Nestle for Windows Phone allows you to use Cortana to control your Nest thermostat

Looking for a Nest app on Windows Phone? And so you should check out Nestle for Windows Phone. It'southward a relatively new app in the Windows Phone Store and comes to us from the developer behind weather app Blue Skies. Nestle for Windows Phone allows you to command your Nest thermostat or Nest carbon monoxide/fume detector.

Google bought Nest before this twelvemonth, so nosotros're not exactly expecting any official Nest apps on Windows Phone someday shortly. That said, there are official NEST APIs that developers can apply to build apps. That's what we have hither, an app for Windows Telephone using official Nest APIs that helps to enable cool features like using Cortana to modify the temperature in your business firm.

Here'due south the full list of features currently bachelor in Nestle:

View your Nest Thermostat or Nest Protect
Alter the temperature with a quick left or right swipe
Change HVAC mode on your thermostat
Set abroad manner on/off
Cortana integration for changing temperature (currently merely for first thermostat) and setting away condition
Individually pivot transparent live tiles for each of your devices
Toast notifications for Nest Protect warnings and emergencies (Nest API doesn't support push notifications and so it's not instant)

Some other limitations of the Nest API: the app doesn't have the power to come across free energy usage, the schedule or add devices straight from the app. Hopefully the Nest API adds those features in the future and we'll meet them added to apps like Nestle.

Those omissions aren't likewise bad though, because we gain some unique features for Windows Phone that you won't observe on Android or iOS. Namely Cortana integration so you tin change the temperature or set your abroad status and the ability to pin Live Tiles to your Start screen. Each Nest device in your house tin be pinned to your Start screen with Nestle.

We don't take a Nest device around to test out the app, simply nosotros figured information technology would be worth highlighting for those of you with Nest devices in your house. In that location are a handful of tertiary-party Nest apps in the Windows Telephone Store, though do try out Nestle and meet how information technology works for you.

Nestle will be advert-costless for anyone who downloads the app within the week. And then it wouldn't injure to download in case you want to somewhen buy a Nest production.

Get the app and let the states know what you think!