Google Nest Temperature Sensor- That Works with Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Thermostat E - Smart Home, White

The Google Nest Temperature Sensor has been a fantastic addition to my smart home setup! It’s super easy to install and syncs perfectly with my Nest Thermostat. I love that I can place it in different rooms to ensure the temperature is exactly where I want it. Now, my bedroom stays comfortable at night without having to adjust the whole house. The app control makes it so convenient to monitor and adjust temperatures remotely. It’s small, discreet, and works flawlessly. Highly recommended for anyone looking to fine-tune their home’s comfort level!

The Nest thermostat is algorithmic; this means it needs to know certain conditions such as are you home and this translates into motion detection by the thermostat and the use of your smartphone location as in being home or not. If the Nest thermostat were three sided, if the sides also picked up motion detection, a lot would be solved when it comes to the thermostat knowing you are home. A lot would be solved too if the thermostat's away from home and being at home but hunkered down for the night data points were on the ball. Until then, get the remote sensor.The Nest thermostat is heavy on using its app on your smartphone to know if you are home AND it uses a sensor to know if you pass in front of it. If you have just one thermostat in a two-floor house, or if you have multiple thermostats but you either stay to the left or right of any one of them or you are downstairs during the day or upstairs at night, a lack of motion detection wins out over the use of your smartphone showing you are inside the geofence of your home. This sensor is for one thermostat with one of four preset time periods (morning, afternoon, evening, night) that are fixed. You can choose just one of the four to prioritize temperature wherever the sensor is placed away from the Nest thermostat it is linked to. So if you have one thermostat for a two-story house, having a sensor upstairs to prioritize a pre-set temp of say 67 degrees from 9 pm until 7 am is great. Or if you have a child’s room, you can place the sensor there and prioritize your heat setting. The whole point of the remote sensor is to bypass the thermostat’s detection or lack thereof of people passing by it to show it you are home so the sensor can tell the thermostat what temperature you want at what time where. Of course, if you have say a second floor Nest thermostat and you want the child’s room to be 70 then yes, the entire second floor is 70. However this beats the thermostat going into eco mode (which you can set up to 65 degrees anyway on the thermostat even without a remote sensor) and keeping the entire second floor cold. In general, the Nest thermostat is good except for geofencing. It is not bad but it is not good. If during the day you are on a floor where you do not pass by the thermostat, it most likely will figure you are not there and go into eco mode. The result is you are cold, the thermostat’s temp is in eco mode, and you are not happy. The remote sensor is something like Civil War technology. It works, kinda. It does not detect motion. It only detects temperature in the room it is in and does absolutely nothing unless the prioritized zone and time period are in place. If you are downstairs most of the day, who cares if the upstairs thermostat goes into eco mode. If you are asleep at 10 pm and the thermostat thinks you are away, it goes to eco mode and you are cold. Yes the thermostat learns somewhat. Yes, it uses geofencing. Yes, it recognizes motion. Add the three together and Google does not yet have it right. Using this remote sensor lets you get a reasonable temperature staying put on the dial for a specific time period regardless of the thermostat’s going off the rails with its algorithms. I have two sensors: one is for the second floor from 9 pm until 7 am so I have the heat at 70. That is what I like. For central air, I have the thermostat in the second floor hall near the return. On the first floor it gets really hot from 1 to 6 pm. So a sensor on the first floor, linked to the second floor central air thermostat, gives me the chance to prioritize the central air thermostat setting to 66 which keeps the first floor bearable when it is 98 degrees out. The ability to prioritize the temp on the first floor with a second floor thermostat is great. After that at 6 pm, I don’t care if the Nest thermostat is bouncing around trying to figure out who is home and what it is learning. The Nest thermostat is hit or miss; the remote sensor helps it get a few more hits than before. I recommend it.

I have one already before and decided to get another one for our other room. Works great and install is easy.

Generally work well to make Nest thermostat adjustments more accurate. Seem to be plagued by the same issue I have with many Nest products, however, where they randomly disconnect sometimes. At least with these it is fairly rare.

This is a great and simple device to use if you have a room separate from your thermostat that is always hotter\colder. You can only use the thermostat or this device at one time but switch is easy in the neat app. Setup was crazy easy. One of mine seems to be a return and the battery was missing.

Amazing technology. It turns your house into a multi zone home without having to pay thousands to your AC company. It’s controlled by the app or at the wall mounted Nest thermostat.You are now able to pick which room controls the temperature in your house. It’s like the thermostat is in the room you choose. At night you can pick the bedroom and during the day choose the room you spend the most time in, say family room. Also in the app you can see the temperature in each room you have a sensor. Believe you can add 5 sensors.

We have a split level townhome with wildly varying temperatures on different levels at different times each day and season. With these sensors, we can set schedules and adjust the thermostat according to the specific room we want to cool. Yes, it will still cool other rooms but it will determine when the desired temperature has been reached based on the sensor you choose.Example, during the day, we mostly stay downstairs, which remains cool due to the layout of the house and the stone tiles on that level. We can set the temperature according to that room and save energy through the day. As bedtime approaches, we can shift to the upstairs bedroom sensor, which is in a much warmer location, and begin to cool that room for the night. We can maintain a good sleeping temperature by monitoring that room as well.When we’re not using the guest rooms, we close them off and close the vents as well. When we are using them, we use their sensors to maintain a comfortable temperature for our guests because those rooms are smaller and heat up more quickly due to body temperature than our suite does.What to maintain the temperature in the baby’s room, put a sensor in there!Must have addition to the Nest thermostat.Also, unobtrusive and simple to add and install!