Nest Deals & Offers

Thanks

Normaly £5 for 2pack (angel)

£4.99

How much do these usually cost ?

Thanks for the tip OP. Ordered mine - being delivered Monday.

Collected this morning and installed this afternoon (y) 🏼

Glad to see others benefiting, mine just got delivered 😁

Thanks. Smoke alarm not in stock now but have taken the order

Worked for me too but the guy on the phone wasn’t convinced and had to check with colleagues. Thanks OP!

That's what they told me at the till

Yes, but the price reduction doesn't constitute an offer as such, or so they said. Did they try to put it through the till?

Just went into store and the £35 off is "not to be used in conjunction with any other offer".

No worries, thanks for the reply.

Didn't check, sorry. There may be both options available.

You want me to elaborate the fact that I prefer the battery version? Why? It's not rocket science and it's my opinion. What needs to be elaborated? If you must. It's simply that a battery powered one can be placed anywhere. You are not restricted to somewhere with a 240v supply.

Well, trying to work out how to spell the word what for starters! ;)

Please elaborate your comment.

What word is confusing you?

Nest Protect devices "talk" to each other using a mixture of Bluetooth LE and wireless. The wired versus battery choice is purely about how the unit gets its power and has no bearing on how the units communicate with each other. You can easily mix wired and wireless variants with no issues at all. I have four in our house - they are expensive but I live in a tech house, like new tech and they are also practical and potentially life saving devices (yes a £20 alternative would also potentially save your life but how dull are they?! (excited)) When paired with the app, you get notifications of the alarms going off which is useful if you were ever out and there was an alert - you can also start a test from the app and when enabled, it can act as a geofence for other Nest products too (like the thermostat). The lights are also very useful - the white light turns on if you approach a unit in darkness and provides enough light to safely pass - e.g. we have one at the bottom of the stairs and one at the top (outside the bedrooms) and i can get up stairs and into my bedroom without turning the lights on just with the lights the Protect's provide. You also have the peace of mind that the units test themselves daily and give you the green light at night to show all is well. The battery variants need six lithium AA-sized batteries which aren't cheap but I've had my protects for about 3 years now and only changed the batteries once so they last. You can eek more life out of the batteries by disabling some of the features (like the lighting) but that takes away one of the benefits of having them installed IMO. Nest is also integrated into a wide range of home automation platforms too, mine is hooked into my Domoticz platform where I can trigger events based on an alarm (for example turning on all the Philips Hue lights in the house or shutting off the boiler if there was a CO alarm).

Anyone need a Merry Hill reservation?

Also got a reservation at Erdington, which is closer

Copy :p When you collecting yours?

Clacton has them. Day trip to the seaside!

Not surprised that they’re cheap. Who thinks of going to an electrical store for cooking utensils :/ Having said that, I can see the kitchen connection. Curry’s are cooked with spatulas and stuff :D hot from me (y)

I've been quite happy with mine. Familiar face alerts don't always register the person, but I'd say it has a 70% hit rate. I'm going to buy the subscription as I also use it as a 24/7 camera due to some burglaries recently in my area. It ended at lunchtime today and I forgot to renew it in time, so I've probably lost all my familiar faces annoyingly. I'm not too bothered about the video history being lost, but oh well!

Free Nest Aware trial ended now for me and didn’t really get the familiar face notification only once when I tested it on the google home mini. Not even the postman was announced, he had put the letters in the letter box and left. seems it’s just as bad as the Ring version 1. Will keep it as the video live view is better and I can see it on the Echo Show. I’ll wait and see if the notifications are better before subscribing, Nest community forum very vociferous about the delay and Nest don’t seem to acknowledge this or say they are going to do something about it.

Paid for installation, guy had to drill through the wall so yeah sometimes easier to let an expert do it, especially if it's only 50% yours...

Mine is working great so far. Familiar face doesn't always work, but it's not a massive deal for me. Notifications come through quickly. Only thing I haven't figured out is how does it prioritise between sending to my phone and also my wife's phone?

Did you know you can merge duplicates? Just hold down on a face then select all the ones you want to merge. There's a merge arrow top right

Understood. Thanks!

Yeah you replace the battery when they die. The expiry date on the detector refers to the life of the component which detects carbon monoxide - this can’t be replaced

To confirm. You can still replace the batteries in these. Right? They don't just die after 8 years?

I ordered 2 more from this company. Just so everyone is aware both of the ones which I received expire in 2026 - still a great price for 8 years on them

Expensive but worth it for peace of mind especially if you are away from the house a lot

Yes and it worked for me. £15 not bad. I really wouldn't pay any extra

tat truck normally stops about 5 minutes walk from my house so i just walk there

Well..... you don’t HAVE to. If you’re in a situation where you don’t make a saving you can just avoid ordering.....

