Any way to boost hot water?

[Spanky2k]

Hi!

Great work on this addon; it'll make my Nest Thermostats so much better. One question though; my Nest controls both the room temperature and the hot water. I'd love to be able to tell Siri to "boost the hot water for an hour", replicating the in-app functionality. I've tried various commands but I can't seem to get it to control the hot water. Is this something that could be added if it's not already in?

Thanks!

[simonrb2000]

Second that!

[jbredcar]

Second that too. I use Nest v3 for my hot water now.

[thoukydides]

Unfortunately the official Nest API does not support control of hot water. There do not appear to have been any updates to the API since the 3rd generation thermostat was launched. Presumably because it is a UK-only model so there isn't sufficient demand to support it properly.

However, a few people have reverse-engineered the API used by Nest's iOS/Android app which obviously does support this functionality, e.g. https://github.com/rdiver/nest-php-api-hot-water. This API connects to https://home.nest.com instead of https://developer-api.nest.com.

This unofficial API could be used to add hot water control via HomeKit, either via an extension (fork) of this plugin, or as a supplementary plugin...