Nest Learning Thermostat - Unboxing & Review

**Getting Started with the Nest Thermostat**

We begin by going back to our home screen and dialing back in. As we can see, we've been greeted with our Green Leaf, which indicates that this is more economical than usual. Taking a closer look at our brightness settings, we can see that we have several options to choose from, including High, Auto, Low, or Medium. In essence, leaving the settings on Auto means that the screen will automatically adjust its brightness based on the ambient light in the room, similar to how it would work on a Mac or an iPhone.

**Understanding Ambient Light Sensors**

The Ambient Light Sensor feature uses those sensors to detect the ambient light of the room and will adjust the screen brightness accordingly. When we approach the thermostat, it will turn on automatically if it detects our presence. This feature has a subtle click sound when scrolling through its settings, which can be turned on or off as desired. Additionally, users can choose between Fahrenheit or Celsius temperature scales.

**Adjusting Settings**

We now have access to various settings that allow us to adjust our account information, add new accounts, and even change our name. Currently, I'm logged into my Nest account with my ZIP code, date, and time. We can easily adjust our date and time settings within the app. Furthermore, technical information is available for those who want to delve deeper into their device's features.

**Accessing Technical Information**

The "Technical Info" section provides an exhaustive list of information about our thermostat, including wiring hookups, voltage, networks, IP security, and more. This level of detail is impressive and offers users a comprehensive understanding of their device's capabilities. Additionally, we have access to legal information, which includes reset options for the device as well as instructions on how to use it.

**Connecting to the Nest App**

Moving on, let's explore how the app works on devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android. The app provides a seamless experience across all platforms, allowing users to easily control their thermostat from anywhere in the world. By connecting to the Nest website through Wi-Fi or 3G/4G networks, users can access the thermostat's features remotely.

**Using the Nest App**

Upon launching the app, we're presented with the Nest thermostat interface. Tapping on it allows us to adjust the temperature up and down, as well as see real-time information about our ambient temperature. If the ambient temperature exceeds a certain threshold, the thermostat will automatically turn on the heating or cooling system. We can also view historical data about our energy usage.

**Adjusting Settings within the App**

Under the "Settings" section, we can adjust various features, such as fan settings, device names, and even change the temperature scale to Celsius from Fahrenheit. Additionally, users can access technical information and schedule settings, which allow us to set specific times for adjusting the temperature.

**Accessing the Web Interface**

In addition to using the app on our devices, we can also access the Nest thermostat's web interface on a Mac or PC by visiting nest.com and logging into our account. The web interface offers an almost identical experience to the app, with access to all the same features and settings. This level of flexibility is impressive, as users can adjust their thermostat settings from anywhere.

