The screen shows the set temperature and the current temperature. Is there a way to configure this to show the time and other information? Thx

Sometimes I will wake up in the middle of the night hot. When I go to the thermometer, I set the temperature to what it is currently on and nest will say something like starting and have like a 2 and a half minute countdown timer under the temperature number. This is different from the estimate it gives you for when the temperature will be reached. Basically it seems like Nest is saying the AC will turn back on in 2.5 minutes.

I have the home away assist set to my phones location and the log doesn't show that it thinks I was away and don't have the eco temperature close to where it would cut off on it's own.

How can I stop this from happening?

I have both an indoor/outdoor battery Nest Cam and a wired 2nd gen inside cam. I've had Tmobile home internet with both and it's worked fine. However, I had to get a new Tmobile gateway and I'm having issues trying to get them to connect. It doesn't matter how close I move them. I have two networks of 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz and neither one works? Any ideas?

I installed my nest thermostat e like 3 years ago and the time has come for me to reverse it before I move out. However I totally forgot where the wires went.
I could have sworn on the original thermostat there was a little jumper copper piece but I may be wrong. Please help !!!

Have to use this credit and I have no use for anything on the Google store. What does everyone think would be the best thing to purchase and re sell ?
I figured probably a doorbell camera or a thermostat as those seem to be the 2 most popular items people have.

Title basically says it all, I’ll try to change my temp on my phone and sometimes it works but others it does nothing. It’s like it doesn’t save it. I’ll have to get home and turn the dial because it never changed. I also have issues with it occasionally going offline randomly.

This is driving me nuts. I don't see any events when my phone is connected to Wi-Fi. As soon as I leave the house and go on mobile data and check the nest app, all the doorbell events are back.

Anyone know what is going on??

I’ve been having issues with my temperature sensors this month. They’ve been paired with the thermostat for over three years and have not moved locations. Multiple times a day I get the sensor is offline alert on the app. I replaced all the batteries, deleted them and reconnected them to the account. Reconnecting them to the thermostat is often much harder than it was in the past for some reason, despite placing them right next to the thermostat. Nothing seems to work as they go offline within the day. Is this part of the Nest to Google Home migration? Has anyone else had these problems?

Here's the situation: I manage two homes using the same Google account. In my secondary residence, the Household Routines (Home & Away) function perfectly. However, in my main home, these routines are completely absent from the "Automations" section under "Household Routines". In both houses, I have Nest cameras, and I configured two different phones (iPhone & Android) to share their locations. In the first home, it works as intended. When both phones are outside the home, the routine automatically switches to Away, and if even one phone is at home, it switches to Home. Unfortunately, I cannot set the same in my main home because this option is missing. Any suggestions?

So I’m currently using Simplisafe cameras (If you don’t already know these are by far the worst cameras in existence).

I want to replace all of them with Nest Gen 2 Cams.

I know Google has been getting a ton of hate for quite awhile since they killed the Nest app. All I read online is just how terrible the Google Home app is and everyone is regretting staying with Google, etc.

But is the experience really that bad? I’ve seen a few recent YouTube reviewers saying the Google Home app has really improved when it comes to the camera interface.

One of the main reasons I’m attracted to the best cams is because they can be plugged in and set to record 24/7 (with a subscription of course). I also really like the appearance and sleekness of these cameras since a few of them will be mounted indoors.

So is there really anything that I will regret with this purchase? Any huge major issues or downfalls?

TLDR: I want my ceiling fan to turn on when Nest turns my heater on to move the warm air around, but there doesn't seem to be an appropriate trigger action. Help?

Long version:

Here's the use case: I live in the woods. My house was designed with a wood burning stove for heat. Forced air and other modern hvac solutions are nonviable without spending tons of money. So instead, I've replaced the wood burning stove with a propane stove controlled by a Nest thermostat. So far so good!

The problem is how to move the heat around once nest kicks on the heater. I have a ceiling fan above the heater that does ok, but I don't want to just leave it running all the time. I'd like to have it kick on and off when Nest turns the heater on and off. I have a Bond smart bridge device that emulates the fan's remote and have it added to the google home app. It shows up fine and responds to voice commands. Lovely!

Ideally, the next step would be setting up Nest to trigger my fan whenever the heater turns on and run it in reverse to create convection and heat the house more efficiently. In the summer, when the house gets hot, Nest could turn it on normally to push air down and out and cool the place.. If we got really fancy, fan speeds would change depending on how much heating or cooling was needed.

But when I go into the google home app to do the final step and make Nest trigger the fan, the only available trigger events are

1. "heating mode" - which apparently just means active and not actually running the heater!
2. Triggering events at a specific temperature range. Which I can do, but negates the utility of a learning thermostat.

