Anyone use a Google Nest thermostat? Are they worth it?

Biggest thing I'm wondering is, do they really save you a noticeable amount of electricity per month? Any known issues with them? On Amazon they mostly have 5 stars, but there are a bunch of 1 star reviews as well. Not much in between lol I just want a thermostat that I can program a weekly schedule...don't really care about anything else, but if I can control it from an app, that's a plus.

 

Honeywell Lyric.

 

No. I have one and hate it.

Honeywell FTW

 

That one has even worse reviews...like way worse lol Assuming you're referring to this?

https://www.amazon.com/Lyric-Round-...4529&sprefix=honeywell+ly,aps,213&sr=8-6&th=1

 

What do you hate about it? I have one, and while I don't think it changed my life, it doesn't do anything wrong. It's a fancy, programmable thermostat. It does what I tell it to do. Does yours not do that? It replaced a "dumb" thermostat that had a clunky interface that I couldn't control from my phone, so maybe my scale is off?

 

All I know about the nest is we get calls to replace them pretty often. I’m a fan of Honeywell 8000

 

Installed a ton of these. Never a problem.

 

What breaks?

 

Ahhh, the T6? I was just looking at that one as well as a couple of other Honeywell ones. Problem I'm seeing with all of them (for my situation specifically) is that they only run on 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and unfortunately I only have 5 GHz network at my new place. I need to do some more digging and see what other models out there work with 5 GHz networks. I think the Nest does.

 

My new HVAC came with a NEST. I have had it for just over a year and it works fine for me.

 

I switched from a Honeywell standard to a nest. It doesn’t make a noticeable difference in your bill. I like the features tho, and how it’s not lit up unless you walk by it. I like to think because you can program it to go into away mode and as soon as you get home it’ll cut back on which in theory should save money. I just didn’t see my bill drop any crazy amount when I compare last years power bill to the current ones.

 

I've had a couple. I like em. They look cool.

 

I don't like some of the auto programming that the Nest does, but I really do like having it. I'm not sure it saves me much money other than when going on vacation we can leave it nearly off, then turn it on a few hours before we get back home.

 

Don't put much stock in amazon reviews. Google amazon review scams.

 

You have a single band 5 GHz router? Hmmmmm.

 

What is the situation where you only have 5 GHz? I don't think I've seen that before. All routers still dish up both 2.4 and 5 as far as I've seen.

 

I hated the auto programming that it did, so I turned it off. Now I just use it as straight programmable. Put it on a schedule to turn it down a couple degrees before going to bed and up a couple degrees during the day.

 

I think with Netgear you can select/deselect the frequency bands but in this case (or any other) why would you?

 

No...

 

if you have to have a "connected" t-stat, i prefer to tell customers to get an ecobee.

however, for commercial applications, we sell and install Pelican or Venstar for wifi enabled stats.