I came home to find a cold house and an unresponsive Nest Thermostat. Fortunately I would a procedure in a forum for rebooting it by holding the button for 30 seconds. It appeared to not work at first, then started doing something a minute or two later. Note that eventually the house did start to warm back up again.

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