**Two Weeks of Use and Initial Impressions**

After using the Nest Thermostat for about two weeks, I've become increasingly impressed with its capabilities. The device's ability to automatically learn our behavior and adjust its settings accordingly has made it a valuable addition to my home. While the initial investment of $249 may seem steep, the potential savings on energy bills make it well worth considering.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys this is Mike the Detroit Borg with a look at The Nest learning thermostat this is often dubbed the thermostat for the iPod lifestyle and it's basically a major revolution in terms of how home automation is being designed uh this is actually a company established by Tony Fidel who was the president of design for the iPod and iPhone from 2001 to 2009 so the inventor of the iPod now brings us a new thermostat which is designed to save us energy uh partly because although this is not a New Concept uh programmable thermostats but it is the first one to be userfriendly it's also a wireless device so you can connect this to your home network which allows you to control it uh from a web browser on your computer or from an app on your iPhone iPod touch or iPad now taking a look around the packaging of course we have the nest thermostat on the front which is actually a knob style thermostat with this LCD screen on the front so it's kind of a mixture of retro and new it's a very attractive design uh so it's meant to be very user friendly just like an iPod uh click wheel you basically turn this and click it and that's how you program and interact with the device so on the bottom we have our specs and what's included and we'll take a look at that once we open it on the side we have the mission statement on the back we have some more product information including on how to use this uh so you can program this in two ways you can either set it uh with an app or you can set it on a device or you can set it on the web or this will learn your behavior so basically when you go to adjust it uh throughout the day for over a period of time it will automatically learn your behavior and set it automatically so if you go to bed at night at 10:00 every night and you turn the thermostat down and you do that for a whole week it will know to do that uh every day for the rest of the week or if you only do it on a Monday and you continue to do that for week after week it will again automatically learn that behavior and of course you can adjust it if you want to so let's take a look to see what we get in the box now in keeping with the environmentally conscious profile of this product again is designed to help you save energy the packaging is also recyclable and made out of recyclable materials so inside is our thermostat you can see the cardboard which again is very recyclable or will break down and here is the thermostat itself which has this little plastic cup over it pop that off now taking a look around the nest you can see we have this lenslike design with this ring that rotates and if you push down on it it does click so that's how you make Selections in the user interface along the side you have this ring which is designed to reflect the wall to pick up the color of the wall so it looks like this is sort of floating uh just on the wall so has a nice design touch to it on the front we do have these grates that which allow the uh ambient or atmospheric sensors to work of course in order to judge the temperature and humidity of the environment and we do have ambient light sensors inside is also an uh a rechargeable lithium ion battery so this will constantly recharge while it's connected to the power source on your thermostat uh back here you have a USB connector again for programming the device which you shouldn't have to do and of course we have the connector which connects to the wall plate so we'll take a look at that so in the bottom we have our literature wrapped in plastic just came off already so again this is uh instructions on how to use it these are installation instructions now Nest also has an instructional video which is very helpful to show you how to install this it's actually pretty easy now here we have the wall plate which is where your hvx system will wire into the thermostat so your wires plug into all of these corresponding ports and the thermostat will then connect to this port we even have a little level here to help you to line this up on the wall correctly also included our screws and Wall anchor so if you're connecting this to drywall this will help you to fasten it securely to drywall we also get a nest branded screwdriver which includes all of the bits you need for installing the nest in the handle of the screwdriver now below that is our optional mounting kit these are basically wall uh brackets that allow you to uh install this on a variety of walls that may be nonstandard or if you have holes left over from the existing thermostat these will cover them up so here we have the longer bracket which covers up larger more rectangular style uh uh thermostats that may exist on your current wall and here is a different style uh cover this is actually meant for thermostats that have electrical boxes so here you have the cover and the uh steel adapter that goes underneath so this actually mounts on electrical boxes now these are not very common in most homes these are mostly for commercial installations now I'm not going to go over the hardware installation in this video but you can see the nest tutorial in a link in the description below it's pretty straightforward and simple once you've installed the base The Nest simply snaps into place now the great thing about the nest is that the internal battery is charged over the low voltage HVAC wires so you may need to give your nest some time to charge before setting it up but you can also connect a mini USB cable to charge it up more quickly before installation once sufficiently charged the nest will walk you through the setup process by asking a series of questions first thing you want to do is connect to your wireless home network here you will be able to enter your password using the dial interface once the software is updated you can move on to configuring other settings first it will confirm your HVAC configuration based on your wiring so this is a good time to troubleshoot any loose connections next you will need to identify your location by your zip code and then you can choose a name for your thermostat or enter your own now you just need to tell nest what type of heating system you have and then what minimum and maximum temperature you want the thermostat to hold when you are in away mode more on that later now with the thermostat