Calida works with Nest

Calida works with Nest$6.04

Rated 4.21/5 (86) —  Free Android application by PromaSoft

About Calida works with Nest

Control your Nest Learning Thermostat®

Nest Home Screen Widget
Wear Smartwatch support with voice control
Built in Nest Automation
Tasker, Locale, Zooper support

Main Features

Approved by Nest https://workswith.nest.com/company/promasoft/calida

Customizable widget with full thermostat control and parameters like the current target temperature, ambient temperature, outside temperature and more.

Google Wear SmartWatch support including voice control alloing you to control the Nest Learning Thermostat® right from your Google Wear SmartWatch

Built in automation allowing you to for instance set you thermostat away when leaving your home, getting notified when the heating turn on and more

Automate your Nest thermostat(s) using Tasker or Locale events and tasks. Note that you do NOT need Tasker to make use of the widget

● Allows you to use Zooper to create your own hand crafted Widgets. Note that you do NOT need Zooper to make use of Calida


Specifications

● Supports all Nest supported HVAC modes, heating, cooling, ventilation and dual temperature systems
● Add any number of widgets
● Supports any number of Nest thermostats you might have in your house
● Supports full Tasker and Locale integration using Tasker events and tasks (Tasker NOT needed to make use of Calida)
● Supports Zooper integration providing you will all relevant thermostat variables (Zooper NOT needed to make use of Calida)
● Supports Google Wear Smartwatches
● Widgets are fully customizable including font sizes
● Google Wear layout is fully customizable including font sizes
● Widget label can be renamed
● Multiple quick action options when touching the widget
- Show control panel
- Quick temperature set
- Toggle home and away
- Toggle fan
- Show widget settings
- Set heating mode
- Set cooling mode
- Set heating/cooling mode
- Set off
● Supports both Celsius (°C) and Fahrenheit (°F) depending on the setting in your Nest thermostat
● Widgets are fully resizable from a 1 x 1 size to full screen on supported devices
● Status bar notification and control for access to your thermostat(s) from any app. Status bar icon can be hidden
● Shows ambient temperature
● Shows target temperature
● Shows humidity
● Shows outside temperature
● Shows home and away states
● Shows leaf indicator
● Shows fan state on supported Nest thermostats
● Shows heating state of your Nest thermostat through the use of colors
● Quickly re-assign another Nest thermostat to the widget


Google Wear usage notes

● Swipe left to choose a thermostat
● Swipe left again to change HVAC mode or home and way state
● Swipe up to increase the temperature
● Swipe down to decrease the temperature
● Double tap to toggle way state
● Single tap to start voice control
● Swipe right to dismiss


Google Wear voice control usage notes

● Single tap on the thermostat
● You can say anything you like. The app will in most cases understand what you are asking.

Some voice command examples

● "Set my Nest to 60 degrees"
● "Set my Office to 60 degrees"
● "60"
● "Set office to away"
● "home"
● "please if at all possible set my office to cool mode"

We can continue endlessly but you get the point.

Built in automation

Conditions

● Enter/Leave GPS fence
● Home/away state changes
● HVAC State changes
● Starts cooling/heating
● Turns off
● Leaf changes

Actions

● Send Notification
● Set Away/Home
● Set fan on/off
● Heat to
● Cool to

Feedback and feature requests

Support, feedback and/or feature requests email to jdvldr@gmail.com

More help

● Works with Nest Store: https://workswith.nest.com/company/promasoft/calida
● Demo movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xI4mReToyc
● Online Help: http://promasoft.weebly.com/documentation.html

How to Download / Install

Download and install Calida works with Nest version 2.7.8 on your Android device!
Downloaded 1,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: com.promasoft.widgetsfornest, download Calida works with Nest.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
Support for Android Nougat 7.1.1
Version update Calida works with Nest was updated to version 2.7.8
More downloads  Calida works with Nest reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
Price update  Price changed from $3.00 to $6.04.
Version update Calida works with Nest was updated to version 2.7.7

What are users saying about Calida works with Nest

U70%
by U####:

The app is by far the best Nest widget I've used yet with a creative pop-up panel to adjust temp and whatnot. I can't adjust where each individual element goes, but the Dev said that's something he'll work on in the future. The Dev is fast to reply, which is always amazing to see. Development has been a little slow for a bit now is the only reason for 4 star.

U70%
by U####:

Works ok, but the excessive battery draining is real showstopper. To bad, because normal battery usage would lift this app all the competition far behind

U70%
by U####:

Love all the features except when I add the widget shortcut and use it to toggle away/home, the away says 0 when it's actually 16.5. Also very hard on the battery.

U70%
by U####:

Works well, but drains the battery. Interface could use some updating.

U70%
by U####:

Not compatible with my device (NVIDA Shield K1, Android 7.0)

U70%
by U####:

Love it, but it sucks the crap out of my battery...

K70%
by K####:

A great app, with a top rate developer.

M70%
by M####:

Dev is not fixing battery drain. Thermostat functionality works. Very unattractive interface. The popup design needs to be updated to material design. It looks very dated and stands out when compared with other apps. This app destroys my battery when it uses GPS for geofencing. A single app consuming nearly 500 mAh of battery in an 8 hour period is not acceptable.

Y70%
by Y####:

When I use "set variable", the tasker plugin doesn't seem to return any data from the thermostat. If I set a tasker variable with data from the calida plugin, the tasker variable gets set to something like "%awaystate" rather than the data from the thermostat. Hope that makes sense

Y70%
by Y####:

It simply doesn't show up the images to select for setting background image.. Please fix this!

