Nest Thermostat?

Just got a Nest thermostat for my new home... love it, and they do have good apps for both iOS and Android... but to have an all-in-one solution would be great. Any plans on supporting this? Lowes just announced they are going to start carrying it so I expect its popularity to grow soon.

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We've thought about this and are still a little foggy why these devices are relevant to home theater. When someone says "I want this lift/drapes/whatever to open when I perform this Activity", there is a clear connection between said automation functionality and home theater, so we have gone ahead with many things like that.

But when was the last time someone said "I want the room to be 74 degrees for Roku and 71 degrees for Blu-rays."

.... Point being, if it doesn't actually have *any* connection to home theater, we'd just as soon leave it in its own app. We're not trying to control your sprinklers.

Funny I jus got a Nest today as well. I think it would be neat to at least see the temperature. I guess just like lighting having a single dashboard is nice. Unlike lighting you don't change the thermostat that often though.

I agree that it is not a high priority, but it might be nice when your sitting there watching a movie and you feel too too cold or too hot.

Agreed that temp control isn't a home theater need but it would be a great selling point to this app. as an all in one "service". The only control features that I know of that separate Roomie and Control4 is the ability to control HVAC and security. It would be high on the "coolness" factor...

You've never sat down, turned on some form of entertainment with some guests over and someone mentions..."Its kinda warm" or "its kinda cool" (tempature wise)? The guys might just love a feature like this when entertaining a lady, room starts getting REAL warm......endless possibilities. Isnt this about connectivity, not just entertainment. You guys have a brilliant product, exploit it.

I would like to see it but double clicking home button to select the Nest app doesn't take a lot of effort. With that said having a single dashboard which the family can easily understand would be nice.

Thanks for the quick reply. I agree with jaydebeers and others... Why not have everything including the kitchen sink (do they have wifi ones yet?).

With the customization available in roomie, there's no such thing as "too many" devices supported. I completely understand if the reason is limited time/staff/etc, but why put up a fence and rule out anything at this point? I rarely pay for any apps but I feel like you guys currently have the best solution for IP-based home theater. I understand that part of your model is charging for addons (I read recently that you plan on an airplay/itunes addon soon for example), but have you tinkered with the idea of making it possible for your users to add their own devices if APIs are available? I think it would spawn a nice community of people working together similar to that of something like mediaportal. Just my $0.02... keep up the great work guys!

No app for my kitchen sink but it is a nice Delta touch faucet! Of course no guests understand how to use it.

We do support custom devices. We publish that information here:

roomieremote.com/faq/#customDevice

We haven't looked into Nest enough to know if that could work there.

I'm sorry but after reading ckole's Comment about "no app for the kitchen sink". As a custom electronics installer I get requests for all kinds of off the wall things. So I have to think outside the box. Sometimes too far. but anyway if you use the wf2cc or ip2cc with roomie you can control a delta touch faucet by controlling solenoid directly so you don't loose any of the touch or motion functions of the faucet. Pluse you can power the iTach and the faucet electronics using the same battery pack.

I would like to respond also to the Nest integration topic. In terms of relevancy to Home Theater and Roomie, I dove "all in" to Roomie and the hardware to make it work with the goal of 100% integration of home control into a single app. Its all about the WAF (wife acceptance factor) . I am fully in support of Nest integration. Thanks again for a great app.

I would also like to see this added as well, also trying to justify costs driven by Waf.

I think Nest integration would be fantastic - but must polished!

Roomie would have to show current temperature and some how have an intuitive raise/lower button for me to stop using standalone Nest app: think of the blu-ray progress slider or volume slider.

There is a pretty good case for thermostat integration with Roomie... Especially if you are controlling a "room" over the garage or in the basement where the temp isn't always perfect.

Roomie offers a nice task driven "User Experience" for each room that can include home automation (or using Vera or other controllers). I have done this with Vera and Z-Wave devices (automatically turn on the lights, lower the projector screen, dim the lights on play, bring them up on pause, etc.).

There is an indirect way to accomplish thermostat integration today by integrating Roomie with Vera using scenes. For example, Roomie could trigger a scene which includes thermostat settings (Vera can control Z-Wave thermostats and has a plug-in for the Nest).

But, I agree that direct Nest/Thermostat integration would be better ;-)

 

I agree with everyone here please look into it to make this even more perfect than it already is. Just like jaydebeers said above this really does happen quite offten. Also as well with mumbles1 in another post how about this thermostat? Again thanks for such an already great product just need a few more touches to have it perfect. :slight_smile:

 

I’d like to see radio thermostat control added to room activities. It be nice if temp could be displayed at top of activity page with temp up and down controls.