And, even though fan speed controls are available from voice commands so I know Google recognizes them, there's no option to dynamically control the fan speed. I could manually create scripts to set speeds depending on temperature of course.

As a stretch goal, I have a small electric space heater plugged into a kasa smart outlet and it would be cool to have that kick on when the heater ignites - but only during the day when my solar panels are running so it doesn't bankrupt me. That would save me money on fuel costs because propane deliveries are a major expense, but only if it works right.

Is there another option for how to set this up so it works right? It's super frustrating that the hardware and integrations appear to all work as needed but the app's configuration options are lacking. Is this something I can accomplish using scripting?

So I just got a gen2 google indoor wired camera and learned that I can only access the video on google home (not on nest).

When I go to google home I can see all of the cameras but only the newly installed camera is recording video history.

In the nest app the new camera does not show up but I can access other cameras and video history.

I am logged into the same google account for both nest and google home.

Thanks in advance!

We had to reset our wifi earlier in the week, and due to me being at work, the IT tech set it all up on my partners phone. I had the previous network and every device in the house set up on the home i did a few years back, but that all became null and void, so i deleted it and added myself in as a manager on my partners phone.

However now I'm stuck on setting up our wired nest outdoor cam and adding it to the home app. I've set the camera up but now it can't remember that i did already have a nest aware account. I go to log in and it says to log in with google. Password doesn't work. It's the same password i use for google. So i go to my google account and my nest aware account has disappeared. I received an email when i deleted the home that i would continue to be charged for nest aware until i cancel. I don't want to cancel i just want to be able to log in! It's like it doesn't recognise my Google account. And then I'm on an endless loop going round and round trying to gain access to my nest account. What on earth do i do here?

Hello and thanks in advance.

I’m helping a friend put a NestCam in her apartment. She is a bit wacky, and thinks the apartment management is letting people into her apt and damaging things (I know… sounds weird)

She bought a wired indoor NestCam, but does not have wifi. I could get her wifi thru say a TMobile hotspot for $10/month. And then she’d have to get a Nest subscription for $8/month?

Is there a simpler (cheaper) solution? This all sounds pretty complex for a 63-year old woman with limited English skills.

(And any non-wifi solutions sound even more complex!)

Thanks in advance!

Hi Reddit Folks,

I have an Aube RC840T-120, (click link for manual) and I am trying to control a Terra Bloom fan (something like this). The fan will plug into a 3 prong outlet, wired via the relay.

...background; I have a main room that has a mini-split providing heating / cooling. I have a bathroom off the main room that I want to get the air into. Idea was to use Nest to control the fan to turn off and on based on temperature in the bathroom.

I had an electrician wire up the relay. I double checked, and all the wiring looks good:

• Neutral wire to Aube White
• Aube Red--> outlet (for fan) --> Neutral
• Aube Black --> "hot" wire

The Aube relay's light turns off and on via Nest's control. However, nothing happens. The fan is always on.

(In fact, the fan was on even before I wired up the thermostat)

Is this because the fan is not a resistant load? How can I complete this project?

(bonus question: can the Nest be fooled into running the fan in "heat" and "Cool" modes?)

Thanks all

[Edit; it is the original Nest "learning thermostat" ... I think that is what they call the OG Nest]

[Edit 2; changed some words to be more understandable / descriptive, and added link to Aube Instruction Manual]

Hi - I'm trying to re-setup my Nest home from scratch. Long story about a failed migration and then learning that Google Home doesn't support Nest Cam IQ Outdoor etc. Google have advised me to set up a new Nest home using the Nest app.

However, when I delete and re-download the app it just prompts me to sign in. It doesn't have a + or new button to set up a new home. How can I force it to do this?

Thanks in advance.

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I have a shopping list. In fact now I have two. I sometimes say stuff to google to add to my shopping list. 50% of the time it adds it to a list called "Shopping", other 50% of the time it adds it to a list called "Shopping List". I have removed the list called shopping but it created it again. So now I have two shopping list which is a third world problem but why is this happening and how I can stop it?

To clarify: I always say the same exact thing: Ok Google, add milk to my shopping list.

Response 1: Ok, I have added milk to the Shopping List

Response 2: Ok, I have added milk to the list called Shopping.

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I have a Nest Gen 3 thermostat that might need some parts replaced. Does the board in the thermostat or the board in the base plate tell the furnace what to do? I think the HVAC tech told me that the issue was in the thermostat and not in the base plate. Once someone has the answer for me I found I can get the replacement parts on eBay.

This has happened twice, ac set to stop when it drops to 74 but two days ago it cooled to 56 degrees and today it’s already 67 when I got home