basically establish this range of acceptable
temperature so that your heating and cooling units
don't have to turn on until the temperature falls outside
of those parameters.
And obviously, the bigger you can make those,
the more money you're gonna save on heating and cooling cost
because your utilities won't be used.
Another nice thing about the Nest app is that you can
monitor and even control the temperature of your house
from anywhere.
This thermostat can even show you what the temperature is
outside as well just based on wherever your location is
and what the weather is like in that area.
Something else that makes this thermostat special is that
it has this automatic learning system where it will start to
learn what temperatures you like at what times of the day.
Eventually, it'll start to automatically change
the temperature based on what it has learned about
your preferences.
Because this thermostat has the capability of learning
your habits and turning on and off based on the time of
the day and when you are or not around,
this thing is bound to save you money and utility cost
because pretty much every other dumb or programmable
thermostat simply can't predict your behavior
and turn themselves up and down or on and off
on the fly like this.
Another thing that I really appreciate about this thermostat
is the fact that you don't have to pay for any
ongoing subscription cost like you do with some of the other
products from Nest like the Nest cam.
Once this thermostat is bought and paid for, that's it.
You don't have to keep paying for anything.
It'll just automatically do the work and figure out
what it needs to do to continue to keep your house
at the right temperature.
So there you go.
That's my overview of the Nest Thermostat.
Just to be clear, this is not a paid promotion or
sponsor video or anything like that.
They're not paying me to do this.
I just thought it was kind of a cool tool
to have in your house and potentially a rental property
so I wanted to put this together and let you know about it
in case it might be useful to you.
If you're interested in picking up your own Nest,
I'm gonna have couple links in the description below
linking to the Nest website and also a section on
their website where you can find if you can get any rebates
in your area for this kinda thing.
Even if you can't, I think theoretically, this thing will
actually pay for itself within the first year or two.
So I mean, even you don't get a discount on it,
it's still not a bad thing just long term to have
in your house because if you can save energy
and experience no loss of comfort,
why not do that?
So anyway, I'll have a couple links below.
Feel free to check it out if you're interested.
And yeah, thanks again for watching.
And I'll talk to you later. See ya.