Fancy new thermostat

[glatt]

Oh, hey. I should have updated this thread.

I got a Nest thermostat as a present for my birthday back in April, and installed it just as the heating season was ending, and the open window season was beginning. But now it's AC season.

I don't know if you noticed, but it's been pretty damn hot lately. This week is a bit better, but last week was insane. Anyway, we were on vacation at a lake in Pennsylvania. We had set the Nest to "away" mode, which for us and the way we programmed the Nest meant that it wasn't going to cool the house at all.

It was Saturday up in Pennsylvania, and we saw on the news that it was 106 in Arlington. So my wife pulled out her Android phone, connected with the Nest, and turned on our AC from 3 states away. The AC worked all night on an empty house, slowly getting the temperature lowered, and when we walked in the front door in the early afternoon on Sunday, the house was cool.

Without the Nest, we either would have left the AC running the entire time we were away on vacation, which is stupid, or we would have come home to a sweltering house and would have been very uncomfortable for a full day or so as the AC slowly brought the temperature down over the course of a 24 hour period. (Our central AC was retrofitted into our old house and isn't really sized properly. It just takes forever to cool the place down.)

So for this feature alone, I LOVE the Nest.