Nest Learning Thermostat
The best smart thermostat for Google Home
The original Nest smart home device, the Nest Learning Thermostat (£219), is now in its third generation but it’s yet to be beaten. A smart thermostat is the first thing you should buy if you're looking to reduce your heating bills, and the Nest does it the best by intelligently adjusting to the weather, your comings and goings, and even the size of your home.
Some Wi-Fi connected thermostats rely solely on geo-fencing for their smarts, but Nest learns your habits after a week or so of use and creates an ideal energy-savings-yet-comfort-maxing schedule for you. It then adapts that if you’re suddenly home a lot more (aren’t we all), adjusting based on its presence sensing feature. This uses your household’s smartphones, its built-in presence senor, and those of any other Nest devices you might have, such as Nest Cams and the Nest Protect Smoke alarm. If you’re still in need of climate control even after all this automation, you can always call on the Google Assistant to heat things up or use the Google Home app to boost the Celsius.
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