installed and set up we can go ahead and start using it so right here we have our main home screen this is what you will normally see when you look at your thermostat so the center is the temperature that the furnace is currently set to or your air condition conditioning and the ambient room temperature is indicated in this uh uh ribbon around the thermostat so if we want to adjust the temperature all we have to do is turn this ring you can actually hear it clicking as you turn it now if we adjust the heat above the ambient room temperature you can see the screen turns red and in fact it gets brighter the warmer we turn it and right now you can see it's actually indicating to me that it will take about an hour and 15 minutes in order to heat the room to 77° and it will adjust as you adjust it cooler so let's go back to 66° my preferred temperature now you don't have to click it or anything you can just leave it like that it's basically like a traditional thermostat in that sense but if you do click it you get some more options so here if we go to uh this red and blue dot you can select whether you want to cool or heat so if we select cool and turn on our air conditioning so right now it's defaulted to 75° but if we dial the knot back below the ambient room temperature again you can see the uh the screen turned Bluer and it gets brighter blue as the cool the cooler we set it so of course it's really cold outside right now we do not want the air conditioner running so let's go ahead and turn that back to heat there we go now let's click that ring and go back to some of our other settings here and let's take a look at a way now away is a quick way of setting the minimum and maximum temperature of your thermostat when you leave the house of course you don't want your uh furn is running at at full blast when nobody is home so instead of having to fiddle with a temperature all you have to do is click away and it will automatically set the minimum temperature to 62° and your maximum temperature to 78° or whatever you've predefined in my case I predefine that when I initially set up the device uh so of course you can adjust that under setting so this is a great way of managing your thermostat when you either you go away to work or you're going away and on vacation next up let's take a look at our schedule which is where we can manually manage our schedule so we get the entire weekly timeline and each dot on that timeline represents a temperature and time of day so this will automatically looks like on Friday morning will automatically adjust the thermostat to 65° so if we go back you can see that at approximately 11:30 p.m. it adjust to 62 De warms up at 65° at about 330 so if you want to make changes all we have to do is move the um scrubber to the uh point of change select it and you have the option to change remove it or click done so let's go to change and so change now allows me to adjust the time at at which point this temperature changes and we're going to keep it at 330 and clicking again now allows us to select the temperature so if we want it to be even warmer than that all you have to do is Select and you're all set and of course you can create a new one just by scrolling to any time of the day so let's say a new one at about noon enter and now we can change the temperature enter and you're all set of course we can remove that now you're all set now to get out of this I you have to do scrub all the way to the side select it and you're back to your home screen now if we go over to energy we can actually see our energy consumption uh for the previous week so if we go to yesterday we can see on average we use 4 and 1/2 hours of furnace or that's how long the furnace was running if we go the day before we get a little more information here we get uh it ran for 5 and 3/4 hours and up to 2 and a/ qu hour was due to adjustment so every time we adjusted it in order to bring it up to temperature that's how much time it spent warming the uh house back up taking a look at our settings panel here we have lots of options here you can see you can scroll through quite a few of them so let's go through some of them here we can change our fan speed whether we want it automatic or on always we're going to leave it on automatic we can lock the thermostat so changes aren't can't be made we can change the learning Behavior so basically if we don't want this to constantly uh observe our behavior and then automatically adjust the thermostat to our Behavior we can turn that on and off so right now I'm going to leave it on or I can pause it this is particularly good if you're going on vacation and you don't want it to learn your behavior while you're on vacation the other option is auto away basically because this has an ambient light sensor it can detect when somebody passes by it so if you have your ther therat in a high traffic area this is useful but if your thermostat is not in a high traffic area it won't detect movement so basically what will happen is if it doesn't detect anybody's home because nobody's passing in front of it it will aut automatically set the thermostat to away and so we automatically dial back the temperature uh to the minimum and maximum settings we also have time to temperature ready uh so for example every time you adjust the temperature uh it will automatically tell you how long it estimates it will take to warm the house up to that temperature and we also have that leaf ready which basically tells us uh if the temperature we selecting is environmentally conscious or uh more energy efficient temperature so for example if we go back to our home screen and dial back you can see we get our Green Leaf so green leaf means this is more economical now taking a look at our brightness hittings here you can see you can toggle through quite a few of them we have high Auto low or medium now you leave at Auto basically what Auto does is uses those ambient light sensors to detect the ambient light of the room and will adjust the screen brightness just like he would on on a a Mac or an iPhone or an iPad screen on when you approach basically again the senses whether you're nearby it will automatically turn the screen on if it detects it click sound uh this does have a sort of a click sound when you scroll through it I don't know if you can hear it on camera but you can turn that on and off you can change whether you want Fahrenheit or Celsius uh we can change our name we have our network settings here uh we we can uh adjust our account or add our account so right now I'm logged into my Nest account my ZIP code date time so we can adjust our date and time here uh wiring so we can see our wiring hookups here so this lets us know what wires are