This works! I see this video is a couple years old. But, Nest told me this exact way, and it’s been perfect ever since! I, like you, have different work schedules. I love that I can now control everything how I want manually, or through my phone when I’m away! 👍🏾

My husband and I just followed your instructions because we want our temperature to stay at the same temperature as well especially in the summer! Thanks for the information and good luck everyone with yours.

Had no problems following your directions and it totally solved my issue with wanting manual control. Thanks so much! Grandma

It’s much easier to go into manual mode with the app. (Perhaps this video is over one year old and people weren’t using the app back then) You press settings, go to auto schedule and turn it off, go back to settings press the calendar and delete all the little bubbles that have been pre-scheduled. That’s it! 👍🏼

Late to the nest "manual" party 😏, but THANKS FOR THIS INFO 👍👍👍! Tried this method because I was having same issue 😡😤. Will report back after observations. Update: working for me!!

Just did this earlier this morning based on online guidance, not from NEST. Working so far.

Thank you. I was waking up in the middle of the night and adjusting the Nest. I presume it believed that because there was no motion to needed to go to ECO mode, with different high & low setpoints than I had entered. There is snow outside, has been and internal temperatures in the low 40℉s do not work. Found this post and we now like the Nest. I was getting ready to replace it with 1 year before failure thermostat. Now it maintains the set point ± 2.0℉.

Thanks for this info My wife has been complaining for about 3 weeks that the heater is broken The house is to cold and the thermostat not working I have been trying to get the house to the right temp But this Dam Nest has a mine of its own Thanks you may have fixed the problem

Thank you for the video and showing us how to turn off the self learning mode. We need to leave our home for 3 days every month and the nest would relearn what our home should be set at. Once home again it would finally have learned where we want it after a few weeks, then we leave for another 3 days. Two of us are disabled and I require life support equipment so the temps varying wildly doesn't make for easy living.

Thanks! Very clear instructions. Nest should hire you. Actually, they need to redesign this thermo. I bought it, because I'm caring for an elderly woman and this had the temp in big #'s and seemed so easy, just turn to the temp. you want. A total mess! I set the AC and left to go some things, came home and she was sweating and close to death. I hope the co. updates the thermo., so it has an "manual mode".

Thanks for the info OP. I updated mine this afternoon. We will see.

I just got my 2nd Nest and it keeps scheduling so I'm glad I found this video. I didn't know you had to reset the schedule. So annoying. I just wanted a thermostat that could be control via voice and phone application.

Exactly my issue. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks from 🇬🇧 It worked! Before it had a mind of it's own.

Thank you. This worked. I actually have control of my house temperature again!

Thank You 🙏🏽🙏🏽. I hope it works, I dont want them controlling my thermostat, i can control it

Thank you! It appears to be working!

Very pleased with this item. Keeps good readings

Just bought it, already looking for a different system. I would like to see who designed this drawn and quartered

Thank you so much! I was going bonkers. For instance the AC would automatically shut off in the middle of the night. Agree with the comment below: overengineered! I also wonder how accurate the thermometer is. My condo gets very cold even when it is supposedly 74. I'll get my own thermometer.

Thanks, Doc. This was driving us crazy.

I'm hoping this works!!! I'm in a rental home and after doing all the things you tried also and having the fan/heat/ac constantly keeps coming on when I want the whole thing off!!!! Heat OFF, AC OFF & Fan off doesn't mean OFF. Crazy frustrating. Yes our bill goes up. So glad to try this and glad I know about it before building our house. It looked cool at first. It's not a smart system it's a stupid system!

Thank you, thank you , THANK YOU!!!!

I've just done that. Does it actually work? I'm using the "Nest Thermostat E" two years after you posted that.

This worked for me! Thank you so much!

Well after doing a ton of research myself I came to the same conclusion, there is no way to override the nest schedule for an extended period of time. Most times I want to use the schedule that I manually set up. But my work shift schedule occaisionally changes for short periods of time and I would like to bypass the nest schedule and run manually. But it really irritates me that the nest will not let me have that option. You can only bypass until the next scheduled change. I have a Honeywell wifi thermostate that easily allowes me to bypass schedule for as long as I need to. Looks like I will be reinstalling that.

Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you Sir.

this fix worked for me !

this has helped loads, but, one other question- whats with pre heating? am i being thick? if i get home and the temp is, say, 9 degrees, i turn it up to 21, it the says preheating and it will be 21 in say 2 1/4 hrs!! i need heat now, so have to just put it onto manual, HEEEEEELP !!!!!

Thanks. This helps my fancy tech frustration

Thank you. This seems to have done the trick for us.

I did these steps today, but the Nest Sense feature under “Should Auto Schedule learn from your adjustments?” It won’t set to No. Every time I go back to Nest Sense, it’s still set at Yes. I want to throw this thing into a river.

I should have stuck with my old round Honeywell with the mercury switch. Having the same complaint as everybody else. Thank you!

Thank you.I just got mine and i was getting pissed that it kept setting to the temps that it wanted and not what i set it to.

