I hate people that at are too lazy to read up on something before posting ignorant comments.

great my benefits just came in

I'm waiting on a deal on nest protect...

I got the netatmo think it's great as it works with Apple home kit.

Good deal. I paid £179 from Amazon for this about 7 months ago. The thermostat can be controlled from your phone or the nest website which makes it really easy to set up a schedule. It also has an auto-away function which detects if you home or not and adjusts accordingly. There is a 3rd gen version out now so presumably that's why the price has come down... The 3rd Gen can control heating of your water too as well as some minor aesthetic differences. Teamed up with the nest protects (the smoke and CO2 alarms/sensors) these are great products which work well together.

Anyone know if this works in houses with two thermostats up and down stairs?

I m going to replace the old time switch with the heat link come with the nest, is the
'ON' terminal = call-for-heat terminal? And COM= Common , OFF=Satisfied? Any Idea?

They've also got them for £120 from Amazon Warehouse.

These are great!

If someone is spending their benefits on this there is something wrong with the benefits system!

This has cut our heating bills (enough to pay for it so far) - if this deal helps someone who is entitled to benefits, great.

Does this need an expensive heating engineer to fit to an old combi boiler with no external thermostat..

would this work on a combination boiler? Just moved into a new house and never had a combination before

How do I know if I have the right wires behind the old thermostat, so that the new 3rd gen can control my hot water? I'm trying to decide if the extra £65 is worth it for the 3rd gen above this one.

Also, I have a boiler that control the hear ting and water, with one of those 24 hour dials with pins, and it also has a little slider with 3 settings: 'O' is always off, in the middle is based on the line positions, and 'I' is always on, I take it I could leave it in the I position all the time, cos this thing would control the heating? It also has 2 dials behind the flap- 1 for water and one for radiators that I can turn up to max, but I'm not really sure how to set it up. It's all pretty confusing (just moved in to my first house).

Any advice from existing users would be awesome, ta

What's with the trolls pretending to be on benefits?

Surely you've something better to do on Christmas Eve?

Opening the window and shouting "Bah Humbug"?

Punching the homeless?

Stealing children's sweets?

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You fine if you use the 6s u get higher paid jobs that mean u pay more tax so its better for every one.

Anyone any idea if this works with Air source heat pumps?
Especially Ecodan.
Thanks

This is a wireless thermostat. It works by placing the thermostat/control part in the house (normally where you have your current thermostat) and then you have a receiver wired into your boiler.
The system is then linked to your wi-fi or home network so you can then control your heating using the app on your phone or the Internet.
It depends on your current system as to how involved this would be too install.

http://youtu.be/rwL57O0Hva8

Hope this helps someone.

What's the point of these devices? are people now too lazy to get up off their fat a**** and turn the heating on/off...really sad.

not sure i trust myself to do that. i still haven't got the hang of the boiler yet. All it seems to allow is both heat and water on or just water. Will the nest allow both?

Jokes aside, there is more too it than just a remote app on your phone. It connects to the internet so knows the outside temperature. On a cold morning the heating is automatically turned on earlier to make sure its warm when you get out of bed. Its worth reading about a product before blindly commenting.

The Nest stat will just control the heat on a combi boiler. My water heats up when I switch on the hot tap which is fine for me, takes slightly longer for hot water but that works for me.

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And the mother of all lazy tools the mobile phone..cant we just walk to the persons destination and talk

So why would this benefit someone like me ? I have a wireless thermostat ? Is that not the same thing ?

Bear in mind this does not have 'heating boost', something your 10+ year old thermostat will have. eg So you can't boost the heating on for x hours.
It's a US product, room heating was probably an after-thought to water heating

Looks nice though, that will probably sell it :smiley:

I have this and its brilliant! It will definitely save you money on heating! Its constantly learning. If you are away and its freezing outside (minus), it will turn on just a bit to stop your pipes from freezing/bursting.

I now want v3.
Does anyone know if its easy to upgrade to v3, without the need to call an engineer?

There must be cheeper versions out now.

Presumably you're basing that on some sort of credible data??

savings depend on your setup but can be significant - I don't have a Nest, but 3 years ago I did swap my 'standard' wireless thermostat/programmer for a weather & load compensating controller, and dropped my annual gas bill from £1000 to £400. And the house is more comfortable too.