hooked up technical info has lots of info here name temperature humidity activity log equipment power uh voltage networks uh IP security everything you can think of is in here which is pretty nice we also have our legal info we can reset our device or we can go back to the home screen now taking a quick look at the app which works on the iPhone the iPod touch the iPad as well as Android devices uh this works pretty similarly on all devices so we're just going to stick to the iPhone to show you how it works now the great thing about this is uh because the thermostat connects through Wireless to nest's website basically this allows you to connect uh to the thermostat with any connection in the world to either 3G or Wireless uh so right now now what we have here is the nest thermostat when we tap on it we basically see exactly what's on the nest uh Nest screen so right now it's the temperature set to 66° and of course we can adjust that by using these arrows you can even hear the clicking sounds just like you would if you turn the knob you can also see the ambient temperature now if for example if we go to a temperature above the ambient temperature you will automatically see this turn red when the when the heater is kicked in right now it's not kicked in yet so there you go so if we tap down back to 66° it will automatically adjust back so this of course works with air conditioning as well and in fact if you want to turn on air conditioning all you have to do is toggle this or you can turn it off now we have some other options here so under settings we can set whether we want the fan set to Auto or on we can change the name of the thermostat we can change the temperature scale from Fahrenheit to Celsius and we have some of our technical info here we can also adjust our schedule here so for example we go to Tuesday here we have quite a few appointments here so it goes up and down quite a few times but uh if we want to let's say adjust one of these I have to do is hold on it and you can adjust the temperature up and down or you can move it side to side to adjust the time now you can also adjust the temperature live with your app and it's pretty instantaneous so if we adjust down to 65 degrees you can see the thermostat reads that pretty quickly now you can also adjust the nest thermostat from a web browser either on a Mac or PC so I to do is go to nest.com go to your nest account or use your nest account to log in of course you've also logged that in on your device itself and here you have a an interface that looks very much like the app so you have your nest thermostat here which you can click on and adjust the temperature up and down you also have your settings so if we click on our settings you have some familiar settings there and you can adjust the schedule simply by tapping on these items here you can slide it back and forth to change the time or click up and down to change the temperature so after a about two weeks of use I'm definitely impressed with the nest although it's a significant investment at $249 most of these high-end thermostats priced in about that same price or higher and offer far fewer features with a user interface that is exceptionally poor certainly nothing like the nest and since the aim of the thermostat is to help you save money having a device that automatically learns your behavior and can easily be adjusted from anywhere in the world means you're more likely to use it and therefore more likely to recover your investment so that's going to do for me guys thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next videowhat's going on guys this is Mike the Detroit Borg with a look at The Nest learning thermostat this is often dubbed the thermostat for the iPod lifestyle and it's basically a major revolution in terms of how home automation is being designed uh this is actually a company established by Tony Fidel who was the president of design for the iPod and iPhone from 2001 to 2009 so the inventor of the iPod now brings us a new thermostat which is designed to save us energy uh partly because although this is not a New Concept uh programmable thermostats but it is the first one to be userfriendly it's also a wireless device so you can connect this to your home network which allows you to control it uh from a web browser on your computer or from an app on your iPhone iPod touch or iPad now taking a look around the packaging of course we have the nest thermostat on the front which is actually a knob style thermostat with this LCD screen on the front so it's kind of a mixture of retro and new it's a very attractive design uh so it's meant to be very user friendly just like an iPod uh click wheel you basically turn this and click it and that's how you program and interact with the device so on the bottom we have our specs and what's included and we'll take a look at that once we open it on the side we have the mission statement on the back we have some more product information including on how to use this uh so you can program this in two ways you can either set it uh with an app or you can set it on a device or you can set it on the web or this will learn your behavior so basically when you go to adjust it uh throughout the day for over a period of time it will automatically learn your behavior and set it automatically so if you go to bed at night at 10:00 every night and you turn the thermostat down and you do that for a whole week it will know to do that uh every day for the rest of the week or if you only do it on a Monday and you continue to do that for week after week it will again automatically learn that behavior and of course you can adjust it if you want to so let's take a look to see what we get in the box now in keeping with the environmentally conscious profile of this product again is designed to help you save energy the packaging is also recyclable and made out of recyclable materials so inside is our thermostat you can see the cardboard which again is very recyclable or will break down and here is the thermostat itself which has this little plastic cup over it pop that off now taking a look around the nest you can see we have this lenslike design with this ring that rotates and if you push down on it it does click so that's how you make Selections in the user interface along the side you have this ring which is designed to reflect the wall to pick up the color of the wall so it looks like this is sort of floating uh just on the wall so has a nice design touch to it on the front we do have these grates that which allow the uh ambient or atmospheric sensors to work of course in order to judge the temperature and humidity of the environment and we do have ambient light sensors inside is also an uh a rechargeable