topic Re: Hot water control in developer API in Nest Thermostats

Hot water control in developer API

bad-guy — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 17:48:05 GMT

The developer API - https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/api/thermostat - has no hot water control or status, yet the (UK) 3rd generation learning thermostat provides hot water control.

As a minimum there should be support for turning hot water control off or on (scheduled)
It should have status of hot water demand - so if the hot water controls on the heat link have requested the boiler to come on due to hot water demand rather than heating demand
It would also be good to allow setting of boost heating function along with a time, 30, 60 or 120 minutes as in the Nest app.

Re: Hot water control in developer API

LarisaL — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:58:02 GMT

Hi there, thanks for reaching out! From what I can see that is the US version of the thermostat, the European version of the thermostat has some features that you mentioned. Regarding the API website, I suggest you contact the website for support, I can help you with technical support for the thermostat.

Thanks, Larisa

Re: Hot water control in developer API

bad-guy — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:55:16 GMT

Hi Larisa,

Thanks for the reply. I raised a ticket on the API - https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/291241157 - and they said to raise a post here too. Hot water control is quite standard on UK thermostats, so it would be great to have this added to the API.

Re: Hot water control in developer API

LarisaL — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:56:10 GMT

We understand, but here we are technical support specialists, we can help you with technical issues and this is a situation for the developers. Thank you for your feedback, we'll take it into consideration.

Re: Hot water control in developer API

LarisaL — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:28:12 GMT

Hi there, just checking in! Did you see the message from above?

Re: Hot water control in developer API

LarisaL — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 08:35:50 GMT

I haven't heard from you in a while so I'll be locking this thread. If you have any new issues, updates or just a discussion topic, feel free to start a new thread in the community. Thanks, Larisa.