Google Nest Learning Thermostat (4th Gen, 2024) with Nest Temperature Sensor - Energy Saving Smart Thermostat with Adaptive Eco - Works with Alexa and Google Home App - Polished Obsidian

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The Google Nest Learning Thermostat (4th Gen) paired with the Nest Temperature Sensor (2nd Gen) has been an excellent upgrade for our home. Installation was straightforward, and the setup through the Google Home app was smooth and intuitive. The thermostat looks sleek and modern, and the display is clear and easy to read. The learning feature works well—after a short adjustment period, it began automatically optimizing our heating and cooling schedule without constant manual input. The temperature sensor is a great addition. It allows us to prioritize comfort in the rooms we actually use, rather than relying solely on the thermostat’s location. This has made a noticeable difference in maintaining consistent temperatures, especially during the night. Energy efficiency is another strong point. We’ve already seen more balanced heating cycles and less unnecessary runtime, which should translate into savings over time. Overall, this is a smart, well-designed product that delivers on both comfort and convenience. Highly recommended for anyone looking to modernize their home climate control system.

Yikes what a neat device! It does learn from your daily movements to adjust either heating or cooling regime when you leave the house. It compensates for outside temps and figures out the time required to meet your set temps when you return to the home. There are many settings for fan timings ( to circulate stall air). To use the devices many features one should use the Google home app which requires WiFi. Should this be a ‘no -no’ it can be easily programmed directed by using the thermostat. Our one negative comment is the price. A Generation 3 unit costs less but lacks conservation features of this unit. Time will tell if the units features will save us energy costs. Google emphasized it will save.

Works great 😊

It is the best thermostat in the market. We absolutely love the features. This winter it has helped us save so much on electricity. It keeps the temperature inside house regulated. My wife approves it as it is aesthetically beautiful as well.

When one of our 3rd Gen Nest Thermostats stopped working, I decided to replace it with a 4th Generation Nest unit. Oddly, the mounting hardware for the 4th Generation is completely different from the 3rd Generation, which is annoying. The wiring backplate is incompatible, as the 4th Generation has a different electrical connector to the thermostat. One nice thing about the new backplate is that there is a light built into the bubble level which signals voltage on the Rh or Rc wires from the HVAC unit, implying you won't need a dedicated C wire for power. Unfortunately, this is many times not the case for the 4th Generation, lit bubble level or not. When I properly mounted and connected the 4th Generation thermostat, the setup app on my phone reported that there was "no power" on the R wire, even though the bubble level was lit, and I could measure the voltage on a multimeter. There was no way to get around the error message in the app. A call to Google support was completely useless. The support person clearly didn't know why the setup app falsely reported "no power", or whether or not the 4th Generation thermostat required higher voltage on the R wires than the 3rd Generation thermostat for operation without a C wire. An internet search revealed numerous people posting on Reddit and other web sites of the same issue I was having. How could Google support not be aware of this? Depending on your view, the difference between the R wire voltage requirements for the 4th Generation from the 3rd Generation thermostats is either an undocumented design change, or a design flaw. Personally, I consider it a significant design flaw, especially that it is not documented in the setup instructions, and there is no warning of this anywhere in Google's documentation. After spending about two hours removing the 3rd Generation mount, installing the 4th Generation mount, waiting for the callback from Google, and figuring out the root cause myself, I unmounted the 4th Generation Nest, packaged it back up, and returned it. I ordered a new 3rd Generation Nest from Amazon, and it works flawlessly with the HVAC unit. One attraction of the 4th Generation Nest is that the "maintenance band", the temperature variance range at which the AC compressor cycles on and off, is manually programmable, while on the 3rd Generation Nest it is not. There have been complaints that the 3rd Generation Nest's maintenance band is only two degrees F wide, which in some climates and homes cycles the compressor too often, and is blamed for excess wear and premature failure on the compressor. (AC units and heat pumps both use compressors.) So if you have a C wire in your compressor-based system, I recommend trying to use a 4th Generation Nest. Another trick which works with both generations is to use a remote sensor in a different part of the room or another room where the ambient temperature doesn't vary as quickly, to reduce compressor cycling. I use this trick for our 3rd Generation Units, and it also works for 4th Generation thermostats. Note that using a remote sensor this way may require some experimentation to get the desired result, while the feature to manually adjust the maintenance band makes it quicker and simpler. I really like the Google Nest thermostats when they're working the way they're supposed to, but the lack of backward functional capability from the 3rd Generation model to 4th Generation model is inexcusable, since there's no warning about it. And Google support is ineffective in helping less technical buyers. The least Google could do is document the issue properly on their web site.