Check the Troubleshoot when your thermostat won’t turn on article for more help. If it’s below 3.6V, there might be a power issue that causes your thermostat to disconnect.If it’s 3.8V or higher, your thermostat is not disconnected because of a low battery. ![]() To check the battery level, on your thermostat, open the Quick View menu select Settings Technical Info Power. Nest Thermostat E or Nest Learning Thermostat Note: If low battery is a recurring issue or if you think there may be an issue with wiring, check the Troubleshoot when your thermostat won’t turn on article for more help. Then, check if your thermostat reconnects. If the status says “Very low,” replace the batteries with new ones. The icon changes depending on charge level. To check the battery level, on your thermostat, open the Menu view select Settings Battery. The Nest Thermostat lets you know when the battery level is getting low, but you can manually check it any time. If your thermostat repeatedly loses battery charge, it may require a C wire or the Nest Power Connector. It does this to conserve power, so it can continue to control your system. That will eventually bite you.If your thermostat’s battery level is low, it will disconnect from Wi-Fi. Also, turn off the android thing where it revokes permissions for apps that haven't been used in a while. Do this for other apps that use location as well. Hint: Make sure the smartthings app is given FULL location permissions: "Allow all the time", and "Use precise location". I have one changing my thermostat's mode to heat when the app's home status is changed to home, and another changing the thermostat to eco when the app's home status is set to away. Google uses the commi/apple mindset, stripping all useful but potentially confusing options so that even the most fervent idiot can use the app.ģrd: Write 2 more routines to control the nest device. There are a number of other options here that make this way way way better than what google is doing. phone to these routines so it doesn't set to away when there are others still home. You need to add your wife/kids/mother-in-law's. These basically say that if your phone's location is at a certain location, the app's home location status is set to either home or away. It makes it a very powerful tool though.ġst step: Add a device (your nest device)Ģnd: create 2 separate routines under the automations tab. There's a basic understanding of programing that's required to use it. It's for the more technically minded though, fyi. I am nearly ready to rip it off the wall and go get a real thermostat. and somehow that made it switch on Away Mode. ![]() This morning we again woke up to a cold house! I think this most recent failure is related to the Thermostat losing WiFi for a time. I still can not get it to stop periodically entering Away Mode. We found out we had to keep disabling things, or some "feature" would cause it again to drop our temps to 60. We just want a thermostat that will go to the temperature we set and not use AUX heat. After trying, we were forced to disable Away Mode, Phone Location, Sense, Learning, Eco and AUX. After 2 weeks of trying we finally decided to give up on any $ savings, as Learning Mode is Brain Dead. ![]() It insists on dropping the temperature to 60 and it is a very complex process to stop that bad behavior. The thermostat won't do what you tell it to. The Nest Learning Thermostat is one of the worst products I've ever encountered.
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