lithium ion battery so this will constantly recharge while it's connected to the power source on your thermostat uh back here you have a USB connector again for programming the device which you shouldn't have to do and of course we have the connector which connects to the wall plate so we'll take a look at that so in the bottom we have our literature wrapped in plastic just came off already so again this is uh instructions on how to use it these are installation instructions now Nest also has an instructional video which is very helpful to show you how to install this it's actually pretty easy now here we have the wall plate which is where your hvx system will wire into the thermostat so your wires plug into all of these corresponding ports and the thermostat will then connect to this port we even have a little level here to help you to line this up on the wall correctly also included our screws and Wall anchor so if you're connecting this to drywall this will help you to fasten it securely to drywall we also get a nest branded screwdriver which includes all of the bits you need for installing the nest in the handle of the screwdriver now below that is our optional mounting kit these are basically wall uh brackets that allow you to uh install this on a variety of walls that may be nonstandard or if you have holes left over from the existing thermostat these will cover them up so here we have the longer bracket which covers up larger more rectangular style uh uh thermostats that may exist on your current wall and here is a different style uh cover this is actually meant for thermostats that have electrical boxes so here you have the cover and the uh steel adapter that goes underneath so this actually mounts on electrical boxes now these are not very common in most homes these are mostly for commercial installations now I'm not going to go over the hardware installation in this video but you can see the nest tutorial in a link in the description below it's pretty straightforward and simple once you've installed the base The Nest simply snaps into place now the great thing about the nest is that the internal battery is charged over the low voltage HVAC wires so you may need to give your nest some time to charge before setting it up but you can also connect a mini USB cable to charge it up more quickly before installation once sufficiently charged the nest will walk you through the setup process by asking a series of questions first thing you want to do is connect to your wireless home network here you will be able to enter your password using the dial interface once the software is updated you can move on to configuring other settings first it will confirm your HVAC configuration based on your wiring so this is a good time to troubleshoot any loose connections next you will need to identify your location by your zip code and then you can choose a name for your thermostat or enter your own now you just need to tell nest what type of heating system you have and then what minimum and maximum temperature you want the thermostat to hold when you are in away mode more on that later now with the thermostat installed and set up we can go ahead and start using it so right here we have our main home screen this is what you will normally see when you look at your thermostat so the center is the temperature that the furnace is currently set to or your air condition conditioning and the ambient room temperature is indicated in this uh uh ribbon around the thermostat so if we want to adjust the temperature all we have to do is turn this ring you can actually hear it clicking as you turn it now if we adjust the heat above the ambient room temperature you can see the screen turns red and in fact it gets brighter the warmer we turn it and right now you can see it's actually indicating to me that it will take about an hour and 15 minutes in order to heat the room to 77° and it will adjust as you adjust it cooler so let's go back to 66° my preferred temperature now you don't have to click it or anything you can just leave it like that it's basically like a traditional thermostat in that sense but if you do click it you get some more options so here if we go to uh this red and blue dot you can select whether you want to cool or heat so if we select cool and turn on our air conditioning so right now it's defaulted to 75° but if we dial the knot back below the ambient room temperature again you can see the uh the screen turned Bluer and it gets brighter blue as the cool the cooler we set it so of course it's really cold outside right now we do not want the air conditioner running so let's go ahead and turn that back to heat there we go now let's click that ring and go back to some of our other settings here and let's take a look at a way now away is a quick way of setting the minimum and maximum temperature of your thermostat when you leave the house of course you don't want your uh furn is running at at full blast when nobody is home so instead of having to fiddle with a temperature all you have to do is click away and it will automatically set the minimum temperature to 62° and your maximum temperature to 78° or whatever you've predefined in my case I predefine that when I initially set up the device uh so of course you can adjust that under setting so this is a great way of managing your thermostat when you either you go away to work or you're going away and on vacation next up let's take a look at our schedule which is where we can manually manage our schedule so we get the entire weekly timeline and each dot on that timeline represents a temperature and time of day so this will automatically looks like on Friday morning will automatically adjust the thermostat to 65° so if we go back you can see that at approximately 11:30 p.m. it adjust to 62 De warms up at 65° at about 330 so if you want to make changes all we have to do is move the um scrubber to the uh point of change select it and you have the option to change remove it or click done so let's go to change and so change now allows me to adjust the time at at which point this temperature changes and we're going to keep it at 330 and clicking again now allows us to select the temperature so if we want it to be even warmer than that all you have to do is Select and you're all set and of course you can create a new one just by scrolling to any time of the day so let's say a new one at about noon enter and now we can change the temperature enter and you're all set of course we can remove that now you're all set now to get out of this I you have to do scrub all the way to the side select it and you're back to your home screen now if we go over to energy we can actually see our energy consumption uh for the