With Nest, the father of the iPod tackles home energy (photos)
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The Nest Learning Thermostat, built by a group led by the man who also headed up the original iPod and iPhone teams, is designed to improve home energy efficiency by giving households a heating or cooling controller that adapts to usage patterns and incorporates information gathered from the Internet. The device has a good deal of the DNA of the iPod and other Apple devices.
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It is my impression that a Heat Pump system becomes inefficient if it is shut down so that the house becomes very much too hot or too cold while we are away; I assume they work around that issue?
will it work with my android phone?
I'd love this if available for baseboard heat systems.
I'm an Android guy though, so let's not pull any of this "release an app for the 20% of smartphone owners using iPhones out there" before the 40%+ marketshare Android users out there, OK? This isn't 2007...
Oh yeah - how much for this thermostat? That's some key info, isn't it?
I'm an Android guy though, so let's not pull any of this "release an app for the 20% of smartphone owners using iPhones out there" before the 40%+ marketshare Android users out there, OK? This isn't 2007...
Oh yeah - how much for this thermostat? That's some key info, isn't it?
"The Nest thermostat will sell for $249 online and through retailers including Best Buy"
More info in the Reuters article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/25/us-nest-thermostat-idUSTRE79O3JB20111025
I see FAIL written all over it. No one is going to pay $250 to replace something they don't see a broke. It's a gadget but you'd stop playing with it after an hour. It may be able to 'sense' things but that's only if it's located in the right location. You could probably save more money in heating/cooling bills if you could automatically control when window shades were open or closed depending on the sun and outside temperature.
More info in the Reuters article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/25/us-nest-thermostat-idUSTRE79O3JB20111025
I see FAIL written all over it. No one is going to pay $250 to replace something they don't see a broke. It's a gadget but you'd stop playing with it after an hour. It may be able to 'sense' things but that's only if it's located in the right location. You could probably save more money in heating/cooling bills if you could automatically control when window shades were open or closed depending on the sun and outside temperature.
A thermostat my folks can understand the moment its touched. The missing link in Home Automation.
Put the thermostat in cyberspace and be ready for hackers to freeze your house while on vacation. Seriously is such automation just another example of technology for the sake of technology? Even automobiles are getting so smart that some features seem downright more distracting than convenient.
I have a high-end Honeywell touch-screen programmable thermostat that cost under $100. It works very well, to the point that probably 90% of the times I touch it are when we're leaving for a trip and I want to set a temporary hold (and unless we come back early, it'll be back to the regular temp on the day we return.)
Does the iThermostat quality of the Nest really add $150 in value?
Does the iThermostat quality of the Nest really add $150 in value?
I think this thing is great, and I can't wait for it to come out. I would like to see a primary and a secondary heat source capability though, Heat Pump/Electric strip or Pellet stove/whatever, hopefully it does. I have a Honeywell now that my wife is truly afraid of, with the Internet option I can go in from where ever and warm her up.
@saavik Your wife is afraid of a programmable thermostat? Well, I guess that's better than clowns.
@dkboyd
Don't say that out loud Thermostat and bridges are hard enough to work around.
Don't say that out loud Thermostat and bridges are hard enough to work around.
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