Nest programmable thermostat

[Dangjr213]

• Nest programmable thermostat (2nd gen)
• Model number - T200577
• MSRP - $249.99
• Seems like my best best is discounted Lowes gift cards and the movers coupon

Anyone else have any ideas?

I've been wanting Nest for a while now but can't seem to make myself pull the trigger because my house has two thermostats which would mean buying two....

 

[UNHBuzzard]

I researched the hell out of this & your approach is the best I could find... then again I needed 1 thermostat & 8 protects in our new house. Although I did OBC & HD GC's at the grocery store vs discounted GC's. Either way, not many other options. I also bought Amazon GC's at OD for 5x w/ IB since their inventory was more reliable than HD's.

 

[Matt]

They were on sale when I was renovating, but my house has something like 9 thermostats so I held off... The HD price was $200.

A quick search showed this: http://inewsale.com/nest-learning-thermostat-2nd-generation-stainless-steel/

 

[AZTravelGuy]

Never pay more than $200. Also, at this point I would advise a number of alternatives that actually have better features - and many still work with IFTTT and other smart devices.

Since I have a beta thermostat and another non-beta thermostat that I've put in and out of the beta software track, I see a lot of the problems. There has been a ridiculous WiFi connectivity / intermittent disconnect issue since a November update pushed to everyone. There are lengthy threads in the Nest forums about it, it's an acknowledged issue with no fix as yet.

I do have a Protect as well. Frankly I fail to see the value. Connected is great but the price is absurd. I won't be replacing my additional smoke detectors with more Protects any time soon.

 

[Dangjr213]

Never pay more than $200. Also, at this point I would advise a number of alternatives that actually have better features - and many still work with IFTTT and other smart devices.

Since I have a beta thermostat and another non-beta thermostat that I've put in and out of the beta software track, I see a lot of the problems. There has been a ridiculous WiFi connectivity / intermittent disconnect issue since a November update pushed to everyone. There are lengthy threads in the Nest forums about it, it's an acknowledged issue with no fix as yet.

I do have a Protect as well. Frankly I fail to see the value. Connected is great but the price is absurd. I won't be replacing my additional smoke detectors with more Protects any time soon.

What alternatives do you suggest? I'm limited by the number of options because I have a heat pump and not all of the wireless thermostats work with heat pumps. For example, I really wanted the Insteon thermostat to go with the rest of my house but it doesn't work with heat pumps.

 

[KennyBSAT]

If you want a thermostat you can control from your smartphone without all of the beta-testing-software-updating-crashing issues, get this https://www.google.com/shopping/product/2501375431827143601 It's a stable product that works like it should with or without a wifi signal, and from a real controls company, not a smartphone offshoot startup.

 

[Burgertm]

I'll admit, I bought my Nest mainly for how nice it looks. Its design fit in really well with a remodel we were doing. I haven't had any issues with the thermostat at all, but I'm only controlling a furnace/AC.

 

[AZTravelGuy]

Ecobee3 and Lyric are interesting alternatives if you haven't already invested in Nest. Lyric, as far as design goes, is a Nest rip-off. But it has some added features like using humidity in its algorithm (not just reporting what the humidity is, like Nest).