P70%
by P####:

Was a great app, till I got a Google Pixel XL and now it's not compatible with my phone. :( Please update app and I'll be glad to change it back to a 5 star.

P70%
by P####:

Overall the app is working great on my one phone.. but when you try to install it on a second phone with a family account, the thermostat doesnt show up.. not sure what i may be missing with that. Goal was to have two phones active and set away/home triggers for each and if one phone is home while the other leaves it remains in home mode.

Q70%
by Q####:

Just installed marshmallow and it won't open, no widget and then periodic crash notifications until I uninstalled it.. shame!

Y70%
by Y####:

Wear app reports no connection. Have to open phone app, then wear app will work for a while. Galaxy s6 and moto 360 v2. Thankfully nest has finally added wear support so I can forge calinda

E70%
by E####:

I love this app but it's killing my battery. It seems to be gps related. Can we get an option to disable gps during certain days/hours?

K70%
by K####:

I mainly downloaded it hoping it would integrate well with Tasker. Seamless. I am very happy with this app. Keep up the great work.

Y70%
by Y####:

Any word on Nougat compatibility?

T70%
by T####:

A few bug has been corrected by dev upon reporting almost immediately. Really responsive developer.

S70%
by S####:

When nest goes into auto away, would it be possible to make the widget disable auto away when we hit the up or down temperature buttons. Instead of having to manually turn off auto away and then hit up or down. Why not make a macro instead of just saying that we cant touch the temp while in auto away?

S70%
by S####:

I drive home and cross the geofence (set to max) in 3 mins, not enough time for Nest to heat up the house

S70%
by S####:

I purchased this app for my Samsung Gear S2 Classic and it may be my ignorance but do all android wearables and Android apps work with each other? If they do, I can't get the calida app to open under the wearable tab b/c it's greyed out, the widget works great but I wanted this for my watch. ..can you help? Will update review upon clarification, thanks! Received an update about supporting the Gear S2, not supported, ; (

F70%
by F####:

Great for Android Wear, can we get support for Samsung Tizen smart watches? Thanks

B70%
by B####:

Other than battery consumption the app does its job well. All of the functionality is excellent and does what a Nest widget should be available to do. The popup design needs to be updated to material design. It looks very dated and stands out when compared with my other apps. This app destroys my battery when it uses GPS for geofencing. A single app consuming nearly 500 mAh of battery in an 8 HR period is not acceptable. Using cell towers is not accurate enough in my location. Could be better.

S70%
by S####:

Wear app reports no connection. Have to open phone app, then wear app will work for a while. Galaxy s6 and moto 360 v2.

X70%
by X####:

The app is by far the best Nest widget I've used yet with a creative pop-up panel to adjust temp and whatnot. I can't adjust where each individual element goes, but the Dev said that's something he'll work on in the future. The Dev is fast to reply, which is always amazing to see.

S70%
by S####:

I have two homes. Two widgets. Always got an hvac error when using second widget but can control it fine in nest. Developer contacts me directly and explains situation but also accommodates me in another way. Turns out nest is less forgiving in api than in their own app. Very happy to understand problem and how to use calida to deal with it. Keep up good work!

D70%
by D####:

A few bug has been corrected by dev upon reporting almost immediately. Really responsive developer.

C70%
by C####:

Please add history tracking and more info options in status bar.

S70%
by S####:

Really liking this widget. Makes all of the nest functions available from my home screen. Now I have all my wink shortcuts and nest widget on one page of my launcher. Thanks!

S70%
by S####:

Had some issues but the developer fixed them immediately. Very responsive dev. So far the app seems to be exactly what my nests have been missing, proper geofencing controls. The fact that the dev cares and communicates on this app is icing on the cake.

S70%
by S####:

Fantastic support, great app!

E70%
by E####:

Easily the best third party app for a smart device I've ever used. Great job, keep up the great updates.

S70%
by S####:

Beautiful on Android wear. Horrible widget on phone tho. But hey. I only got it for the wear support anyway so I'm happy.

N70%
by N####:

This is a great Widget and app for Android Wear. On wear especially, it's more responsive and reliable than the other apps I tried. The only issue I have with it is that you can't pull the data into Tasker on the fly, you have to create a profile that has to be triggered for the variables to pass into Tasker. Smart Thermostat Plugin is much better for use with Tasker tasks, but doesn't include the widget or wear app. For the time being I guess I have to keep both.

S70%
by S####:

Love it, but it sucks the crap out of my battery...

S70%
by S####:

I've been using this app for about a month and have found it simple and thorough for controlling my Nest. Thank you

S70%
by S####:

This is the widget that should have been made by Nest. You can see and adjust temperature from the home screen. I was off put by the price but the reviews seemed good and I had extra money on my account. I do wish to be able to change text color or have text color change as the background would. This would so I could stop using the background and still know what is going on.

S70%
by S####:

5 STARS!! I thought the developer programed this app to perfection. It was the only app worth buying for me ever!!! I have owned androids for most of my life, and i have always thought majority of the paid apps in the playstore is not worth actually paying for... Til Now! I have this widget displayed on my homescreen Tablet along with widgets that controls my lights and wifi cameras in the house. Boom!! I just made myself a DIY Home Control touch screen Relay Switch!

Z70%
by Z####:

I'd be happy to pay for this app. Haven't been in the nest app since I installed this.

Z70%
by Z####:

A great app, with a top rate developer.


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