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