{"id":40752,"date":"2014-01-11T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/11\/every-bird-to-its-nest.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:32:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:32:26","slug":"every-bird-to-its-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/11\/every-bird-to-its-nest.html","title":{"rendered":"Every bird to its Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Yes, we have drunk the Kool-Aid and bought a Nest thermostat fellowship \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nest.com\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nest.com<\/a>) &#8212; come join our weekly worship meetings! We were unsure at first if we wanted to take the step, but some good friends of ours, Brother Stan and Sister Mary, convinced us that this was what our hearts were searching after, and now that we&#39;ve been enlightened by its warmth and friendliness, we, too, are one of the Body &#8230;<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>No, it&#39;s not quite that bad, but there is a certain Apple-esque religious cult nature about the Nest company and user community. Since the founder was a former Apple exec, that&#39;s probably not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>While our current thermostat location is not ideal, either for any thermostat or for the Nest&#39;s movement detection abilities, it should still work (we&#39;re relocating the thing when we do the kitchen remodel this spring).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was not quite as brainless to install as the ads all make it out to be, but there are some well-thought-out installation features. \u00a0It&#39;s ability to learn when and what temperatures you want, figure out if you&#39;re actually at home, and the general user interface (including accessibility from computers and mobiles) are darned spiffy. \u00a0We won&#39;t save as much as some folks (our previous thermostat was &#8230; well, not smart, but certainly not dumb), but it&#39;s just kind of a cool indulgence that will have some actual utility.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-album-title' style='clear:both;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/5967704757016789521'>In album 2014-01-11<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-os5ZcUFeHhU\/UtGL2xoAiEI\/AAAAAAABKck\/dp6TYwGWf4A\/IMG_20140110_164503.jpg?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/eeZLZXR8FXK' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we have drunk the Kool-Aid and bought a Nest thermostat fellowship \u00a0(www.nest.com) &#8212; come join our weekly worship meetings! We were unsure at first if we wanted to take the step, but some good friends of ours, Brother Stan and Sister Mary, convinced us that this was what our hearts were searching after, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/11\/every-bird-to-its-nest.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Every bird to its Nest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-home-improvement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48957,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/google-increases-integration-with-nest.html","url_meta":{"origin":40752,"position":0},"title":"Google increases integration with Nest","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Dec-14 12:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Oooh ... Google Now will know I'm headed home and kick the thermostat back on? That's awesomesauce. Now, if I could just get it to work ... 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