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Smart thermostat glitched overnight and my electric bill went up $60 in 3 days
Last Wednesday my Nest decided I wasn't home and started running the AC on full blast for 14 hours straight. I only noticed because my neighbor Tim knocked on the door asking if my unit was okay since it sounded like a jet engine. Had to factory reset the thing and turn off all the learning features. Now it's just a basic programmable thermostat with wifi. Anybody else have an algorithm decide your comfort settings and end up costing you real cash?
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mark43615d ago
Man I used to think those smart features were worth the extra money, but after a similar scare with my ecobee last summer I turned all that auto stuff off too. Nice idea in theory but not when it starts costing you real cash like that.
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cole_baker15d ago
My buddy had his Nest crank the heat up to 80 in July because it thought he was coming home early. Cost him like 60 bucks before he even noticed.
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My 2nd gen Nest did the exact same thing to me back in March, cranked the heat way up when it thought I was coming home but I ended up stuck in traffic for hours. I had to manually override the schedule every single day for like two weeks before I just gave up and disabled all the learning junk. Honestly the smart features are more trouble than they're worth... I set mine to a fixed schedule now and it's been fine ever since. The money you save on the electricity bill makes up for losing the fancy auto stuff.
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