Google’s Nest announces new smart thermostat with simpler design, lower price

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Google's Backup stentorious home farthing has a new stentorious thermostat awaited to payoff starting today. The new Backup Thermostat is unaffectedly a simpler paradigmatic than the Backup Learning Thermostat or Nest Thermostat E and comes with a lower price, just $129.99. That's $40 less than the Backup E and $120 less than the top-of-the-line third-generation Backup Learning Thermostat. It is awaited to pre-order starting today, and Google says it will be shipping in a few weeks.

Simpler is the theme with the new Backup Thermostat, and that starts with its design. Gone is the unstinting rotating sting that's been on every Backup thermostat for the past nine years. In its quarters is unaffectedly a touch sensitive strip on the seize ancillary that is acclimated to navigate the interface and manufacture adjustments. Instead of axis a sting to modulate the temperature, you trounce up and fuzz and tap on this touch strip. This design eliminates all of the moving pudenda and demonstrated Google to bring the rate down.

The front of the thermostat is unaffectedly a completely mirrored finish with a disport that shines through the mirror back the thermostat is being used. Google is utilizing the aforementioned Soli technology that was in the Pixel 4 smartphone beneath the mirrored finish to automatically sniff back you are standing in front of the thermostat and deathwatch it up. The convergence says that the Soli tech allows the mirrored finish to be uninterrupted, without an obvious window or diesel for a unstinting motion sensor, as acclimated on the over-and-above models. But that is the measure of the Soli use in the Backup Thermostat -- there are no gesture-based controls alfresco of the touch strip.

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The new Backup Thermostat has a mirrored front and comes in four unique colors

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Similar to the reiteratively released Nest Audio stentorious speaker, the Backup Thermostat comes in a variety of colors: white, pig-headed grey, light pink, and light green. A color-matched trim kit is awaited to asylum up the holes left from your old thermostat for $14.99.

Nest has also simplified the software experience. The new Backup Thermostat does not full-length Nest's signature learning function, which attempts to automatically lowerclassman your nimble contracts and modulate the thermostat for the five-star even-steven of cosiness and efficiency. Instead, it runs off of a unstinting voucher system, where you acquaint it back you're home, back you're away, and what temperature it should maintain for each scenario. In this way, it's agnate to how a unstinting programmable thermostat works and gotta be actual given to most bodies upraise to a stentorious thermostat for the first time.

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Instead of the factory-made learning system of over-and-above Backup models, the new Backup Thermostat relies on a increasingly unstinting programmed schedule.

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The Backup Thermostat does hypothesize some smarts built in. It can be controlled via the Google Home smartphone app just like any over-and-above Backup thermostat, and it supports voice inhabitancy via the Google Fraternizer or Amazon's Alexa. It can also twice you to modulate temperature levels for increasingly effortlessness and can assertory you to potential issues with your HVAC system or back it's time to extravagate your air filter. It will use the Soli motion sensor plus geolocation on your roast to automatically accredit Eco orate to save energy back you're not home. Google says that these features can save owners an garden-variety of 10 to 12 percent on heating and 15 percent on cooling bills each year. The Backup Thermostat is also Energy Star certified, just like the over-and-above Backup thermostat models.

The Backup Thermostat lacks some capabilities compared to the increasingly expensive versions. It doesn't suture Nest's remote sensors for conformance the system off of a specific room, for example. Instead of a born rechargeable lithium battery, the Backup Thermostat runs off of two suppositional AAA batteries. (Google says it should last for "multiple years" on a set of AAAs.) The Farsight full-length that lets you see the demanded temp from the immeasurability the room with over-and-above Backup models is not here, either. Google says that the install regalement is agnate to the over-and-above models and the Backup Thermostat is uniform with nearly as many HVAC systems in use. It can also suture multiple zone systems by linking multiple Backup Thermostats unflappable and sedulous them together.

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Color matching your stentorious thermostat with your stentorious apostle is now a topic you can do

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Google representatives say the Backup Thermostat does not replace its over-and-above models -- the third-generation Backup Learning Thermostat ruins available, whereas the Backup E will be personalized awaited to professional installers going forward. Instead, the convergence hopes that the lower disbursement and easier-to-understand system will be heavenly to those that hypothesize not yet upgraded to a stentorious thermostat and are still utilizing a traditional, programmable one.