I have same problem, thank you 👍👍👍👍👍!!!!!!!

Thanks, Doc! 👍🏼👍🏼😉😉

I did this 2 days ago and it seems to have worked! The thermostat has not changed for 2 days!!!

Omg ty it’s so annoying it turns off all night and all day It’s hot here in Florida 🙈 I’m visiting my daughter and she doesn’t no how to adjust either!!!!! Ty kind sir😊

Thank you it helped

Thanks. I HATE our nest. In AZ, went out for a few hours & came home to 90 degree house. Our dogs were melting.

I hate this POS product... HOW CAN IT BE SO DIFFICULT TO SET THIS PIECE OF CRAP TO A SPECIFIC TEMPERATURE AND HAVE IT HOLD PERMANENTLY?? Computer programmers making life more difficult day by day... It's insanity.

we are frustrated with this also ! it keeps going to 79 at night and we are HOT ! i keep trying to get it to stay at 76 ..we are having pretty hot days here over 100 ....its silly when you spend so much on these items that you think are going to make your life easier , then it does the opposite ! bummed but thabk you Doc im going to do what you mentioned we will see what happens ! thanks for sharing your time ! :)

Just got a Nest, i'm in the UK - had the same problem with it doing its own thing, so turned of the auto and pre-set the temp through out the day. if its too cold or hot i can still turn it up and down. Plus it can not work out the whole of your house temp so will only set the temp in the room you have it, mine is portable, so have moved it to the coldest place and that is the conservatory, where i spend most of my time, then just adjust the radiators TVRs (Thermostats) around the house to try and compensate, but there is heat difference through out the house. Should have just had a thermostat on the boiler, would have saved some money.

Thanks for your help. I followed a similar video yesterday and today the dang thing started doing it's own thing again. I'm worried it won't hold again and this will become a daily thing to do. Ugh... :(

WOw, I want mine to just stay at one temperature all the time. I come home and it's 63 degrees in the house. It's going to be 3 degrees out on Monday, I don't want my furnace to quit on me, haha.

Thank you, thank you!!

My Nest reads 4 degrees higher than the actual temp. It’s causing my AC to turn on constantly, any advice?

To those of you who say "just use the app"...I call bullshit. A simple firmware update to give a "manual" option would be the simplest solution.

I just use the lock feature and set a pin number. So that way it stays on the temp you set and u have to enter your pin to change temp

Over engineered POS. We were in the same boat, Doc.

Thax man 👍

You can do that then go to main screen then go to your schedule and remove all learned preset schedules

I’m having the issue where the best thinks my home temp is one thing and it’s not and turns my heat off. To damn cold in Chicago for that!! Damn you nest

Thanks

I am already looking for an old school mercury bi metal strip t stat I come home it’s 77 I wake up it’s 64 wtf I am sick of this t stat thx for the video a lot faster than talking on the phone

I have done this... does not work... it is motion sensitive. its great waking of from sleeping 7:00 Am - 5:00 Pm to a 78 Degree apartment in the early start of summer in Tx..... Very cooooool....

Can you still use the app?

I followed these steps with high hopes, but it didn't work for me. It's 17 degrees today, and my heat won't stay on. I have to keep turning the temp down below the room temp, then turn it back up to get the heat to kick back on. and it only stays on for a couple minutes. Ready to take a hammer to this thing.

From the first 30 seconds, I don't want this thing. Why would you fuss with it? Manual stats are like $25

I told the pro installer of the Learning Thermostat that I was just using it manually. So he turned off Learn and it did not Schedule my temp changes.

You da man

Going through this now. Bought a house with this installed. On our move in date it refused to keep the A/C on. We were all dying of heat

You can also just put you nest in eco mode and set you heat temp and cool temp.

The Nest Sense Auto-Schedule doesn't stay off when turned off. This is why he first turned it off, then went into auto-schedule and turned that off. BUT, when he went back into the Nest Sense Auto-Schedule, it was on again.

I wonder is the learn feature is best for a 1 person home

I used my laptop to do the same thing, but then I went into the schedule and deleted all of the preset temps to be completely safe... Now it is fully manual.

My AC stops running every time I leave the house. Temp rises to over 80 degrees by the time I return home in the evening and it takes 4-5 hrs to get back down to 70. So damn irritating!

There’s an app for Nest where you can do all this from your mobile device. You can reset the schedule, turn off auto learning among other features. Surprised to see so many complain about the learning mode... If you prefer to keep the temperature fixed...just replace it with a cheap thermostat (I’ve seen ones for $20 or less) - problem “fixed”. You could probably sell your Nest to cover the replacement cost and then some.

The heat stroke victims and frozen pipe victims should do a class action lawsuit for this stupid BS they force on us. THAT might get their attention.

Isn’t there a model with no learning mode ?

I solved this problem by using the steps below: Summer mode- lower the set point as low as possible then open and close windows to maintain a comfortable temperature.

I'm in the same boat. Bought a house with the nest. I've turned off all the automation, the air wave, the sun detect etc, and my fan still runs all the time. I'm almost to the point of replacing it.