previous week so if we go to yesterday we can see on average we use 4 and 1/2 hours of furnace or that's how long the furnace was running if we go the day before we get a little more information here we get uh it ran for 5 and 3/4 hours and up to 2 and a/ qu hour was due to adjustment so every time we adjusted it in order to bring it up to temperature that's how much time it spent warming the uh house back up taking a look at our settings panel here we have lots of options here you can see you can scroll through quite a few of them so let's go through some of them here we can change our fan speed whether we want it automatic or on always we're going to leave it on automatic we can lock the thermostat so changes aren't can't be made we can change the learning Behavior so basically if we don't want this to constantly uh observe our behavior and then automatically adjust the thermostat to our Behavior we can turn that on and off so right now I'm going to leave it on or I can pause it this is particularly good if you're going on vacation and you don't want it to learn your behavior while you're on vacation the other option is auto away basically because this has an ambient light sensor it can detect when somebody passes by it so if you have your ther therat in a high traffic area this is useful but if your thermostat is not in a high traffic area it won't detect movement so basically what will happen is if it doesn't detect anybody's home because nobody's passing in front of it it will aut automatically set the thermostat to away and so we automatically dial back the temperature uh to the minimum and maximum settings we also have time to temperature ready uh so for example every time you adjust the temperature uh it will automatically tell you how long it estimates it will take to warm the house up to that temperature and we also have that leaf ready which basically tells us uh if the temperature we selecting is environmentally conscious or uh more energy efficient temperature so for example if we go back to our home screen and dial back you can see we get our Green Leaf so green leaf means this is more economical now taking a look at our brightness hittings here you can see you can toggle through quite a few of them we have high Auto low or medium now you leave at Auto basically what Auto does is uses those ambient light sensors to detect the ambient light of the room and will adjust the screen brightness just like he would on on a a Mac or an iPhone or an iPad screen on when you approach basically again the senses whether you're nearby it will automatically turn the screen on if it detects it click sound uh this does have a sort of a click sound when you scroll through it I don't know if you can hear it on camera but you can turn that on and off you can change whether you want Fahrenheit or Celsius uh we can change our name we have our network settings here uh we we can uh adjust our account or add our account so right now I'm logged into my Nest account my ZIP code date time so we can adjust our date and time here uh wiring so we can see our wiring hookups here so this lets us know what wires are hooked up technical info has lots of info here name temperature humidity activity log equipment power uh voltage networks uh IP security everything you can think of is in here which is pretty nice we also have our legal info we can reset our device or we can go back to the home screen now taking a quick look at the app which works on the iPhone the iPod touch the iPad as well as Android devices uh this works pretty similarly on all devices so we're just going to stick to the iPhone to show you how it works now the great thing about this is uh because the thermostat connects through Wireless to nest's website basically this allows you to connect uh to the thermostat with any connection in the world to either 3G or Wireless uh so right now now what we have here is the nest thermostat when we tap on it we basically see exactly what's on the nest uh Nest screen so right now it's the temperature set to 66° and of course we can adjust that by using these arrows you can even hear the clicking sounds just like you would if you turn the knob you can also see the ambient temperature now if for example if we go to a temperature above the ambient temperature you will automatically see this turn red when the when the heater is kicked in right now it's not kicked in yet so there you go so if we tap down back to 66° it will automatically adjust back so this of course works with air conditioning as well and in fact if you want to turn on air conditioning all you have to do is toggle this or you can turn it off now we have some other options here so under settings we can set whether we want the fan set to Auto or on we can change the name of the thermostat we can change the temperature scale from Fahrenheit to Celsius and we have some of our technical info here we can also adjust our schedule here so for example we go to Tuesday here we have quite a few appointments here so it goes up and down quite a few times but uh if we want to let's say adjust one of these I have to do is hold on it and you can adjust the temperature up and down or you can move it side to side to adjust the time now you can also adjust the temperature live with your app and it's pretty instantaneous so if we adjust down to 65 degrees you can see the thermostat reads that pretty quickly now you can also adjust the nest thermostat from a web browser either on a Mac or PC so I to do is go to nest.com go to your nest account or use your nest account to log in of course you've also logged that in on your device itself and here you have a an interface that looks very much like the app so you have your nest thermostat here which you can click on and adjust the temperature up and down you also have your settings so if we click on our settings you have some familiar settings there and you can adjust the schedule simply by tapping on these items here you can slide it back and forth to change the time or click up and down to change the temperature so after a about two weeks of use I'm definitely impressed with the nest although it's a significant investment at $249 most of these high-end thermostats priced in about that same price or higher and offer far fewer features with a user interface that is exceptionally poor certainly nothing like the nest and since the aim of the thermostat is to help you save money having a device that automatically learns your behavior and can easily be adjusted from anywhere in the world means you're more likely to use it and therefore more likely to recover your investment so that's going to do for me guys thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next video\n"