When the air conditioner is running during the summer, it may not necessarily be functioning in a way that optimizes your home’s humidity level. With the Nest Thermostat, you can tell your air conditioner to cool your house based on the humidity level, so your house doesn’t feel like a Florida swamp. Most thermostats don’t come with a humidity sensor. If yours does, it likely just serves the purpose of telling you what the humidity is inside your house, and nothing more. The Nest Thermostat, tells you what the indoor humidity is, but it can also cool your house and give focus to the humidity rather than just the temperature that you have it set to. For example, if your air conditioner cools your house to 73 degrees, but the indoor humidity is still really high, your Nest can tell your air conditioner to keep cooling your house until the humidity level goes down to a comfortable level. The only downside is that it might be a bit colder in your house and you’ll spend more money on your utility bill using this method, but if it’s something that you really want, the Nest Thermostat can do it.

Start by opening up the Nest app on your phone and select your Nest Thermostat on the main screen.troubleshooting steps for ac unit On the next page, you’ll see what the humidity is inside of your house. air handling unit valve packageYou want to keep it in between 40-60%. portable ac unit manualAny higher and you could invite the growth of mold, and any lower can dry out your skin and ruin wood furniture. If the humidity is a bit high in your house, your Nest has a feature to deal with this, and you can access it from the settings gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen. On the next page, tap on “Nest Sense”. Next, select “Cool to Dry”. That section will expand and explain what the feature is.