Nest learning thermostat in a bad location

[anestuser]

The location of the thermostat in the home is in an area that barely gets any foot traffic so the thermostat will always think we're "away".

I want to install another nest learning thermostat in an area of the house that gets far more traffic to pickup on when we're home. Is this possible? Is this a good idea? Is there an alternative? Setting scheduled temperatures is fine, but it doesn't mean much if the thermostat thinks we're always not home.

Additionally, I'd like to add more temperature sensors in the house and there's a limit per each thermostat so in addition to properly sensing people in the home, the additional thermostats would be helpful as well.

Thanks.

[RobDude]

The Nest Temperature Sensors do not appear to detect if people are in the room. This page lists all the sensors and which devices have them - https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9330256?hl=en and this page lists devices that detect presence and it doesn't include them - https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9251759?hl=en

On the topic of Temperature Sensors, I feel obligated to tell you that they likely don't work how'd you expect. You can only tell the Thermostat to use one particular sensor, and you can only select from four predefined time ranges. You cannot changes these time ranges. 

There is a feature called Home/Away Assist that will use your phone. If everyone in the house carries their phone with them and are added to the thermostat. https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9262475?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid#zippy=%2Chow-...

My first recommendation would be to ditch Nest entirely. Ecobee's temperature sensors will detect when people are nearby and you can do things like include N sensors based on a schedule that you can actually pick yourself. If you don't want to do that, I'd rather get a Nest Protest (smoke/cabon monoxide detector + motion detector).

Hopefully someone else has a better answer for you.