 

3M Radio thermostats wifi thermostats are readily available at any Home Depot for around $99.

here is the API for them

<a href="http://radiothermostat.com/documents/RTCOA%20WiFI%20API%20V1_0R3.pdf">radiothermostat.com/documents/RT ... V1_0R3.pdf</a>

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code.google.com/p/jnest/

I would encourage anyone who wants to see Nest integration with anything.. to email customer support and request that they make their API's public.

Given anymore thought on the topic? It's a new year and nest integration would be awesome.

Quite a few of us, well, me :slight_smile: sets my media room to 66 with my nest control.

When we go to use the room, I would love to have the Roomie set temp to 72 as part of 'room startup' and back to 66 as part of 'room off'

Here in New england, we set rooms pretty cold to save $$$, unless they are in use.

We need nest control to integrate with air conditioners that only use infrared controllers.

I'd like to see Nest integrated too. For me this is a lot like Webcams, pool controllers, sprinkler controllers and the like. Yes the all have their own apps. But as AdamHLF notes above (sort of :slight_smile: there are only so many things one can teach someone who is only a casual user or a guest. I'd like to get to the point where that is just roomie (and unfortunately for a while it's going to be Sonos).

Any update to adding NEST thermostat and NEST Protect to roomie? Your app is more than a home theater remote. It competes with Control4 and Crestron in it's sophistication and capabilities. It fits right in with lighting control.

Nest still hasn't released their API they announced in September. Their statement at the time was that they would do so in early 2014, so we look forward to that happening and will certain take a look at it then. We have a lot of Nest products here ready to test when they do.

Thank you.

Good thing roomie listens to his customers to integrate the nest!

its all about the customer, thats why i use roomie. and i also want to buy a nest

and it would be great if i could integrate it with my "roomie"

Warm :wink: regards,

Rene

Im not sure about everyone else, but i would be more than happy to pay for another in app purchase for proper full home automation integration within roomie remote.

As most others have said, the point of me using roomie is for full house intergration in one solution that can be easily managed and traversed by the family and freinds.

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Keep up the good work! :slight_smile:.

I agree. I would be willing to buy a "Nest Plug-in" on top of the existing In-app purchases I have already made....lets just hope the Google acquisition will not slow down the release of their API!

Looking back at Roomie's initial reply to this request; there most definitely is a connection to home theater for small apartments. The fan noise of the HVAC system kicking on can be quite loud, like in my case. Since I have an unofficial Nest plug-in on my Vera 3, I do have a "Movie Mode" activity that fires a scene in Vera that turns off all the lights in my main room, lowers the blackout shades, and finally turns off the HVAC fan for a 2 hour period.

This allows me to enjoy my movies without having to adjust the volume when the fan kicks on at my loft. Just thought I would throw that out there.

Still loving Roomie!

We're unlikely to create more in-app purchases. Our philosophy now is to put everything like this into the Roomie Service for simplicity.

At some point we'll just stop waiting for Nest's non-publishing of their announced API and add an unofficial interface for them. We'll re-evaluate at the end of Q1. Anyone could do this with our DDK of course now as well.

Thank you.

Sounds awesome.

on a slightly different note to the OP. Im looking at home automation and with the new products from lightwave i was thinking of using these with a vera box. Do you feel integration for this control box will improve over time with roomie, ie proper feedback of all functions etc or should i go for another control system or home automation? In short, which is likely to get the most attention from you guys?

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Vera is certainly one of the boxes that will receive continuing attention. We don't think any one box can be said to receive the "most" attention as we develop most features with several targets.

We're more likely to add new boxes as quite a few these "home automation box" controllers keep popping up. Vera strikes a good balance of maturity, not being one of the new kids on the block, not suffering from overwhelming false marketing like that new red one, while featuring a robust feature set. The flaw in Vera is that its user interface can be less than friendly.

If you're willing to stick to Insteon, the ISY99 is a great pure box solution and because of its architecture is slightly better integrated than Vera. Lutron Radio RA 2 is probably more integrated than any other box.

If you have OS X, Indigo Server is quite a great system. There are things to like about almost every system we support.

Thank you.

When/if you provide Nest support, will you make the thermostat interface generic? That way we could add other thermostats using custom devices.

So what ever happened with the public API coming in early 2014??

Did nsaspyggle put an end to it when they took over?

Hopefully roomie never sale out to google :/

271 days later, it looks like this was released tonight at 9pm Pacific. We're looking into it. This is an elaborate API so it will require a software release. Most likely that will become part of 3.0, we'll see.

Thank you.

Sweet!!! I signed up for your 3.0 beta. I have a nest and ios 8 if you need a tester :slight_smile:

+1 for this functionality! Hope it makes it into a 3.x release!

I hope it makes it there too!!! I would love to control the nest from roomie. Hopefully scheduled, remote triggers makes it there too.