I am using a Nest, and it is accessible for routine changes in temperature and mode of operation, but more advanced features and options (especially time scheduling) are not accessible. Also, if the Nest is having a problem in accessing your wifi network (along with the initial setup of access to your wifi network) requires a sighted person to directly enter info into the Nest thermostat.
This being said, if you have a good relationship with a friend or your hvac installer, it could be that this only needs to be done once and from then on you could manipulate things fine via Echo and/or the Nest app. The Echo has some built-in Nest commands, but just want to make others aware that there are skills (such as one named Thermostat), which you can run even while using the built-in commands, which offer additional functionality in controlling the Nest. The Thermostat skill for instance offers the "check status" command which will tell you what the temperature is at the thermostat, and what it is set to; it can also be asked about the humidity level. A friend of mine uses an Echobee thermostat instead of a Nest, because he says it integrates better with the Echo (but I don't know anything about it, and he's not that close of a friend where I can ask him a lot of questions). There are a lot of home automation products which integrate with the Nest, using it's detection of your "home" or "away" status to cue them off as to what to do and when to do it, so the Nest offers real advantages; you can check these out by working through the nest.com web site and going through their "works with Nest" database. The Nest Protect smoke detector is also a very nice device, one reason is that it speaks any alarm condition instead of making beep sounds (it may say "a little smoke in the kitchen" for instance). It also integrates with the Nest thermostat to help it know when you're home (if you buy the one wired into your electric power). It also lights up a bright light if there's smoke detected. Hth, Chip -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, September 05, 2016 5:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: VoiceOver and/or Amazon Echo Accessible Wi-Fi Thermostat As far as I know Nest maybe the only one to be used with an iOS app and the Amazon Echo. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 8:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VoiceOver and/or Amazon Echo Accessible Wi-Fi Thermostat I don't have one myself but the thermostats from Radio Thermostats at http://www.radiothermostat.com/ have been discussed on this list before with positive comments. On 02/09/16 16:17, Mauricio Molina wrote: > Hi All, > > I realize that the discussion of accessible thermostats has been discussed in > the past, but I would like to bring this topic up again. Is anyone on this > list using an accessible Wi-Fi thermostat that they would recommend? I am > aware that Honeywell and Nest make Wi-Fi thermostats, though I am not sure if > their iPhone apps are accessible. Also, at least for me, the best case > scenario is a Wi-Fi thermostat that has a VoiceOver accessible app and can > also be used by the Amazon Echo. With this said, app accessibility is the > priority. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > Mauricio > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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