Nest Third-Generation Thermostat Review 2019

The Nest Thermostat was the smart home product I bought for my house. And it's more than paid for itself in terms of convenience, if not by actually saving money every month on heating and cooling. Plus it works in conjunction with so many other smart things. So it's about time I actually do a video on it!

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Modern Dad is shot live on location in Pensacola, Florida. Yes, it's the best damned city there is.

[miketdarnell]

I'm confident Florida is never really really cold.

[Xerazal]

Something that you probably should have mentioned just that the way the temperature sensors work. They have a 2-year batteries, and they work independently from one another. By that, I mean that you can't have the nest average the temperature between all the sensors and adjust the schedule based on that, you have to select one sensor that works with at a time. You can schedule the sensors to switch throughout the day, like for instance in the morning having it work with sensor number one, in the evening have it work with sensor number 2, etc etc. But the nest won't add the temperatures together and then average them out, to give you an average temperature of your house and then heat and cool based on that, which is kind of a downside, especially if you have a home like mine where the basement is usually about 4 degrees cooler than the living room, and the temperature upstairs is usually about two to three degrees higher than the living room.

[m.oskam]

How did you do that with the slate plate? I kinda like that

[acorbo]

Does Nest sell the white plate you have bordering your device? That is handy to cover the preexisting thermostat’s paint lines.

[davedave]

Nice video. Good presentation and clear information. Nice work Phil

[ShPrez]

I always laugh when Florida people give their impression on what is considered “cold” 😂😂😂

[HeidiRiv]

Hi. Are you camaras Nest also. It looks super clear.

[JenniferKhrapova]

"Florida gets really hot and really cold"

*Laughs in midwest*

[alpenland]

I have a large house/cabin in the mountains of Alberta that I rent out. I hope to use one nest thermostat to control the floor heat in the basement Suite and another one to control the forced heat in the upper two floors. I hope to raise the temp before guests arrive and another Nest to ensure that the temp is lowered when they leave. I should be able to make sure the place is not freezing as i have back up electrical heat in case the main boiler malfunctions.

[blackbushido]

Hello. Excellent video!! I love your upfront and honesty!! Keep up the great work!!! Thank you

[deplorablepatriot]

My biggest pet peeve about the Nest 3 is that there is no manual override. This would be an easy firmware update...but, as of yet, Nest refuses to offer this option. The only workaround I have found is to reset the schedule to zero it out...and then, after the device restarts, go back to settings and hit "Nest Sense" and turn off the schedule. Pretty annoying for a device that costs so much.

[Boswd]

I know out of the box it seems pricey but so many energy companies offer great rebates and some instant rebates they make them so affordable now adays it's almost a no brainer in cold states and a very hot states.

[williscooper]

The problem with room sensors is that to keep that one or two rooms cool or hot depending on what it is laking, you tend to over cool or over heat the remaining rooms. Room sensors dont solve the issue which is either bad insulation in that area or poorly managed and configured heating and air ducting

[Rick_Air]

Whoa! That's some crazy reversing straight onto a road?

[stevekaufmann]

I'm an hvac technician and the only issue that I find Is people install these on there multi stage furnaces and complain when its running on high speed all the time, what you do is you jump out the fan terminal from power to fan on the circuit board while its running till you hear the blower change speed but its stuck there so you can set it to low speed but it won't stage properly, just get a honeywell they've been making them a long time, in all honesty these are behind the curve and they're much better options that will properly run your furnace while maintaining efficiency

[jasonv]

I had a NEST for about 5-10 years and by some crazy chance I had a saw in the living room and somehow a board cutting malfunction happened and a chuck of wood rocketed across the room and perfectly hit my NEST. Lol It cracked the glass however it’s still working and barely noticeable. I might wait until this remodeling project is complete before replacing it with the newest generation.

[AntonyHart]

You had me at the (bad) dad joke. My wife would appreciate it.:)

[elainewu]

thank you for this. very useful. I have a question on when kids are left at home when the adults are away. how do we tell it that people are still in the house?

[leem]

Nest thermostat thinks it knows what temperature you want even when you've been setting the same temperature for months... Learning feature is one of the key selling point but it actually is not remotely "smart" at all. You can turn it off by disabling auto-schedule. But just doing that won't stop your thermostat from changing the temperature by itself. You need to go to the Nest and clear out the schedule after turning it off. It's not very user friendly at all. This is an example of throwing more technologies into a product and hoping it produces superior product... I enjoy voice control though. You can easily find numerous complaints of Nest changing temperature by itself. Normally, I would say the user is stupid but it's not intuitive at all.

[andyargueta]

Do ypu know if the fantech knot can be hooked up to it too? That's the humidifier