https://blog.insanegenius.com/tag/nest/Recent content in Nest on Pieter Viljoen's BlogHugoenFri, 04 Sep 2015 18:17:45 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2015/09/04/ecobee3-thermostat-with-remote-sensors/Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:17:45 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2015/09/04/ecobee3-thermostat-with-remote-sensors/<p>We&rsquo;ve had a particularly warm summer, for our very moderate area, and between my wife and my parents-in-law, they were constantly changing the thermostat temperature, leaving nobody particularly happy, and our electricity consumption sky-high. I needed a better solution, I found one, but it has some quirks.</p> <p>I was an early adopter of the Nest Generation 1 thermostat, and when we moved to our new house, <a href="https://nest.com/">Nest</a> was still the best available, and I installed two Nest Generation 2 thermostats, one upstairs, and one downstairs.</p>https://blog.insanegenius.com/2015/01/20/nest-protect-false-alarms/Wed, 21 Jan 2015 03:08:42 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2015/01/20/nest-protect-false-alarms/<p>2AM, beep, smoke alarm low battery warning, and when one beeps, all the interconnected ones beep, now it is impossible to find which one has a low battery. As for how smoke alarms look, I&rsquo;ve always wondered who made those terrible aesthetic design choices, maybe it is some kind of industry insider competition to see who can design the ugliest unit with the most obnoxious markings, and still get them sold.</p>