How to set up and install the Nest Temperature Sensor

Connecting your Google Nest Temperature Sensor to the Nest app and your thermostat is simple. And then is installing information technology, but there are some important things to know about where exactly to place your sensor.

Follow these steps to prepare and install your temperature sensor:

Annotation: The Nest Temperature Sensor is just compatible with the Google Nest Thermostat Eastward and Google Nest Learning Thermostat. Employ the Nest app to connect your sensor to your thermostat and change its settings.

1. Add the sensor to your business relationship

  1. Tap theSettingsNest settings icon icon on the Nest app home screen.
  2. TapAdd together Product.

  3. Scan the QR code located on the Nest Temperature Sensor'southward battery pull tab. Your app will add the sensor to your account.

    Tip: If you've already removed the battery pull tab, insert a coin in the slot on the back of your sensor and turn to unscrew the backplate. You'll find the QR code inside. If yous need help, tapEvidence me how in the Nest app when trying to browse the QR code.

  4. Remove the battery pull tab.
  5. Option a spot for your sensor and choose a thermostat to associate it with. The Nest app will exam the connection to brand sure you've chosen a spot that will work.
  6. Choose a room proper noun for your sensor.

Troubleshooting adding your sensor to your account

2. Where to place or mount your sensor

Earlier you install your sensor, there are some important things y'all should know about exactly where to place information technology, and where not to.

Depending on where y'all identify your sensor, your system might have to work longer and use more than energy to keep y'all comfortable.

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It's best to put your temperature sensor:

  • In a room where you spend a lot of time, such as your bedroom or living room. Your sensor will then exist able to tell your thermostat to alter the temperature based on the room where yous are.
  • Well-nigh breast loftier. Air is generally warmer near the ceiling and cooler near the floor. If you install the sensor as well high or too low, your system may overheat or overcool the room considering it's responding to the wrong temperature.
  • Within a maximum of 50 anxiety (15 m) of your thermostat, then the sensor and thermostat can communicate wirelessly. You may need to place them closer together because the wireless range tin be reduced by walls, floors, appliances, furniture and other electronics.

Tip: Go on in listen that even in the same room, the temperature will exist unlike on a high shelf versus a low table, so choose a location that makes sense in your home. Also, different rooms tin can be warmer or colder based on the number of windows, the orientation, or ceiling peak.

Do not place your temperature sensor:

  • Nearly heat sources such as vents, stoves, or hot h2o pipes.
  • Outside.
  • On or near a window or other uninsulated surface (such as a brick wall) that can get much warmer or cooler than the room.
  • In straight sunlight.
  • In a partly or completely enclosed location where the air may non circulate plenty. For example, avoid placing your sensor behind a painting, in a cupboard, inside a vase, or behind books on a bookshelf.
  • In rooms that are much colder or hotter than the rest of your home, such every bit the basement or cranium. The temperature difference can cause your thermostat to heat or cool the rest of your home to an uncomfortable temperature.
  • Too high or besides low in a room. Place it about breast loftier.
  • Outside of the zone the thermostat is controlling, if you take a system with ii or more thermostats: you can use the app to reassign the thermostat your sensor is continued to.
  • The Nest Temperature sensor is non designed for employ inside or around any appliances in your home, such every bit refrigerators, stoves, microwaves or televisions.

Important: Exercise not paint or cover your Nest Temperature Sensor.

Other rooms where a sensor tin can help

  • Babe'southward room: A sensor in the babe'southward room can help brand sure the room is at an ideal temperature.
  • Bedrooms: A sensor in your sleeping room tin aid go along your room comfortable while you sleep.
  • Extra large rooms: Very large rooms may not heat or cool as quickly as the rest of the business firm. A sensor in an extra large room can help keep yous more comfortable.

How to place temperature sensors in zoned systems

Zoned systems use multiple thermostats to control heating and cooling in unlike areas or floors in the home.

  • If you lot have a zoned organisation, make sure you place your temperature sensors in the same zone as the thermostat they're connected to. For example, if your thermostat controls the kickoff floor of your home, make certain to identify your sensor on the starting time floor.
  • If you place a sensor outside of the thermostat zone, the zones in your home volition probably be also hot or common cold. Your system may use more energy than you look, and it will as well probably non start or finish when yous await it to.

Note: You can connect a sensor to more than than 1 thermostat. Nevertheless, we only recommend this setup if you have one Nest thermostat that only controls heating and one that simply controls cooling.

3. How to install your sensor

The Nest Temperature Sensor is wireless and piece of cake to install. You have two options:

Option 1: Place it on a apartment surface

The sensor has a rubber pes on the bottom then it volition sit on a flat surface, like a shelf, without sliding around.

Option 2: Mount it on a wall

Install the screw where yous want and hang your sensor using the screw hole on the dorsum. Nest screws are peculiarly designed so y'all shouldn't demand to drill a pilot hole for almost installations. You may demand to drill a airplane pilot if you're mounting your sensor on a hard surface.

Tip:Before mounting your sensor, you may want to use it for a week or two to make sure it's working well in its location. This way, you won't leave a spiral pigsty in the wall if you need to motion it.

4. Sensor options

How to utilize your sensor to only monitor the temperature

In order for your sensor to control your thermostat, you need to set a schedule or manually select a sensor for your thermostat to utilise. If you lot don't, your sensor volition still report a temperature to your thermostat, but it won't command when your thermostat turns on or off.

You'll still be able to monitor the temperature of your sensor by selecting your thermostat from the Nest app habitation screen. You can meet all the sensors that written report to your thermostat and what temperature they're reporting. The sensor with the filled-in dot is the active sensor.

Yous might want to monitor the temperature without using it to control the thermostat in a room that'south not used ofttimes, like an office or invitee bedchamber.

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