Home power failure - Nest Thermostat won’t reconnect to WiFi

[moosebudda]

Hi,

For those who monitor a remote home with a power failure and their Nest Thermostats don’t reconnect to WiFi. 
Put this $8 temperature sensor in front of one your cameras that do reconnect to WiFi. It will give you piece of mind that your pipes won’t freeze. 
Mike

[moosebudda]

Just found out the Google Nest Hub 2nd generation has a temperature sensor. Would it be difficult to display that information in the App so users would know their inside home temperature? I’m thinking that’s an easy thing to do?

[CoolingWizard]

One of the ways to improve the connectivity of the nest thermostats Wi-Fi connectivity is to go to your router and reserve an address on the network for the thermostat by using its MAC address and programming it in as a reserved address. Sometimes routers receive a multiple DHCP request from a device the router thinks is already connected and has DHCP lease and it ignores the request. By reserving an address your device will always gets an IP address from your router when specified MAC address is making the request.  

Ken, The AC Cooling Wizard

[moosebudda]

Thank you! I’ll set that up on both thermostats. 

[Markjosephp]

Hello folks,

I wanted to ensure that everything was covered here.

Thanks for the input, @CoolingWizard.

@moosebudda, I'm checking  in — how's it going? Have you managed to setup your Nest Thermostat? Let us know if you need more help so we can assist you right away.
 

Regards,
Mark

[moosebudda]

Hi, I’m going to try the static IP the next time I’m at my remote home. It makes sense that this will solve the problem so you can lock/close the thread if you want. 
Thanks, Mike

[Markjosephp]

Hi Mike,

Sounds like a plan! In addition to what was mentioned by Ken, I found a helpful article with some guides for the Nest-recommended Wi-Fi settings. Also, please make sure to restart the router whenever changes have been made.

So I'm going to lock this thread for 24 hours. If you have any other concerns or questions, please feel free to create a new thread.

Regards,

Mark