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My smart thermostat decided it was 90 degrees in my house last night.
The Nest in my living room went haywire around 2 AM and cranked the AC down to 60. Woke up freezing. I had to do a hard reset by pulling it off the wall for 30 seconds, which fixed it. Is it better to just use a basic programmable thermostat for reliability, or stick with the smart features and hope updates fix the bugs?
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the_tara7mo ago
That 20% savings @murray.cole mentioned is huge, but a thermostat you can't trust is worse than a basic one. I'd rather have a dumb thermostat that just works on schedule than wake up in a freezer because of a bad update. Maybe the fix is using smart features only for learning your schedule, then locking it so it can't make wild changes overnight.
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miles7986mo ago
Disagree a bit here. I get the fear of a bad update but honestly the Nest I've had for 3 years has never done anything crazy overnight. It learns my pattern and then pretty much stays put. The 20% savings for me came from it adjusting when I'm not home, not from some random freeze attack. If you lock it too much you lose the whole point of having a smart thermostat, which is to save without you thinking about it. Plus you can always set manual overrides or turn off auto schedule if you're worried. Have you actually had a smart one mess up on you before?
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