Learn about the Nest Home Report

The beginning section of the Home Report will feature an estimate of how many kilowatt hours all Nest thermostats have saved to date since October 2011. Energy savings are calculated based on the typical percentage of heating and cooling savings found in multiple real world studies of the Nest thermostat (download the energy savings study in PDF format). To calculate the total savings for each month, these savings percentages are applied to the actual heating and cooling hours of all Nest thermostats during the month.

You may also find a reference to energy savings or pollution reduction.

Note: Energy savings are an estimate, not a guarantee that you will save energy.

This section changes every month and contains information that you might find interesting about Nest and your home. It gives you tips about how to use features, new products, energy savings, and safety.

This section will feature recent content from Nest that would be interesting to you. This may include company news, information about Nest features, or stories about Nest customers.

Instead of Kudos, you may find Alerts if you’ve had a safety event such as a Heads-Up in the last month, or if the batteries are low in your Nest product.

If your Nest thermostat notices that your furnace turns off when it should be heating, there may be a problem with your system. You’ll get a Furnace Heads-Up alert in the app and on your thermostat so you can test your system and schedule a service appointment with an HVAC pro, if needed. You should also find a summary at the top of your Home Report for the month that the Heads-Up happened.

Note: If you’ve already taken steps to address the problem, this alert will still appear in your Home Report for the month. This doesn’t mean there’s still a problem, but it’s just a reminder in case you haven’t yet taken steps to try and address the alert.

At the top of the Home Report, it'll let you know if a full month of data from your thermostat has not been received. If that’s the case, Nest should make its best guess at how many hours of heating and cooling you used and show as much of the Home Report as possible.

If you had your Nest thermostat connected to the app for two full months, Nest should do a quick comparison of this past month to the previous one. This allows you to check if your system has been on more or less this month.

If you had your Nest thermostat connected to the app for only one month, then only the heating and cooling information should appear for that month.

Hours of cooling are blue, hours of heating are orange. If your thermostat is missing all of last month's data, a broken bar will be displayed for the previous month and no usage numbers.

The Home Report shows why you use more or fewer hours of heating or cooling in a month. It highlights some factors that make the biggest impact on your energy use. This appears on occasion when there’s enough information to explain the change.

Nest considers many reasons for energy use changes. These include:

• The weather.
• Changes made to your schedule.
• Your manual temperature adjustments.
• Eco Temperature settings and use.
• Airwave.
• Turning your thermostat off.
• Adding another thermostat.
• The number of days in a month, and more.

Check the icon on your thermostat to find out how and why it affects your energy usage. Refer to the table below for more details.

	Weather As the weather changes, you naturally use more or less heating or cooling, even if you don’t adjust your thermostat. With the same schedule, a Nest thermostat might never turn on the heat in spring, but it might turn on 12 hours a day to keep you warm during winter.
	Schedule Changes to your schedule may cause your energy usage to change compared to the previous month. If your energy use is higher or lower because of a change to your schedule, you might find this reason listed in your Home Report. Tip: Your schedule can change if you add or remove a setpoint, or if your Nest thermostat automatically learns a new setpoint using Auto-Schedule.
	Manual adjustments It’s considered a “manual adjustment” whenever you change the temperature using your thermostat or the Nest app. The Home Report compares the manual adjustments you made last month to the ones you made this month.
	Eco Temperatures If you change your thermostat to Eco Temperatures, it may cause your energy use to change from the previous month. Tip: Choosing energy efficient Eco Temperatures can help you save energy.
	Home & Away Your thermostat can automatically switch to Eco Temperatures to help save energy when no one’s home.
	Off If your Nest thermostat is off, it won’t heat or cool your home unless your Safety Temperature is reached. If you’ve saved energy this month by turning your thermostat off, you’ll find this reason in your Home Report.
	Added a Nest thermostat If you add another Nest thermostat to your home, you’ll get twice the energy information. This extra energy information might make it look like your energy use has gone up. This icon will appear so you know that you haven’t necessarily used more energy, just that your thermostats notice more of it.
	Calendar days Every month doesn’t have the same number of days. Between January (31 days) and February (28 days), you can heat your home for the same number of hours each day, and you will still end up using less energy in February than January.

This section tells you how many Nest Leafs you’ve received this month. If you’ve received more Leafs than a majority of Nesters, this information should also be displayed.

Learn about the Nest Leaf

If you have a Nest Protect, you’ll get a summary of your safety history that shows you information about Heads-Up and Emergency Alerts you’ve had, and as well as tests you’ve run. At the top, you’ll find icons for the smoke and carbon monoxide sensors, as well as battery levels and Wi-Fi connectivity. The icons should be green if everything’s ok, and yellow when something needs your attention. Check the Nest app for more details.

Nest Home Report Protect alerts

Here, you’ll find a checklist of the battery status, Wi-Fi connectivity, and sensor status for all your Nest Protects. The status for battery and sensors is from the last day of the previous month, and a summary of the month for the connectivity information, so something may have changed since we created this email for you. You can always check the current status of your Nest Protect (and other Nest products) in the Google Home app or Nest app.

How Nest Protect lets you know it's working

You’ll also get a Nest Protect history section if you’ve had any smoke or carbon monoxide events, or if you’ve run a manual test, in the last month. Here you can check the time, location, and cause of everything that happened.