Hand holds a phone with the Nest app next to a Nest thermostat on a screen indicating HVAC running time - oasisamuel/Shutterstock For many homeowners, smart thermostats are worth the hype, as they let ...

Instead of first reaching out to support, some problems with today’s smart home devices can be resolved by looking through available documentation. To simplify that journey, Google has released two ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

In early July, when temperatures were rising to the 90s, my smart thermostat, a Nest Gen-4 model, shut down completely in the worst timing possible. None of the quick fixes I had used when testing ...

The budget-friendly Energy Star-certified Google Nest Thermostat is polished and pretty, but it isn’t a true smart thermostat, at least not like its older sibling, the Google Nest Learning Thermostat, ...

The rollout of Matter across Google’s ecosystem has been relatively quick, and now the company is bringing support to another device. The 2020 Nest Thermostat is adding Matter support, with the ...

When it debuted in 2011, the Nest Learning Thermostat wasn’t the first internet-connected thermostat, but it defined the technology for many people: The Nest was the iPhone of thermostats, and in fact ...

A refurbished third-generation Nest Learning Thermostat was one of the first things I picked up upon moving into my first house last month. As a longtime New York City apartment dweller, I’d largely ...