Why can't you boost heating with Nest? I own a holiday cottage and our guests demand that function.

[SwitchRich]

Seems crazy that such an advanced device cannot boost heating (for an hour) like my 20 year old timer device.

I'd love a Nest Thermostat as other features like the lock out functions really appeal. But without the boost function I wont able able to buy it as it would mean guests to the holiday cottage I own would have to tinker with the controls to get the heat they want? Forces me to look at Hive or other smart thermostats simply because they have that button... Quite dissapointing.

[MelbaDT]

Hey SwitchRich, 

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Best, 

Melba

[MelbaDT]

Hey there, 

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Melba

[SwitchRich]

Hi Melba,

I do have a question. Rather than offer a boost button which I can see why Google has not incorportated it given you are trying to go down the route of a "smart thermostat".

And it assumes that I have locked out the thermostat so guests cannot change the shedual. And they can turn up the temperature to a max of 22oC.

So if I set the temperature lets say between the time of 10am till 4pm (so during the day) to 15oC for every other hour.

No clever settings are enabled on the termostat. It just comes on if cooler than 15oC it aims to heat to that and switches off.

Thus if someone is home and they feel cold, they can go to the Thermostat and turn it up to say 20oC and for that next period (maximum 2 hours) the heating will come on and try to heat the building up to 20oC.

And at the end of that 2 hour period e.g. from 10am to 12am. The temperature will reset back to 15oC which will turn the heating off.

And if they start to feel cold again, they can go back to the thermostat and turn it up once more to 20oC.

If i've made any sense this would in effect be a "boost" function for guests. Does that make any sense? and if so could you comment if my thinking is correct?

Rich

[Trigger]

As someone who works in the custom install industry it baffles me that Nest hasn't got this feature. It would be pretty simple to add some logic (it is clearly capable of basic logic wether that's using the app on the phone or the thermostat itself) to get this to function:

> Boost function activated (button on app or via other means like Google assistant)

> Thermostat queries temperature and adds X degrees to current temp (this can be set in the app in settings) for Y time (this is set in the app in settings). This causes the thermostat to ignore schedule for the boost period defined in the app by the user.

> If boost temperature happens when room temp is lower than the schedule the thermostat adds it's predefined values to the scheduled temp. This scheduled temp would be a good basis for the feature to work off.

> Once boost function has finished it reverts to schedule for normal use. 

> All boosts must not be taken into account for any learning and ignored as it is used for infrequent spur of the moment occasions.

That would be easy to program to enable boost.