I just moved into a new house that has two thermostats. Downstairs controls hot water and heating for downstairs and the upstairs one controls heating up there. Does anyone know what kind of nest set up I would need? I thought a 3rd gen down stairs and this one for upstairs.

Not really, if you are often out and about, then it will just turn the heating down instead of leaving it on timer and it heating the house for no reason.

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Estimated data....I use 40 a month gas and this would save a aprox £2 a month so to make 350 is alot of months.

Thanks, very much appreciated.

Interested in getting one of these, am I right in thinking this really only benefits people who leave there heating on all the time? In our house we maybe have the heating and water on for a few hours a day other than that it's always turned off. I.e will turn the water on for a hour when there's none left in the water tank and hot water is needed or the heating on for a hour when the house feels a bit chilly.

I live in a new build, it has a Honeywell thermostat in the hall and a Siemens programmable timer in the utility room, will the nest work with my set up?

These are a good idea but that lack of hot water control was always a bad idea. Yes many people have combi's now but far from everyone.

I had Tado for a year and it wasn't, however just like Nest or Hive. It isn't very good for large homes with multiple rooms. It will measure the heat in that location and keep the heating on until the thermostat is happy.

I've gone for a Honeywell Evohome system and the house is much more comfortable now. Every room is now it's own zone with different heating schedules, no plumbing required.. Still need to fine tune some zones but it's good.
I will add it's a lot more expensive. In saying that 30% off Amazon Warehouse Deals from Italy helped reduce the cost :smiley: Also this lacks proper Geo-fencing that Tad, Hive and Nest have. I just need to get the IFTTT sorted.

Which version did you get? I've been looking on all the Amazon sites for a while now and they only sell the older and non-wireless version of the Evohome. Also, the ones on Warehouse Deals right now are the starter kits with just the base and 3 valves - not even boiler control.
I've been quoted £700 for the latest wireless version with boiler connection and 8 valves including fitting - I'm just wondering if its worth the cost over something like the Nest.

How well does this work for shift workers with irregular shifts? I know you can set up programmes but how well does the earn my routine part work??

My plumber charged me £30 to put it in, if you want to self fit YouTube will hold your hand.

I have the latest with built in Wi-Fi.
My setup includes Main unit, Boiler Control and 14 valves. I ended up fitting it myself as no one bothered to come back to me.
£700 is a lot of money, but if that is fitted then its quite good. Even the Evohomeshop website is £690 for the kit you've quoted. Which is the initial kit I bought then sourced extra HR92s on Amazon and eBay.

Will I save £1,000 on my heating, I'm not sure, possibly not. However do we feel more comfortable in the house and feel the heating works for us, yes we do. I will save more money if I can get the IfThisThenThat (IFTTT) integration to work for more than one person. That's not Honeywells Fault.

Nest will be great for some but useless for others, it's hard to say what is right for you.

Always handy to stick it on 38 while on nights that'll please the missus :smile:...

Geofencing is available using Skykark app

No it wouldn't as I got the same setup. It would only replace one thermostat.
You should have two heating valves to control the two zones.

The problem you got is that you need to set your heating to be constantly on as the best is the scheduler.

I have a program thermostat upstairs so I don't have a problem but do remember that.

Nest or Hive!?

I got a netatmo-smart-thermostat as well got it for 100 on Amazon with a 30 cash back making it 70 installation was 4 wires into the boiler fairly easy. I didn't have a thermostat before that so it was simple easy to do

​been looking around and the Hive system had a setup for multiple thermostats, no idea if nest has a similar system

Wait, so if youve got a combi boiler, version 2 is fine, and the new version 3 only has the main benefit for those that have slightly old boilers (and a tank of water in the loft)? Have I got that right?

Price up to £149 now... spent too long thinking about it and missed out :disappointed:

​£120? Yikes that's a lot! Nest only charge £50 on the £199 3rd gen (and the 2nd Gen when they were selling it)

nest 3rd is not just about hot water control. It can also be the one to go for if you have an opentherm compatible boiler. That is counting on nest to improve on its opentherm support. Also best third has Bluetooth smart so you might see some apps to control Bluetooth smart appliances in the future.

Back down to £134