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Nest - The learning Thermostat. Released today and has free installation worth £70 until 8th April £179 @ B & Q
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I have been waiting for this to be released for ages in the UK, and it's finally here. Nest are offering free professional installation worth £70 until 8th April 2014.
This is a "Smart" thermostat which will learn your routine and adjust the heating accordingly. It can also be controlled by most mobile devices. It is supposed to save money on your heating costs, so that's what I told the missus to get permission to buy one I'm sure it will pay for itself eventually.
This is a "Smart" thermostat which will learn your routine and adjust the heating accordingly. It can also be controlled by most mobile devices. It is supposed to save money on your heating costs, so that's what I told the missus to get permission to buy one I'm sure it will pay for itself eventually.
Do I spent £180 on a thermostat with a pretty display that I can control over the internet ......or do i spend £180 on my ever rising gas bill.
Its a cool idea, but generally the deal is cold, especially if that is rrp.
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Urmmmm, hell yes!
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+ the nest looks great... ive just ordered mine.
The prices are too high IMO just yet, if they did a package of stat and 2 smoke alarms for say £199 or £250 I would jump on it.
And don't building reqs now require British houses to have two zones each controlled with thermostats? I think you can do a much better job with cheaper programmable thermostats and a little bit of effort.
Do you have a single thermostat on the wall say in your hallway? That is what this is supposed to replace, and not each thermostat valve on every radiator. I have a program thingy on the boiler then a thermostat in the hall. Then I change the valves on the rads if I don't need certain rooms heating.
The RRP with installation is £249, so this is an offer until 8th April SAVING £70
I think youd be better off having thermostatic valves fitted to each radiator.
Also what a great database it will be for burglars if/when it gets hacked - they will have great access to when you are normally in or out of the house.
Not sure I am bothered by being able to set the temperature while I am on a beach the other side of the world. Thanks but no thanks for me.
Also if they are installing it and connecting to your boiler how does that affect any existing boiler agreements you may have for servicing etc.
Can anyone tell me whether you could use this in conjunction with the remote controlled thermostats in this post?
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Yes for £179 :P
tin foil hat much!
Well yes the same way any thermostatic radiator valve could work with the system. But the systems wouldn't "talk" to each other.
Watch Richard and Tony showing how Nest is installed in Virgin Planes Pretend you watched this yesterday!
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No I don't. The rads in the newer built parts of the house have individual thermostats and there is a seperate sensor for bathroom floor tiles but that's it . As mentioned by someone else, I can't really see how this would be much use in less you live in a studio flat. Don't get me wrong, I like gadgets and home automation stuff and look for any excuse to try something new but I can't really see any use for one of these.
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I think it's the learning aspect that is the USP - it understands what time of day/night you raise or lower the temps and then learns when you like the house warmer/cooler.
So you just adjust the stat temp and it then learns from that. It would be ideal for us as we don't have a stat now and just end up leaving the heating on for hours on end over winter.
Cold from me - mines programmable time/temp setting without the remote access and learning but you've already set your timeclock to your life style anyway.
Remote access good if your sat on a bus but no good if your a driver (3points) -
I agree, and any "sophisticated algorithm" that offers to automate my life will probably fail miserably
Also surely, in reality, the remote feature is just a gimmick for people so they can announce in the pub "Oh I must check if I've left the heating on!" pull out their smartphones and show off.
Also there are no internal walls between my living room, dining room and hallway, so I reckon this might save me a bit of money.
people more respected than me are saying similar things
Forbes report on Nest and google
CNN Nest report
FT Nest data concerns
just because you are happy to sign your details away to an online company please don't accuse others of paranoia if they don't agree with something
You set your timeclock to your lifestyle, but heating needs change throughout the year - ours is still on winter setting because I haven't been arsed to crawl around on the utility room floor yet to set the god awful timer on our boiler so it keeps coming on throughout the day and it's then too hot everywhere.
I assume this will learn throughout the year so will turn things down now, then off over summer etc
So it's good in that situation.
Forbes, CNN and FT are news organisations - are they respected?
Google can have my info, if it means they target me with things I actually like then so be it, it will be nice to see adverts for my interests rather than rubbish.
lol - i didnt say they were respected, i said more respected than me. In that respect they have wider readership and the people writing there generally have some knowledge about these things. Unlike some of the people who post here!
and now who is being paranoid saying that news organizations can't be respected!
Most UK timers, boilers, thermostats are mains voltage switching.
Will be interesting to see how this connects?
It uses a item they have called a heat link - which is a box that sits between the boiler and the thermostat - this probably adjust the power accordingly.
These prog stats are normally battery powered. not sure about the nest will read more tonight.
another point is location of your stat if it's in your room and it gets warm it turns the heating off, but young jonny on his gamebox in the bedroom is freezing so you have to turn the stat up to warm him up and your room works on the rad valves then. Hows the nest understand this.