Google Home adds scheduling for older Nest thermostats

Older Nest thermostat users tin yet uninstall the older dedicated Nest app. | Image: Google

Google has announced that users of the US and UK versions of the 3rd gen Nest Learning Thermostat and the Nest Thermostat E can present docket somesthesia adjustments utilizing the Google Home app. Newer versions of the Nest thermostats already let you to manually acceptable schedules successful the Home app, but those older models required users to support the dedicated Nest app installed for scheduling.

Google says the diagnostic “began rolling retired starting past week” truthful it whitethorn not yet beryllium disposable to each Nest thermostat users yet. The institution primitively announced the expanded Google Home enactment for the older Nest models past April aft revealing that it would also extremity bundle updates for the first-generation Nest Learning thermostat that launched successful 2011, and the 2nd procreation exemplary that was released a twelvemonth later.

Existing somesthesia schedules successful the Nest app are transferred implicit to the Home app, which besides allows sensor and instrumentality schedules to beryllium set. Today Google besides announced different improvements to its Home app for each Nest thermostats including much vibrant colors and updated descriptions making it easier to spot the device’s heating and cooling state, and a refreshed vigor dashboard with much details and a play examination of year-over-year vigor usage.