Nest Takeout Data structure documentation?

AberangSteve — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 10:45:31 GMT

Anyone know if there's any documentation on the Nest Takeout data structure?

I downloaded my data a couple of weeks back and spent a pleasant few days unpicking it. There was a lot of data, hundreds of variables and no apparent docs.

A fair amount of the structure was either self-explanatory or at least deduceable (is that a word?, anyway). Lots (and I mean lots!) of the data remains opaque though for example :

what is the useful-sounding "totalHeatingSeconds" variable? Under what circumstances is it populated?

Where is the data that indicates a user has manually changed the temperature?

How is the motion-sensor or ambient-light data to be interpreted?

Why are there very obvious gaps in the data? (around 25% of my days claimed no heating in the download, when it's clear there actually was)?

Quite a bit of derived (i.e. post-processed in a server somewhere) data is included - how is that derived and to be interpreted? - especially as a significant fraction (6% in my case) was clearly incorrect.

Come on Google/Nest - data without useful metadata and documentation is barely worth the name.

Re: Nest Takeout Data structure documentation?

Jhonleanmel — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 01:48:08 GMT

Hi AberangSteve,

Thanks for posting. We deeply appreciate you sharing your thoughts and experiences, and we'll take it as feedback. We hope we can change your mind in the future.

You can check this link to know more about this: Learn about the Nest Home Report

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Mel

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