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by sokoloff 406 days ago
The schedule editor in the Nest App is “way too cumbersome”? I found it one of the most intuitive and just flexible enough editors of the various ones I tried (a relative judgment, and it was well past good enough in absolute terms).
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I meant the part where you have to copy paste each day to get the same schedule.

For a given day it’s easy.

That's a fair point.

When I noticed that hitch in the setup process, I found the solution more clever and elegant rather than cumbersome, but the fact that I specifically recall that step from 18+ months ago means that it definitely stuck out and I bumped into it. In any case, it was leagues less cumbersome than "push this button a bunch of times to change whichever field is blinking, then tap this button to change which field is blinking" of older T-stats.

Oh 100% agree. It's still better than the crappy old-school thermostats. I wasn't even trying to compare it to those. I just expect more out of the software given that the hardware was pretty nice.

But does anyone leave the "learning" part on? I turned it off a few weeks after I got it, and never used it again.