Before it got into the business of making security cameras like the Nest Cam IQ and Nest Cam Outdoor, the smart home company was first and foremost about one thing: heating.
The Nest Thermostat was the product that started it all, and it continues to be a very competitive and smartly designed thermostat, even if some of its functionality lags behind the competition in 2017.
While it’s perfectly possible to control it with your phone, the Nest thermostat is clever enough that you’ll soon stop bothering. Not only does it remember the various temperature settings you put it to throughout the day, using its built in motion sensor and GPS functionality of its app it will alter its program based on your schedule.
In other words, if you decide to head out for the evening rather than stay in, the thermostat is clever enough to not waste energy heating an empty house.
It’s not the perfect system, the lack of zonal controls means that you’ll often end up heating empty rooms, but our year of use saved us just over 13.5% on our heating bill. There are a couple of …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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