Best way to turn on/off Nest Thermostat

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Hello,

Simple automation that aims to turn off heating if the garden door is opened more than one minute, and turns it on again a minute after it is closed. Nothing crazy.

I appreciate if you can help me with two questions:
1 - This is a Nest Learning Thermostat. I seem to have three options to “turn it off”
There is a Turn Off option, I can set the temperature to something low and I also HVAC mode has an Off option.

Do you have a recommendations for one of these ? I am currently tuning the thermostat off, which works fine, but it sort of goes into a cool off period when I turn it on (i.e. heating doesn’t start although the temperature requires it, screen stays grey and displays a delay countdown, and seems like it says grey after the countdown expires?! What would be the right way to temporarily turn off the heating ?

2 - In this type of scenario, how can I store the previous state of the thermostat ? i.e. if the thermostat is already turned off, I wouldn’t want the automation to turn it on when the door is closed.

Many thanks for any ideas

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I’m guessing you probably want to use this rather than shutting it all the way down. The countdown like you’re describing is a normal safety precaution for both heating and cooling modes (don’t want to short-cycle in cooling and want to fully purge the combustion chamber before heating).

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I do this, but I simply turn it down, not off. That seems to work quite quickly.