Originally Posted By: DWallach
What kills me is that Nest built in some fancy IR and visible light sensors. They have all the information they need to know how much heat the thermostat is absorbing from ambient light. Some poor schmuck just needs to run a bunch of lab experiments to come up with a suitable model.

http://support.nest.com/article/What-is-Sunblock

(Sadly my Nest is sitting in a box. I can't hook it up in my new Seattle apartment due to an incompatible heating system.)