r/Nest

Is nest app down for anyone else?

Edit: Working as 7:06 AM (WA)

I got some wires on here that aren’t on my new nest

Been using an ultra basic thermostat for a few months and I got an second monitor to make sure it was accurate. It was accurate to the degree.

Fast-forward today and I installed a Google nest so I could do scheduling and see usage and notice that my AC was turning on much more than usual. Looked at my external monitor and it’s 4° off.

What’s happening here?

Hello

Changed my thermostat from Gen 3 to Gen 4.

I am getting an error e72, but the power wire shows as good on Gen 4. Any help! Thanks

Morning everyone, my wife and I just purchased our first home. The AC unit is a bit old, my handler upstairs is from 2015 and the condenser I believe, is from 2013. I will confirm and post down in the comments later.

We have a Google nest here in the house, the one with the mirrored front. I gotta admit I’ve been quite apprehensive about keeping it.

When we moved in, I had the unit checked out and everything was fine, my HVAC tech checked free on pressures, capacitor and so on and said the unit was very well taken care of andnin good shape and to wait 2-3 months before we go ahead and clean the coils. We’re 2.5 months in and I feel the AC is running more than normal.

We live in South Florida, in Broward County and the heat is in full force right now so I expect the unit to run more, however, last night did it for me. I woke up at 3am and I went to check my thermostat. The temp was set to 72/73 which is our normal night time sleep temps and it was measuring the temps in my house at 77 degrees and the humidity at 75%.

At 7pm the thermostat was reading indoor temps of 78, which i have to mention, school just started so I was leaving the house at 75 with the kids inside it seems it cannot keep that temp anymore. I watch the indoor temps slowly climb and climb and the AC just runs and runs to try and lower temps.

I took a reading at the AC coming out of my vent, near the handler, and I was getting 63-64 coming out of the vent. We have noticed that a lot of the vents are installed, backwards. For example, a vent in my dining room instead of facing the open area to push the air that way, it’s pointed to the wall. A lot of them a positioned this way.

We’re measuring all the vents and we’re placing them with new ones These are old, plastic and have turned yellow from light exposure.

Sorry for the rant, Im really asking if this is normal AC behavior for this time of year in Miami? Is the Google Nest worth having? Should I consider having different temps while we’re not home? I keep the house at 77/78 when kids are at school and now home.

Thanks for reading.

Hi all ! Recently purchased a nest 4 thermostat to replace my old one.

I have central electric heating air duct forced furnace + heat pump cooling outside.

I used to have a Emerson 1f80 and when I put heating mode with 3-4 degrees higher than room temperature the furnace would kick in stage 2 heating and it warmed the house really fast.

There was a physical jumper between RC and RH

And w1 and w2/aux on my old thermostat

I installed the nest 4 yesterday with the white going w1, no heating at night and this morning I tried the white in w2/aux and no heating as well.

I did not physically jump the RC to RH on the nest because I listened to chatgpt and I didn't want to break the new nest 4 by jumping wires.

What should I do ?

Seeing as Nest Protect doesn't allow new devices to be added. Been forced to look at other options....

Saw this on Facebook feed.

https://www.pharelabs.com/index.html

Seems like it has many Nest Protect features including path light.

Thought it might be interesting to share.

I have two thermostats in my house both of which are not smart - picture attached of the back.

We have two AC units, one in the attic and one in the basement to handle our top floor and bottom two floors, respectively. We have one radiant heating system (water based) located in the basement that is controlled by both thermostats but works one at a time (ie, the top floor thermostat only controls the heat for that floor).

As you can see, I do not have C wires which, based on my research, I need to update my thermostats to something connected to WiFi.

Ideally I want to control each zone using my phone, be able to setup automatic scheduled changes (eg, top floor AC adjusts from 71 to 77 at 7am M-F), or control it manually from the thermostat itself.

Any early advice on brands / models would be much appreciated. Is there a possibility of not needing a C wire? I am willing to have an electrician come out and assist as well if wiring is needed.

Thanks!

I moved into a new house, and did a full factory rest of the Nest to try and fix this but it's still the same. For example, we're usually out of the house 7am but on the weekends I want to sleep in. So tell me why the Nest is deciding to abandon the target 74 F temps and I wake up by 8am in a room at 77? And it says it'll start cooling to 74 in 20 minutes? (or does that mean it will be at the target of 74F in about 20 min)? Is it because it's not hearing us or seeing us move? For what it's worth, the thermostat is on the wall of a small corridor that opens up to our primary bedroom. Another example: at night we make it to our room typically by 10pm, otherwise hanging out around the house, and it's usually 76-78 when we're wanting it to be 74 for bedtime. Isn't it more expensive also to be fluctuating like this and having to inject a lot of energy to bring it down from 77-78 to 74 than to keep it at 74? Pic shows my settings. Help me understand this Nest, the little descriptions on the app are not helpful to me. TIA!