Nest Thermostat Fails →

January 14, 2016 · 01:15

Nick Bilton:

The Nest Learning Thermostat is dead to me, literally. Last week, my once-beloved “smart” thermostat suffered from a mysterious software bug that drained its battery and sent our home into a chill in the middle of the night.

Although I had set the thermostat to 70 degrees overnight, my wife and I were woken by a crying baby at 4 a.m. The thermometer in his room read 64 degrees, and the Nest was off.

These kinds of things are what make me stop and think if I ever want a ‘smart home’.