Nest started out great for me as an early adopter.
The recent iterations are just frustrating. The apps are laggy. It’s always prompting me to join an energy savings program no matter how many times I say no. We had to disable the home/away detection because it went from working well to thinking we were away 5 times per day.
Nest stands as my example of a product that went from great to terrible through complete mismanagement and customer neglect.
Yep. I have an Ecobee currently and have had a Nest previously. Am totally perplexed why people like these things. Just opened the Ecobee app and literally at the top is an ad saying "The Holiday sale is here. Shop now." Irritates me to no end.
the worst is that it doesn’t show up immediately, but after a second and it’s location is where I just went to tap to enter my thermostat, forcing me to exit back. I now try and just use the app via Apple Home for a better experience.
My Nest works great other than the app trying me to get to change my account to Google, which I just close out of every-time. Basic functional UI and works as billed. The unit itself has a nice sturdy feel to it with a very intuitive wheel-and-click interface. It's the only smarthome thing I have besides Hue lightbulbs
Aurornis|2 months ago
The recent iterations are just frustrating. The apps are laggy. It’s always prompting me to join an energy savings program no matter how many times I say no. We had to disable the home/away detection because it went from working well to thinking we were away 5 times per day.
Nest stands as my example of a product that went from great to terrible through complete mismanagement and customer neglect.
foogazi|2 months ago
It will still go energy saving but now I don’t care
Although it makes sense not to pull more from the grid during high usage times
Xcelerate|2 months ago
nickthegreek|2 months ago
mattacular|2 months ago