That's definitely a valid workaround -- adding two thermostats to the
same home isn't materially different from adding them to the same home.
They don't interact anyway.
This helped tremendously. (I hadn’t connected remote sensors, so can’t
speak to that issue). But it was very difficult to get a second Nest
Learning Thermostat connected. As noted here, the difficulty seems to
stem from:1. Setting it up fully via Wi-...