Nest Temperature Sensor Review

I can't add a temperature sensor. Every time I get the message that the thermostat needs to be updated. The thermostat is already up to date and I cannot continue with the installation. Will you help me with this problem?

Nest Temperature Sensors keeps giving me the message "This room has been slow to respond to heating and cooling changes."

This is not what everyone thinks it is. It only uses the sensor currently selected and change the temperature for the whole house, I repeat the whole houses against the sensor you selected and your desired temperature. So it doesn’t only change the temperature for the room you have selected. I don’t find it efficient at all.

The thing about the nest temperature sensors is that you can only schedule them in the 4 predefined time frames for morning, day, evening, and night. The hours defining those times are fixed which is really really stupid considering the nest is a smart software-heavy thermostat that costs much more money than a regular one which has better scheduling.

Can these just be used to monitor refrigerator and freezer temps? It looks like you can just not have the nest thermostats use them but they can still be used to display temps

Does it give you temperature trends?

Have used it for several seasons

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It’s going to be interesting here this fall with the new smart home partnership between these companies which smart home products become compatible with HomeKit. I hope google nest products!!

If you loose power do you have to reboot thermostat? Does it have a battery backup? I am talking about the Nest Thermostat.

i would like to see them release actual vents that work with the sensors and thermostat that dont rely on a server or the cloud to work. imo while the ability to designate which sensor the thermostat sources its temperatures, having multiple sensors imo only really makes sense if you are able to individually control the temps in each room. if its cool in the bedroom but warm in the living room, it would shut the bed room vent and open the living room vent or vice versa depending on what you wanted. i seen vent options out there but they all seem to rely on a cloud server and its own hub to work. i never got why everything needs a hub either. with the right communication language, programming and decent range, we shouldn't ever need a hub to handle all our smart devices. i honestly just think they do it so we have to buy one more thing.

Just make the rest of the house colder.

HomeKit is bullshit. I would rather use the Nest app or dedicated apps for the products. I am an Apple fanboy, don’t get me wrong but HomeKit is clunky and functions poorly. The Google universe is far superior for a connected home

I have a 3 level house and just one thermostat for the whole home, will this senor work by helping me set different temp at different levels?

can you see a timeline of temps recording?

good for what it is but at $39 I think it's overpriced being that the Nest Thermostat E can be had for $29 each.

Thanks for the vid... I switched to ecobee

Boy sure wish our house had temps that equal room by room. Unfortunately a three story home has its own issues when you try to regulate the temps on all three floors. Sure wish there was a simple inexpensive way to do that, but my research hasn't shown any.

So if you have a cold room, it could show say 67, and it heats it until is 70 meanwhile now the house is to hot and it begins to cool?




I don't understand how this can work unless you have fins in your duct work to control where the air goes, so you only heat the one room that needs it.

This is not a review at all. It is a guide to set them up which is so simple. Waste of time

What kind of heating system do you have ?

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do u need any type of hub for this? i just wanna see the temperature, dont need to control the temperature

Can you put one in the attic

The Nest does not save you money...they can not be programmed in 30 min
intervals thus actually costing you more when you just want to run your
unit for 1/2 an hour. They must remain on for a full hour.

I loved nest for the 8 hours I had it , BUT nest didn’t have an adjustable temperature band/swing so my air conditioner was consistently cycling on and off . I had the AC set to 77 when the house warmed up to 78 within a few minutes the AC would kick on . AC startups draw a lot of power so I had to return it the next day

and yet the sensors are not supported by google home ...

How did humanity survive before finding these kinds of complications?

Do you know if these sensors will allow you to ask Alexa what the temperature is in a specific room?

From what I understand, the nest only has two output switch connections (heating and hot water). So this would mean you could only switch on the whole heating system at once and wait until it heats/cools the particular room you are currently in. So let's say you're in the bedroom which takes 30 mins to heat up, and the living room takes 10 mins to heat up. This means that when the bedroom reaches the desired temperature, the living room will be like an oven. This is not an energy efficient way of running your system. From what I understand, the only way to do this is to have completely separate switching systems for each room i.e. separate programmable room thermostats, with individual valves, working independently of each other sending heated water to only the required radiators. I have installed these systems before a few times, so if I have this wrong please tell me. All the best 👍

Do you need the thermostat to use the thermometer sensors?

Based on your video I bought the sensor and love it. Great for the bedroom and night when you want the furnace to heat according to demands of bedroom and not main nest thermostat.

unless you have a furnace which will blow air directly to the affected area only, you are looking at that room dictating the temperature for the entire house. so while the living room does not need to be any hotter, it will get hotter until the temperature for the baby room is attained. sensors work well in theory but in reality the vast majority of homes do not have smart furnaces to go only where the temp change is needed. You may se your heating.and cooling costs go haywire.

Can have the thermostat use the average of the 3 sensors as the "current temp"?

I like your comments about Home Kit. You are definitely right!

Is this bluetooth or WiFi

Great dog!

What the heck is home kit? How many of these can be used with a single system, and placement in the middle of a wall looks absolutely terrible.

I don't like that you immediately started the video telling us to subscribe and like your video, before we have even seen any of this video or any other. Also..I don't like how you told us to like it...most people say something like "if you liked my videos and want to see more, then please subscribe" or something like that instead of just telling people to.

I specifically hate HomeKit because you're required to have this 6 digit PIN to setup my light products, and the pin was only included in the packaging. I'm able to connect the light to the internet on Android, able to control the light using Google home without a pin that I've thrown away already, and even have my nest products control the light for emergency or break in avoidance.. yet I'm stuck on the home kit setup page asking for a 6 digit PIN that I don't even have and can't even use the product I got on HomeKit for that reason. HomeKit is horrible, it doesn't include an option for me to 'scan devices on network' or just use my light bulb credentials I have for controlling it to add it to HomeKit.

If you want Apple compatibility you gotta pay the tax. No thanks.

I don' expect Apple to support HomeKit for very much longer.

I have a two zone house and two ecobee thermostats with 3 sensors each. I believe in saving money. Ecobee s was more reasonable and at the time offered a better solution and so does. I believe that some of the smart devices can just be gimmicky. Nest has integrated so many devices you have to wonder how often would you need to use them and is it overworked. I just want a smart thermostat to focus on the temperature nothing else just one job and is an important one. Just like i want the Philips hue smart system to focus on lights. My alarm to focus on alarming. My security cams to focus on security. Not to mention nest devices are costly compared to other devices that do the same or more. Just my preference. Thanks for sharing good video review.

Agree 100% Nest needs to support HomeKit. Thanks for the review.

I appreciate the review but seriously layoff the homekit nonsense. Apple is way behind the ball in smart homes. Google Home and nest work seamlessly or even Alexa...

The only reason they aren’t supporting HomeKit is because of of Google . If you don’t know nest is owned by Google , you can control nest with google home and google devices . If HomeKit was added you could ask Siri , one of google home main competitors. Basically they want you to buy google products not apple

probably the reason why Nest is slow to support homekit is because Google owns nrst and Google and apple are in competition with each other

This doesnt explain how do.the sensors work. Am I right it just triggers the boiler to turn to heating on for the whole house?
So effectively it defets the object which should be regulating room temperature individually for each room. Is smart thermostatic valve much better then?

Do you still not have high and low temp alerts even with this new sensor?

Good video, but Nest's late sensor arrival made me switch to Ecobee3 with sensors. I haven't regeretted the decision.