The nest thermostat is a learning thermostat.
It is great in learning what you like.
Just turn it up or down.
It will catch on after a few days and create a personalized schedule for you.
That’s how the Nest thermostat saves energy.
It can save on energy that eventually it will pay for itself.
To save even more turn it to show the leaf.
Nest even turns itself down when you leave the house
You can even control it from anywhere by using your phone.
I can control it with the Nest App or our Smarthings Hub
In the App you can see how much energy you used every day, and how to use less
Before I start to go through the demo, let’s take a look behind it to see how it’s wired
up.
You can see where the different colour wires go.
I’m going to take you through the settings of the thermostat
Let’s go into the App.
I will use my laptop so you can see what I’m doing.
Right now the thermostat knows I’m home so that is why it is circled.
You can see my temperature is 23.
I will click on it to go into the settings.
I can manually change the temperature.
By the way I can do all these changes anywhere in the world.
It shows you my humidity and outside temperature.
This is where we have it set to Heat, Our Schedule, and our Energy History
If we click on the gear icon we can change all the settings we did a minute ago.
So if you prefer to, the nest learning thermostat is the best thermostat
use the nest thermostat
your laptop or tablet, you have that option to use the nest thermostat.
That is our Nest Thermostat.
It’s very easy
to use, and can save you lots of money in energy savings
Lock – Allows you to set the minimum and maximum temperatures then lock it with a Pin.
So no one can adjust it outside that range without re-entering the Pin.
For example if you set them to 20 & 24 degrees celsius and you have a little kid, they can’t
change it past those numbers.
That’s a good feature.
Eco – This tells the thermostat what to set the temperatures to while I’m away.
When I’m away I want to have it set to 20.5 degrees when heating.
And when I have it set to cooling I want it set to 26 degrees to save energy when I’m
away.
Home / Away Assist – Using the presence sensor, Nest can save energy by adjusting
the temperature when no one is at home.
It will use the temperatures you set up in Eco.
I have it set to use Eco.
Nest Sense – There are several settings under this
– Auto Schedule – Learning based on the temperatures you set and the days you set
it.
The more you use it the better it learns.
So if you change the temperature once, it knows it’s just a one of.
If you keep changing the temperature at a specific time it remembers and learns.
Time to Temperature – Nest learns and will estimate how long it will take to reach your
target temperature.
There is nothing to change here, just informational.
Early On – You can set it to start pre-heating or pre-cooling early.
I just leave it to On Schedule
Cool to dry – You can set the Nest to use additional cooling to reduce high indoor humidity.
I leave it to No.
I don’t have this problem with humidity.
It is also costly as the Air Conditioning runs a lot more.
Sun Block This is if your Nest is in a room where the sun can shine on it at certain times
of the day.
It will heat up which will cause your AC to run more.
This setting protects against that and won’t run your AC to the ground.
However I chose No as the thermostat is in the hallway.
Leaf This just tells you a Leaf appears when you are at an energy efficient temperature.
You can’t change anything here, it’s just informational
We are done with Nest Sense
Reminders Air Filters You can have nest remind you to change your filters.
You set when you last changed it.
Then Nest will remind you based on usage.
Brightness We can change the brightness of the screen to High, Medium, of Low.
I keep it to medium
Display This is what you want the display to show.
Farsight means you can choose some helpful information.
If you use Farsight you can select these.
If you don’t want to, you select these.
So when we approach the thermostat, we can change the display to the Target Temperature,
Current Temperature, Analog Clock, Digital Clock, or the Weather.
Let’s take a look to see how it looks when we set it to Digital….And how it looks when
we set it to Weather.
And if you don’t want to use Farsight, you can select Wake on Approach, or Wake on Pressing
Click Sound You can turn the click sound on or off
°F / °C – This is where you change the thermostat to Fahrenheit or Celsius.
Let’s leave it to Fahrenheit for the rest of the video
Where it’s asking where you installed your thermostat.
You can select different rooms in your house.
I have it installed in the Hallway.
Network This is where you connect it to your home network
Location You can enter your Postal Code or Zip code and it knows your location
Language I have it set to English
Equipment This tells you how to wire up your thermostat and how to connect the different
colour wires
Nest Pro If you had a professional installer set this up, they can enter their Nest Pro
ID.
The rest is information we don’t care about…
We’ll go to Thermostat And this is where can set it to Heat, Cool, or Heat-Cool (if
you have a location where it’s hot during the day and Cold at night).
Our Thermostat automatically turns to Eco mode when we are away, so we just leave it
to Heat.
Energy It tells you how much heat I used yesterday, and I can see previous days.
If I press on it, it breaks it down further.
You can see I’m at the weekly average for that day.
Schedule I have it on auto learn – so all of these are set from learning
And we are done with setting it up
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