With the warmer weather condition finally arriving, many households are switching their thermostats from heating to cooling. Here's how to do it on the Nest Thermostat.

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The Nest Thermostat allows you to control and manage the device remotely from your smartphone, and it fifty-fifty comes with learning capabilities that can learn your habits and patterns and eventually automatically adjust the thermostat for you. Withal, sometimes information technology can be the littlest of features that are hard to find.

Instance in point: how do you lot switch the Nest Thermostat from heating to cooling, or from cooling to heating at the turn of the season? It's actually really simple and you tin can do it from either the Nest app or on the Nest Thermostat unit itself.

From the Nest App

Open up the Nest app on your phone and select your Nest Thermostat from the main screen.

Down in the lesser-left corner, tap on "Heat". Information technology may likewise say "Cool" depending on what you already accept information technology gear up at.

A pop-upward will appear, giving you several options. If you want to switch to your air-conditioning, tap on "Absurd".  If you want to switch to heating, tap on "Heat". You lot can as well plough off your Nest Thermostat from hither, and there's even a setting where y'all can choose both Estrus and Cool at the same time. (Nosotros'll discuss that more than in a minute.)

When you switch from Estrus to Cool, the thermostat's set temperature will automatically jump to a higher setting, and from there you can suit it as needed. It volition do the reverse when you switch from Cool to Heat, going down to the last temperature you had it set at before you switched it to Cool.

When you switch to "Heat-Cool", the Nest Thermostat will automatically turn on the furnace or the air conditioner whenever either is needed, rather than merely having 1 or the other enabled at any one fourth dimension.

Using this setting, you tin set a temperature range that you want to keep your firm between, and the Nest Thermostat will take care of it all automatically without needing to manually switch back and forth between Heat and Absurd.

On the Nest Thermostat

Switching from Oestrus to Absurd and vice versa uses the same method in the app, but plainly it'southward a bit unlike on the smaller screen of the Nest Thermostat.

Press on your Nest Thermostat unit to bring upwardly the primary bill of fare.

Apply the silver scroll cycle and become to "Thermostat". Push on the unit of measurement to select it.

From in that location, gyre and select either "Estrus", "Cool", "Heat-Absurd", or "Off", merely like y'all would in the Nest app.

The "Heat-Absurd" setting can be great for when the seasons are just changing, significant that it's getting warmer outside, only there are still days where information technology can get cold (and vice versa in the fall). Because of this, the Heat-Cool setting keeps yous from having to constantly switch back and forth between heating and cooling when the weather is kind of unpredictable.