Yes I placed too much weight on the battery issue but also I did not
know that the Nest did not have boost for heating and hot water and was
not properly Alexa enabled. These are such basic capabilities it never
occurred to me that Google would have ...
I chose Nest because it was being recommended for holiday lets. I
considered Hive but didn't want a battery powered unit and I wanted the
thermostat to be fixed to wall so guests don't lose it somewhere. The
only feature of Nest which is useful is th...
The trouble is you can't do that if you lock the thermostat which seems
unavoidable in a holiday let situation. Unless you want guests to have
full access to schedules etc. The thermostat needs a boost function for
heat and water which is available o...
Which makes them completely unsuitable for locations which don't follow
patterns e.g. holiday let's. The other colossal omission is that the
only way guests can "boost" the hot water is by switching the entire
system to manual which then turns the he...
