hey Dave Taylor here again and I'm back
in my utility room because of my Rheem
econet performance water heater but I
don't want to talk about the water
heater today I want to talk about the
app so the Eco net includes an eco net
app and what reims done that's super
cool is it now works with the nest
thermostat here's my thermostat and that
means that they use a system called
connects with nest and when you have it
all hooked up it's really pretty awesome
because the nest thermostat
automatically switches to a way mode
when I leave the house now with
everything hooked up my Rheem Econet
water heater will also switch to
vacation mode when I'm not home and as
soon as I walk back in the door then
pull them everything fires back up my
air conditioner or my heater through the
nest system and of course my water
heater then promptly raises the water up
to whatever temperature I like why is
this useful because it saves energy in
fact one of the things that I most like
about this Rheem water heater is the
fact that it does have so many energy
efficient settings and there's so much
it does to try to minimize that sort of
dumb idea of keeping the water nice and
hot when no one's in the house so let me
show you real quick how you go through
and set this up so here we are we're in
the Rheem Econet app and then it gets
easy because you go to settings and in
settings go down and look for works with
nest tap on that and then connect with
nest and of course you will need to have
a nest thermostat already in your house
and already hooked up to the Internet
and everything and so then from there
you log in to your nest account it
connects and you're done and now when I
leave here's what happens is I'm getting
this little warning that's actually not
a warning it's just sort of a message
saying hey check it out we've lowered
the heat in your water heater in
response to an event with the nest now
pay close attention to that dialog box
because there's some other tricks that
Rheem has up their proverbial sleeve
because if the nest protect which is the
smoke system detects any issues or if
there's any any safety issues then the
water heater can now automatically go
into a safe mode which is really great
because you really don't want this thing
chugging away if there's an issue in
your house or you know worst case
scenario your house is on fire your
water heater can actually probably turn
off at that point because you probably
won't be having a shower so lots of cool
stuff and the other thing to notice is
that also support for what they call
energy rush hour and this is another one
of these things that really only smart
homes can have and a smart grid can have
the idea is that at certain times of the
day power is in more demand than other
times and nest working with your local
power company and not all support this
only some but with working with your
local power company your nest is smart
enough to know when you are in one of
these rush hour energy moments and
actually can lessen your use of
electricity and now the Rheem water
heater can do the same so not only is
that a benefit for the overall grid but
most power companies will actually give
you a break or a discount or a rebate if
you actually don't use energy during the
what they say are their rush hours so
this is something where again Rheem and
nest and all these companies are really
coming together to really start giving
us the nuts and bolts that give us a
smart home and I can tell you that I
don't really like to hang out here in my
basement for what are probably pretty
obvious reasons No so far no scary
creatures though that's good I like to
just power all this stuff on set it all
and then forget about it and the fact
that my water heater now can
automatically go into vacation mode and
that just means that it's not heating
the water up anywhere near as much as it
normally would and then goes right back
to regular mode as soon as I walk back
in the house by using the connects with
nest service as awesome is really a
great thing
you know if you have a Rheem water
heater you definitely want to check out
eco net and you want to get this all
hooked up because this is really how we
get into the future so this is Dave
Taylor and I think I might go and test
how hot my water is by having a quick
shower so I'll catch you in my next
video