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Turn wireless receiver into 868mhz repeater

It would help with those (quite a few) people who have range issues.

Allow users to set heating parameters to reduce pipe noises, energy drain, improve normal heaters

During my use of tado equipment I noticed the early start algorithm can start very early, heat the heater to 80 degrees, and occasionally really ask for a lot of power from the heater very quickly.

Especially in older homes/older installations, this can cause issues:

You wake up early when the heater wakes up, even at times you don't want to
A high heater temperature causes radiators that cannot be retrofitted with tado to heat up their respective rooms really quickly and at too high a temperature
The switch from no power to lots of power has a high chance of causing ticking noises in the heating system. Also not fun

These situations can be prevented by allowing users to set parameters in the app (or via the installation menu of the thermostat) so they can be set in the heater via OpenTherm or in the tado system itself.

My previous thermostat (Remeha iSense) allowed for this on my heater (Remeha Tzerra M39), which prevented the above issues that I am now sadly facing again.

I believe adding these parameters should cover most user needs:

Maximum pre-start time (if set at 1 hour, it can only start heating 1 hour before the desired program time
Maximum heating temperatur (sets the maximum heating temperature, say at 60 degrees)
Heating speed (if it should heat quickly, normally or slowly)
Cooling speed (inverse of 3)

Schippie

Manual temperature change via thermostat

Hi guys, it would be great to have possibility to change temperature via thermostat manually by 0.5 degrees. Now it is just one full degree. Sometimes, it is good to use manual thermostat control instead of mobile app (e.g. during internet outage or when your kids want to heat up the room little bit and you dont want them to use mobile app etc.).

I think this feature will make tado thermostat more convenient product.

Thanks for your feedback.

Michal

MK_SK

Wifi only control of Tado Thermostat

We recently suffered a loss of physical landline, resulting in no internet connection.
We had to wait four days for OpenReach to come and replace the broken cable, during which time we had no access to our Thermostat via the App.
We had a bit of a cold snap at the same time and had to go back and forth to the thermostat to get the heating to come on (and adjust temp) outside the programmed times.
It would be ideal to still be able to control the stat from the App when we are at home, with both the App and Phone sharing the same wi-fi network.
Could this feature be enabled, to make the control work over local network when at home, so that any loss of internet does not affect local control of Heating?

Mickrtsm_1

Notification when no remote access

Dont know if anyone else has asked for this.
When there for some reason isn't any remote access to my thermostats, it would be nice to get a notification on my cell phone.

KJUNICORN

Change the "comfortable" temperature of tado

Hi all

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but Tado tells me my room is too cold with 19 degrees and an outside temp of 20 degrees. Can I change my comfortable temperature? :)
Cheers
Vic

Victoroos

Re: [User feedback request] How to turn off my boiler with thermostat and valves? (Global On/Off)

Another for this feature. I only have TRVs, no boiler thermostat at this time. I sent the following as feedback a couple of days ago.

'There needs to be a ‘Summer Mode’ that a user can select in the App when the heating is off during the Summer months. This should open each TRV to maximum to ensure that the valve pins don’t become seized during the warmer Summer months when heating isn’t required and is switched off for several months. This would prevent the TRVs adjusting themselves throughout the Summer trying to maintain a temperature when they can’t possibly do so as the heating is off.'

Skier

”Slow start” feature for less thermal stress

Opening the radiator valve fully with a cold system might cause unnecessary thermal stress on the system (and noise due to thermal expansion). Ramping up the valve for a short time might reduce the stress.

I suggest a feature in line with “early start” called “slow start” to automatically ramp up the opening of the valve for cold systems.

Pum

Options to Limit Early Start

I like the idea of 'early start' and in general I think it works well. However, first thing in the morning there is a limit to how early I want the heating to come on, even if it doesn't get up to temperature in time (e.g. very cold mornings). This is because:
- I would rather just live with it being a bit colder than using energy so early (2 hours early) in the morning
- The boiler wakes me up!

I would like there to be a way of preventing heating in a room (other than frost protection) at certain times.

It could be as simple as adding an option under the advanced options (where geofencing is) that you can use to enable / disable early start. This would mean that if a subsequent time block had a higher heat level than current, the heating would only come on earlier if early start was true in this block.

Alternatively, you could create an optional value for early start so you could specify the how much earlier than the required temperature time, early start would be permitted to kick in (e.g. max 1 hour early).

silverShnoop

Allow for a second internet bridge in a home setup in order to improve coverage throughout the house

Currently, I'm having quite a hard time to find a spot in my house for the internet bridge that makes sure all my tado stuff (Smart Thermostat, Smart Radiator) connects reliably.

It would be very useful to have a way to extend the reach of the tado network, for example by being able to add a second internet bridge, so it's easier to achieve full coverage everywhere.

Please enable this, it would make full use of tado products possible even in more 'difficult'. homes.

Schippie