Hi All, first time poster. I don't have a Nest but my elderly neighbor does and it's behaving somewhat oddly. She lives in an Eichler (glass house from the 60's) and has radiant heat. In my experience with MY programmable thermostat, it can sometime be hours to hit a target so that's what we're dealing with. She and her disabled daughter are homebound, maybe simplifying things somewhat. TrueRadiant is enabled and the Max Duration is set to 0.
Her current schedule every day is 4AM: 63F 6AM: 65F 5PM: 64F 8PM 63F
I was in her house and 65F is comfortable during the day. There's not a lot (barely any) of fluctuation in her schedule and I don't want to mess with that--she's generally comfortable.
The question is: in her energy history over the last 10 days, she goes anywhere from 0 hours of calls for heat to 7 3/4 hours. Fine, I can see some deviation based on external temps in a glass house during winter; temps typically have ranged from mid-30's to mid 50's during this time. But the heat is coming on at midnight to hit a target of 63 which is what the previous setting (8PM) is. And she's complaining that it's too warm at night. With the Max Duration at 0, I'd expect it to wait until the new temp of 65 at 6AM but it's coming on 6 hours early.
I'd be tempted to disable TrueRadiant to see what it does but it's an elderly lady and I don't have access except by going over and the tolerance for "winging it" will be low. Can anyone make any recommendations for how to achieve roughly the targets in the schedule?
