I got my August Nest Report today and I still can't explain how the Nest is doing anything productive/smart for the house. For August we cooled our house for 317 hours - that is about 100 hours more than July. Granted it has been super hot out here and August is always a peak usage month but that's a significant jump even with the "Auto Away" feature. The only thing I have done differently is I bumped the temp down to 74* at noon on Fridays. I have half days and when I come home it is pretty warm inside. Maybe I will turn it back up and try to stick with fans only.
Another thing Nest did was tell me how many leafs I earned - we pretty much earn a leaf a day due to "Auto Away". On average we probably use about 11 hours of AC a day. This weekend it rained off and on steadily every day and we only used 3 and 4 hours of AC on Saturday and Sunday. That was pretty awesome. Apparently we are awesome leaf earners so that is motivating in the game of "use less energy". Not sure how much motivation I have while it's still super hot outside but we definitely do not keep the house very warm in the winter.
This weekend we are hoping to finally make the push and get the rocks out of the back yard. I would also like to change out a few lights on the exterior of the house - everything is motion sense and they don't work well because someone shot out the sensors with a BB gun so we would like on/off fixtures.
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