How To Use Nest Thermostat [The Missing Manual]

We teach you how to use the Nest Thermostat to control your home. Think of this as the missing manual for your Nest Thermostat. If you want to learn how to use your Nest Thermostat we cover all of the settings and how they work on the Nest Thermostat.

The Nest Thermostat allows you to control your HVAC from your phone or you can control your Nest Thermostat with voice commands when combined with Alexa or Google Home. You can also set your nest to automatically save you energy when you're away from your home by enabling eco mode. The Nest Thermostat has a built in motion sensor that can detect when you're home or away to help you save energy.

You can also set schedules with the Nest Thermostat, track energy consumption and monitor the humidity in your home.

One of the unique features of the Nest Thermostat is the Nest airwave feature which allows you to save energy but shutting down your AC compressor but still circulating the cold air in your HVAC system to save energy.

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[dorisvandusen]

Thank you. I’m a senior and have had the toughest time with this thermostat! You explained it so well Thank you again. Be well,

[bonnietweed]

Appreciate your clear instructions and demonstrations. Thanks!

[pauldobisz]

The "instructions" that come with the Nest thermostat are horrible and this thermostat can be a little confusing to use, this little tutorial is very helpful, but I'm guessing now that I'm just going to have to play with it to get a good feel for it thank you very much for this.

[magsgonzalez]

Thank you! Could not figure this out on my own

[claudiad.]

Very informative video but had to hit pause and back up several times in order to catch everything being said...hard for an old fogie to absorb things that quickly! I've had my Nest for several years and have always wondered why the temps that I set never stay the same throughout the day. I think now I'm better equipped to figure out all of the settings! Thank you so much.

[gfotinakes]

Thank you for an excellent presentation. I am a slow learner so I have copied your video to tutor me again and again.

[PoeLemic]

Thank you for explaining this. This makes it very simple. I got a Nest and my wife set it up, but it's been changing the damned temperature all the time. So, I bet it has schedules that I need to adjust, and I think it is auto-learning ... Maybe, there are no schedules, and it's just auto-adjusting. Don't know, but now, I can figure it out. Yes, I love it, but we're still adjusting to a new A/C Unit because we had freon and now we've got preon. So, it's a hell of an upgrade. Best decision we ever made, I think. Ours was from 2004, and it was not cooling like it did. But, now, it's a frig in here some evenings -- with how my wife set it, but that's nice and all. But, I've got to get it where it saves poweer, and where I understand why it's happening. So, this video helps me.

[johny]

Ordered one earlier and it’s said to arrive tomorrow, this tutorial really helped man, thanks! 😄

[zrohit]

Excellent Video. One item to add is the different color and what they mean for 3rd gen Nest. Blue, Orange, Black

[candicemilliner]

I had mine for awhile now and finally figured out how to work the heat n cool mode

[fzrgpzi]

Hey Jimmy! It's your old neighbor Leslie! Thank you for this video! I will watching this many times! 16:56

[David-]

What does the message that appear in the the display that says “UNTIL 1:45 PM” means? Thanks and great video!!

[bigdudeyup]

Great video! Thank you very much for your time and insight, it answered exactly what I was looking for.

I am a senior as well, the explanation was useful and you have helped me understand the scope of what's now possible. Thank you! However, I HATE the nest thermostat, it's beyond geeky and quite ridiculous in my opinion and I truely wish I didn't have it. I either simply want the heating on or off, at the temperature I set at the time. I don't want some cleaver piece of tech trying to work out what I want and putting the heating on when I don't want it. The fact that I need to consult YouTube to turn on the heating is pretty depressing isn't it!

[anindakar]

Great video, I have a question, I stay in a cooler place and while I am away I set the eco temperature heat to 56F.When I am at home I had set the heat temperature to 68F.Don’t you think it will consume more energy to bring back the temperature ? Then how Eco energy mode going to save money ?

[garthe]

Thank you so much for this video cos the manual that comes it is useless

[BobBaesel]

How do you manually switch to a preset temperature or vacation mode? I don’t want to have it controlled by leaf. When I get home I want to switch it back to my manually set schedule

[jackmilne]

How do you send hate mail to the inventor

[muzerhythm]

Thank you for thorough easy to understand instructions!😁 My apartment is doing more energy saving changes: LED bulbs for kitchen, Nest thermostat, hot water tank blankets, ect. I never used one before.😁

[karenfrancisco]

My HVAC Company recommends this for my 86 year old Mom. I just had them put in an Emerson model I purchased, but my Mom (a common complaint) says the downstairs is too cold. They sent someone out, and this time I was careful to ask them what was going on. Her portable heater near her bathroom is skewing the thermostat upstairs, so that everything turns off. He recommends buying a brand with a sensor, and there are only 3 brands. I'm worried the thing will run all the time, as she will set the heat high even at night. You describe that the sensor in a different room can be told to not be the main one at night. This could solve my concern. My question is: by Night...can you set a time for that to begin? She doesn't want to be cold while she is watching the news in the early evening.