My girlfriend has a Nest at her work which saved her last week when the power cycled and the heating system turned off. She was able to restart it from home.
I wouldn't be so thrilled to have a thermostat that requires internet to function at home. Or is that only for those networked features?
It wouldn't have been sufficient to save the buildings pipes in -30°C in a restaurant full of embedded draft lines, however.
Nest did give her control over the entire building's system. IIRC it was actually an employee that shut the system off after a power cycle/outage thinking they were protecting the equipment, but failed to restart it. If she hadn't had the insight the system would have been off all night.
I wouldn't be so thrilled to have a thermostat that requires internet to function at home. Or is that only for those networked features?