NEST thermostats are pretty effective when it comes to having a smart learning thermostat, allowing you to have the best connectivity with your home temperature at all times even when you are away from your home. This way, you can turn on your heating or cooling with a single tap on your mobile device and it will have reached the right temperature to comfort you when you return home after a hard day at work.
Although, the readings are pretty accurate on the NEST thermostats as it learns according to the needs of your household and your comfortable temperature settings, you might be getting some messages on the thermostat like colling in 2+ hours and that can be pretty alarming for you to see. Here is all that you need to know about the message to make the full use of your thermostat.
Nest Showing Cooling 2+ Hours Message
1) The Thermostat Is Still Learning
The first and foremost possibility that you will need to check on if it is saying 2+ hours to cool is because you might have recently installed it at your place. Now, if you have just installed it and it hasn’t been a week since then, there is nothing that you would need to worry about.
The message appears on the screen and it would mean that your thermostat is still trying to learn how long it would take for your home to be cooled down. During the early days, your thermostat will calculate how much it takes to reach your comfortable temperature and might show some readings and ETAs that might not be accurate.
Let it do its job for a few days and it will adapt to all the habits and comfort zone of yours. You will certainly be enjoying the best of your NEST thermostat in no time at all.
2) After A Reset
The thermostat doesn’t control your AC and it will only show you what time it would take for your AC to reach the optimal temperature and get it working for you. So, what time you might be seeing on the screen is just a calculation.
If you have recently reset the thermostat to its default settings, it might take a few days again to be reset perfectly and that is what you need to know. Let it sit there for a while and you will be able to get the right timings on the thermostat easily.
3) Software Update
Software updates are another thing that can mess up the timing on your thermostat and you will need to fix that as well. If your firmware on the thermostat was updated recently, you don’t need to worry at all as it will take some days again and your thermostat will be as accurate as it can be.
Also, if it has been some time since you have updated the software on your thermostat, and you are seeing such error. It is time that you update the software and that way you will be getting it fixed perfectly.