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I concur on the learning schedule thing, I suspect it is very much designed for people who keep rigid lifestyles, I work from a log cabin in the garden, so it gets very confused whether I am there or not. The one benefit I found is that it is lot easier to program than a standard stat. Oh and ours links to our smoke alarms, so will switch off the boiler if it detects any issues which is nice to know.
Sam_w
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I've been fairly unimpressed by our Nests. We've ended up using them like standard programmable stats as the learn-my-schedule functionality invariably leaves you with a pattern of use you probably don't want (just because I stayed up till 2am last Thursday doesn't mean I will do that perpetually etc). The home/away assist is not exactly geofencing but it is a reasonably effective way to ensure your heating goes off if you leave home during an 'on' period. Nests can be either wall-mounted or on a stand plugged into the wall; the latter can obviously be moved and they have a small internal battery so it doesn't reset when you do so.
What about this: https://www.ecobee.com/ecobee4/