GOOGLE Nest provides many smart products that can make your house feel like more of a home.
However, one couple has found their Google Nest thermostat is creating more issues than solving them.
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Reddit user u/AlternativeSherbert9 explained how her Nest thermostat is causing problems between her and her husband.
She wrote on Reddit that she’s a 35-year-old female who is on a few different medications that make the cold unbearable for her.
Her 33-year-old husband apparently likes it cold, so they decided to get a Google Nest thermostat to compromise.
The Reddit user explained: “I got a nest thermostat to help alleviate the problem, thinking it might help since they are supposed to be ‘smart.’
“Well all it does is ‘learn’ that he loves it cold. It can’t learn appropriate adjustments because he comes home before me and cranks it way down, when in reality he should just allow the nest to do it’s job and cool how it’s ‘learned’ to do so.
“I have bought him a floor fan and cooling blanket he can use so I can have it an appropriate temp for me in the house and it still seems like it’s always set to 70 or 71.”
The wife is now threatening to lock her husband out of the Google account.
Although she said she struggles with a medical condition that leaves her in pain if she’s cold, a lot of commenters took her husband’s side.
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One Reddit user replied: “Why are you ‘infuriated’ that he adjusted the air when you were out of the house instead of just, I don’t know, calmly turning it to 73?
“Why should he be at an uncomfortable temperature when you’re not even home?”
Another said: “Your threats to remove him from the app are also very concerning.
“You don’t get to dictate his access to home appliances. This is tough, it sucks that neither of you can really be comfortable, but you come off as somewhat controlling over this issue.”
However, other comments were more sympathetic and agreed that the thermostat should be set to the preference of the wife, and not the husband.