Is the £5 off the first Treasure Truck purchase deal still on? I can't find it anywhere...

So I have to go find parking somewhere and get stuff off the back of a truck? Cost of my fuel probably outweighs aby saving so I think i will pass and wait for JJ to have a sale. Another Amazon idea - like Pantry - that will probably flop.

Yes its just gone up :(

Looks like its gone up by £20 now to £179.99. Anyone else seeing that?

Ok, that's great, thanks for the info. Hopefully they'll add some of their own TRV hardware and upgrade the software in the future so its all controlled from Nest and not flakey 3rd party hardware/ setups.

The Nest Thermostat controls the boiler functions rather than the entire heating system. There are many 3rd party smart valves that are controlled via an app but you would need to control these separate from the nest, either via the app or a voice controlled system such as the echo or google home. Here is an example https://www.amazon.co.uk/Energenie-MIHO029-Heating-Bundle-Pack/dp/B00V52HKQE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1534926936&sr=8-2&keywords=radiator+valve+works+with+alexa

Good price for this.

Me keeping my old wired thermostat on full blast is basically the same as not having one because it will never reach the full temp. There is a white box that will replace your segment timer. This box has one button on it which is a override on/off switch. The box connects to this nest thermostat and yes, basically it acts as an off switch when the heating reaches the desired temperature. It is fully programmable for on and off times for both heating and hot water. The nest guys on Facebook are fairly responsive. I had a few teething problems as the default settings work out how long it takes to get your home up to the desired, this turns your heating on before the set time so it's hot for the set time. I didn't like that so I turned that off... also if you haven't heated the hot water for over 2 hours straight in a 48 period, it pops it on for 2 hours to kill any bacteria which I turned off too.

Thanks for the reply but I don't really understand. I don't have a thermostat at all, and all the instructions I can find online reference essentially connecting into your existing thermostat in order to connect the nest. However I don't have one so I'm not sure what I would be connecting to? Based on what you're saying, thermostat is basically a clever on/off switch with some computational shenanigans going on inside. My existing segment timer is the same thing but without the smart bit. On that basis I assume the Nest somehow connects into my segment timer wiring and then adds the thermostat functionality to my system singlehandedly?

Yes. I kept my thermostat wired and just keep it on full... this cuts the heating off when it reaches the desired temp. By keeping the wired stat on full, it just acts as it's not there if that makes sense.

Folks - I managed to pick one of these up recently. My hot press currently only has a segment timer with "On/Off/Clock" settings. There is no thermostat in my house at the moment. Is this even compatible with my system? I can't seem to find an answer to this simple question anywhere - I believe (hope?) the answer is yes, it's compatible! @PAULTRD @chrisom

In my case a Worcester Bosch CDI Combi , I needed to connect 3 wires , live , neutral , & switched live from the boiler to the nest heat link . Then added a looped wire in the heat link . So my example of it being "like " wiring a plug is because of the number of connections-3 , plus my ability to read both my boiler manual & the nest manual to know where the connections go . I found it straightforward & simple

This Vs tado Vs hive.. what's the lowdown guys?

I'd rather wait, pay less and have it installed and get a full refund if it can't be installed for any reason

You may well be right, but many wouldnt even want to attempt something like this

If you have a combi with a wireless thermostat fitting the Nest yourself is extremely easy. No need to pay anyone.

£5er cheaper direct... oops.

People who have huge credit card debts and financial agreements all over the place are the last people to get a mortgage, and when they do they get the worst rates. Today’s society want expensive things they can’t afford NOW. That’s how all these money lending sites with huge interest rates do well. I agree credit is good on expensive items, but paying up front when you can afford it does no harm either.

Agreed credit when you can afford is healthy and it builds a credit rating which gets you things like a lower mortgage and better finance on a car. People like him who "save" for everything are the people who have the insanely high rate mortgages and then blame the rest of society as they have always kept to within what they believe are society's rules. So I hate it when people come on threads like this just to throw their opinions that people should just save. How about you just goto your cave and over pay for your house and cave with your backwater ideals? As unless you can save for your entire house you too need credit.

They constantly try to tempt me with these deals, first it was Samsung vr kit then the 360 camera I find it's all a bit desperate on EE's part

EE naaaaah never again

Most sensible people leverage credit when it’s appropriate, for instance when something they can afford and would like is available at 0% credit

Thanks buddy

The box does have a link that you can then find local installrrs. Mine cost £80 to install.

Hi there. Can anyone comment on getting it installed? Please.

Gen 2 controls hot water as well- mine has been running since 2016 and reduced my gas bill by £250 a year since install (same usage last 2 years roughly) versus 2014-16.

I had the 1st gen and just installed the 3rd gen in my new home. Very little difference. I needed the 3rd gen as it controls hot water for a conventional system. I think 1 and 2 only do combi boilers... Great product and this is a good price.