Change the temperature to update the thermostat schedule

Nest Sense uses Auto-Schedule to automatically create a comfortable temperature schedule from the changes you make to the temperature in your home or business.

How Auto-Schedule works

Auto-Schedule uses a series of algorithms and weighted pattern-recognition to create a temperature schedule. At first, every adjustment you make is incorporated into the schedule, but over time your Google Nest thermostat will only incorporate patterns of changes.

Your thermostat listens attentively to your temperature changes at first. But later on, when your schedule is set and initial learning is complete, you’ll need to make adjustments on more than one day to have an effect.

For example, if you start getting up half an hour earlier and adjust the thermostat each day, your thermostat will soon learn this new pattern and automatically change what time it turns on your system.

Important things to know

• Auto-Schedule chooses temperatures that have been set by a person at least once.
• If you make similar adjustments a couple days in a row, Auto-Schedule will match these adjustments to one another and create temperature set points accordingly.
• Auto-Schedule uses pattern-matching to determine if that’s what you want on each day, each weekday, or the same day each week.
• Temperature changes you make on the thermostat or in the app have exactly the same effect on the schedule.
• If you don’t like the temperature that your thermostat is set to, you can either teach your thermostat a new schedule by turning the ring a few times until it learns, or make manual adjustments to the schedule.
• Manual changes you make to the schedule won’t be affected by Auto-Schedule.

For more details about how your thermostat can automatically create a schedule for you, check out our article about how Nest thermostats learn.