Google Nest Learning Thermostat 3rd Generation, Stainless Steel - Smart Thermostat £159 delivered @ Amazon

Bought mine from screwfix last week for full price. Installed now. Bloody hell

Thanks @sisqoboy , I’ve been looking for one of these for a bit cheaper than RRP for a while! (edited)

Does this come with a stand and cable?

Can anyone help advise if this is suitable? Bought a previous smart stat that wasn't despite thinking I'd done the right homework.

I have two heating zones (upstairs and downstairs), the downstairs controller also controls the hot water.

Would this work for me doing hot water too? And does that mean I need to buy two?

I've had mine since circa September and can't say it's improved my energy usage/bill in anything like the sort of positive manner that people have told me it would.

Are there some good articles or recommended setups that people have found helpful?

I like the convenience of it, being able to control it while away is very useful.

There's 2 things I wish they would change though. It boggles my mind that if you want to use Opentherm, then you have to enable "True Radiant" which enables preheating and you cannot disable it without also turning off Opentherm. Being able to toggle these independently would be great.
The other thing is the smallest block of time you can set in the schedule is an hour. So combined with the preheating, you can easily end up running the boiler for almost 2 hours in the winter instead of just blasting it on for 30 mins.

Boy have these stayed at a high price for a long time

Toolstation have the same price but for the pro one

Same price at screwfix £158.99?

I don't know why I get so confused with these, so this can either be hard wired or be plugged in with: Power Cable for Nest Thermostat,AIEVE Power Supply Charger Adapter Extension Cable Accessories for Google Nest Learning Thermostat 3rd Generation,Google Home Mini,Blink Indoor Camera and More(3M): Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools

Assuming this one doesn't work with Hot Water Control

Shame it's only the stainless one. Can't get the White or Black ones in stock at a decent price

Is there a solely battery operated Nest Thermostat (using replaceable batteries)? We have a wireless thermo at the moment, so no wiring.

Does this come with the heatlink?

Can these work with smart TRVs?

I purchased one of these from screwfix a few years ago. Haven't yet been able to get it installed though, as our local authority won't allow us too sadly.😔 I believe we have got a system boiler with hot water, it has an emersion heater switch for a backup, (which we will never use!)😳 As it is far too expensive to run. We will be having a Combi boiler installed soon, and we were given the choice of having this connected to it for full use, or having the local authorities version called "Halo". Now we were also told, if we chose the G.Nest version, we wouldn't get any support if it went wrong. Basically, we would be on our own to get it fixed. So we have chosen to go with Halo instead.
I guess that would make sense really, as we are with the local authority, we let them deal with it if it went wrong.
Such a shame though, as we have everything Google in the home, and we were looking forward to getting this up and running.

Just a quick question, if anyone knows, whilst we are waiting for the new Combi boiler to be installed, could we use it with a micro usb lead and a stand, i'm guessing the heat link would still need to be installed to the boiler/programmable wall thermostat to be used judging by the install guide it does seem so.
Also, not sure which version i have, but mine is the: T3028GB I'm taking this is the third Gen version? (edited)

Terrible customer service. It's a pretty thermostat, I'll give it that, but the smart stuff it does is poorly implemented (we turned it off after a few months of constantly being annoyed at random behaviour) and the hot water boost does not work via smart speakers or api for home assistant. When we had some issues with faulty device the customer service was appalling - we spent hours on the phone to get them to replace. Wish I had gotten a hive.

Many other vendors doing the same or better for 1/3 of the price eg Salus RT510RF/TX working excellent for 3 years with my boiler...

Are there any cheaper and simpler alternatives to just turn the heading On/Off etc from your phone (edited)

These are good thats why they hold the price. No point on an old boiler though. To make the most of NEST the boiler will need to have 'Open Therm' inputs, which will maximise control. Same thing with Tado, Hive, and all the others, they work the same way with modern boilers but behave no different to a cheap room, wired snap switch otherwise. The marketing winds me up, people buy them cos there are 'smart' but they are no good if they are trying to control a 20 yr old boiler.. (edited)