Enable airwave with heating

[sushant1]

Airwaves is a great feature for reducing energy bills, but I recently discovered that it only works with cooling, not heating. In my home, the master bedroom gets significantly warmer than the rest of the house (a 3–5°F difference). This makes it a perfect use case for circulating air to balance the temperature.

Currently, Nest does not support Airwave with heating, which creates a challenge house like mine with temperature differential and single heating zone. When it was just two of us, it wasn’t a big issue. However, with a baby in the house, we now have to keep the master bedroom uncomfortably hot just to maintain a comfortable temperature in the kid’s room. Having the ability to circulate air on a schedule—such as at night or enabling airwave for heating —would help tremendously.

Please consider adding support for Airwave with heating to improve comfort and energy efficiency.

[bennaudio]

I have a similar issue to this. I was able to set jumper in the furnace to cycle the air longer after a heating stage, but it doesn't run it long enough.

In your case and mine I would like the ability to sync two Nest thermostats. In your scenario so that you could put a thermostat in the one 'hot' room so that the furnace fan stays on until the heat drops below a 'cooling' point. In my scenario I have the heat generated in the closet by furnace during heating that I would like to cycle through the rest of the space until it drops down below the cooling point. Basically, using the air intake that is in that area to pull in the hot air that is there and spread it throughout my space instead of just letting that heat sit in that room. Maybe for me, it will be easier to get a one way damper (?) and get another furnace blower and force that hot air back into the air duct system until the temp on my second Nest in that room drops below a set cooling temp instead of trying to get a new sync feature added to these thermostats.

[sushant1]

For me that’s not an option. Furnace is out in garage. So technically that is another source of energy saving if nest keeps circulating air after the furnace is turned off.

[Kermit99]

I believe this is a huge oversight by Nest. I have been working on my (electric) heater and noticed there is a LOT of heater just sitting there after the heater coils have turned off.

[sushant1]

Yeah huge oversight.

No response from Nest team.

[Guarcax]

Hi folks!

Thanks for posting in the community.

I understand that you would like to have a feature like Airwave that works with AC but working with your heating to reduce energy bills. Your feedback is invaluable to us and helps us identify areas for improvement. Then here I send you the feedback form where you can put your suggestions about adding this feature to the future.

If you still need help or have any other questions, you can keep posting.

Regards,

Daniel.