Today’s high was 12. As I type this, it’s -1 with a wind chill of -7. Tonight, I glanced at The Nest thermostat and it gave me some bad news: the furnace is busted.
Lloyd’s a trooper. He looked at all the fuses and wires and furnace guts, did some Googling and found out that we cannot fix this. Tomorrow, I look forward to making a furnace repair guy grumble about working on a Sunday. Sorry, furnace repair guy.
Good thing I have all those space heaters, huh? 🙂
Quiana says
Hey, Nest had an outage today. We pulled ours off the bracket and put it back on and it rebooted.
It may not be your furnace, Google it before the guy comes!
Lauren says
Hi, Quiana!
Do you mean Nest as a whole? That’s good to know. Lloyd did take it off the bracket when he was tugging at the wires up here, but I’ll pass this along. Thanks!
Quiana says
Yes, the whole Nest service was down. It is very irritating to find out that if there is a system outage at Nest, it compromises our house. Especially because we also have the networked smoke detectors that talk to each other. It doesn’t make any sense, but our Nest also stopped working during the outage. It got very cold. >:(
Quiana says
Thrilling thermostat update: this morning was really cold because our Nest died in the missiles of the night because the battery apparently couldn’t handle repeated attempts to contact Nest HQ yesterday. We called them and now they’re overnighting us a new one. Still doesn’t resolve the heat not working during Nest outages, but that’s another fish to fry.
Good luck worth your Nest troubles.
Quiana says
Oh for crying out loud. Middle of the night. Not missiles, this phone thinks my life is far more exciting than it is.
Lloyd says
I read it as missiles of the night and it made perfect sense.
So.. Our problem wasn’t the furnace. It was the Nest. I’m not sure just what happened. It didn’t completely lose power, but we did take it off the wall when it was obvious that it wasn’t doing anything useful. I hooked it up to a charger, because the cryptic message seemed to me to mean that it might not be charging.
My next thought was that I actually didn’t wire it up correctly when I set it up, but it wasn’t too terribly wrong, so the nest worked until they did an update that (and I’m really guessing here) made it so that it wouldn’t work if it wasn’t hooked up right.
AN actual HVAC person came and looked at it and said that it shouldn’t work the way I had it hooked up, and we theorized that it had been running off of the full charge we gave it when we first hooked it up.
The HVAC person repurpposed one of the wires that we didn’t actually need to hook up to the wire we needed and things seem to be back to normal now. I did reset it, so how it will have to relearn our weaknesses.
Deborah says
I think you’re gonna need a bigger space heater.
Brad says
Yikes! It’s cold there! We’re experiencing a warm front today, but the cold will hit us soon. Hopefully my ancient heating system will just keep plugging along.
Brad says
There is a typo in your second-to-last sentence.
Lauren says
Ha! ‘Figurine guy’! 🙂
Fixed, now. Thank you! (And thanks for nothing, autocorrect.)
Lloyd says
Nest not working when it can’t call home would be very poor engineering. I really hope that’s not what was happening. Everything that checks in with a server somewhere should just keep working when it can’t call home. Well, unless it is intentionally some sort of dead-man-switch, but that’s another thing.
Mom says
Hope it works now. Dad says he has couple of heaters.
Karla says
Are there any recipes on IFTTT that could help?