That’s the grass guy !

I detest this thermostat. Why can't we just set the temperature that we want to set it to? Hey Nest, time to fire all your engineers.

Our Nest 3rd Generation has been nothing but a source of frustration. Here in Ontario, Canada, temperatures in my room can easily drop down to 16 Celsius during snowy nights in winter (I verified this with a thermometer). I set my Nest thermostat to maintain a constant 23 Celsius around 10pm, and it only maintains that temperature for about an hour before rolling back to its default setting of 17 Celsius for the remainder of the night/morning. I have tried turning every AI enabled learning feature off, and even disconnected it from our Wi-Fi, but to no avail. I would much rather “retro-fit” a tried and trusted Honeywell mercury bi-metallic strip thermostat in place of this product which demonstrates why IoT is an endeavour worthy of being laughed at.

It's a nice looking thermostat but nothing more. I'm already thinking about replacing it and I believe it cost me more money they savings the promised. My wife is working from home so thanks God every 10-15 minutes she can change temperature to 'normal'. Google want freeze us to death ! ;)

ok i will try...i hate this man..like when i sleep the nest automatically cool off cuz pervious days has hotter temp...but I DONT NEED THEM TO DO IT FOR ME JESUS

My Nest actually increased my electric bills. The Nest computer tries to "learn" your schedule but fails to realize that there are people in the house that jack the air down way to cold when you are not home. Then, after it learns what everyone likes, it starts setting the temperatures way to cold ; resulting in high electric bills. So the answer i guess is to lock your family members out of the system so they can't change the temperature.

It work

U also need to go to eco and turn the heat and cool to off. And go back and reset everything.

Shut off the auto schedule feature give you 100 percent control. I’ve had the nest thermostat since the first week it cam out.

My nest I inherited from the previous owners, was a nightmare, I reprogrammed it, but it kept coming on in the middle of the night, for no reason...

Much easier to use the app on your phone

Our schedules are too hectic for this product which is part of our "smart home". Please tell me Doc did this actually work?I'm tired of freezing because the Nest decides to freeze me. Oh and thank you for the video Doc, much appreciated.

just press the button on the receiver!

I'm so confused by this video and some of the comments... I've had a Nest 2nd gen since 2014 and have used it in this 'manual mode' since day 1

Same here also another thing to do is to turn off eco mode cool and heat

My family thought if it was cold they should set it to a very high temperature to make it heat up fast but there is nothing faster than flat out so that is not helpful but worse it causes overshoot to the ridiculous temperature they set so that it got hellish warm. So to defeat this monkey-on-the-controls problem I set control points at 2 hour intervals in the schedule so that whatever changes they make will only have an impact for 2 hours at most. That seems to be working out fine for me. In other words, in the absence of a manual setting, put in enough control points, and you can force it to do whatever you want. That said, one day recently I noticed that it was getting far too hot and when I looked at the thermostat its display said simply MANUAL. I discovered it was set to a constant high temperature of 28 C (82 F). Neither I nor anyone else did that. Fiddling with the app, I got it back into normal operation. However I learned: 1. There IS a MANUAL mode, no matter what they say, however I do not know how to put it into that mode. 2. I believed it got HACKED. So after setting it back to normal operation, I turned on 2-factor authentication, and I am hoping that is the end of the problem. 3. From web searches while tyring to understand what happened, I discovered that these thermostats have a microphone. This sheds some possible light on the Chinese lady acting in an amateurish way who got into Mar A Lago recently with USB sticks etc. Her actiosn seem amateurish, which gives the Chinese state plausible deniability. But if the place uses Nest thermostats, as per the web, it takes 15 sec to upload malware onto them via their USB sockets.

Thank you.... For a product that was created to save energy this waste a huge amount of energy by shutting off our A/C while we are gone for 4 hours and then we spend hours with AC running to take us back to where it needs to be.

My son installed this for me. I hate it but I would not tell him.

No one should ever buy a nest thermostat. Absolute garbage. Thank you for this video

I have repeatedly deleted my schedule and made sure auto schedule is off and it keeps creating a schedule. A schedule that sets heat to high, has us to hot in the winter and costs us money. Nest go to hellllllllll!

I turned mine to “NO” for auto scheduling here just like you say. A week later it was back to “YES”. No one else is touching it! Fuck this stupid product!

Damn it, it just makes me headache.

Going into the app - you can delete the entire schedule -

Nest stinks I have two and they are a huge disappointment I Should have stuck with Honeywell but I bought the KoolAide

To think that a company can find it acceptable to not have a FULLY Manual mode is beyond ludicrous. It just shows how out of touch they are. Remarkable that they've been able to sell this many of them. Mine's coming out upstairs. The downstairs one there's enough foot traffic to keep it from thinking it knows what's best

Thanks Doc! Unfortunately Nest is just literally a piece of over engineered garbage and even after this brilliant idea the stupid machine still auto changes to 25. I wish I never bought this garbage.

So fucking stupid!!!!!!!! I set the air to 72 and I come back and its 78 fucking degrees in the house!!!! I hate this thing!!!