Grey scale colour coding in V2 Climate-report bar chart?

dcweather

There is no key that I can see for this. So is white boiler off, light grey low demand, mid grey medium and dark grey maximum heat demand, equivalent to each of the one, two or three filaments showing at any given time in the room graphic?

eezytiger

Note : I am using V3 (or is it V3+?) but here are my observations. I do have a memory that the behaviour changed some time ago, maybe a couple of years ago, but for today….

Looking at my own heating graph for a room it is clear that the brightest tones correspond with the highest heating request and the darkest tone means heating is off. This is fairly obvious from the temperature profile of the graph. Also, if you click and hold within the graph you will see from zero to three wavy lines, again indicating the strength of heating demand at any moment in time.

Looking at my own graph last night for the lounge, you can see that dark grey is where the heating is off and the room is cooling. There is a little boost of heat around 04:30 to maintain a 16C target overnight. Then the heating comes on fully at 07:00 as the heating comes on for daytime temperatures.

Personally I think that a coloured graph would be better than a grey scale e.g. grey, green, amber, red progression or blue, green, amber, red. But maybe that would be problematic for the colour blind. Still, shades of grey are hardly ideal either.

dcweather

Thank you for replying. So it seems at some point they have completely reversed the colour coding !! (Why would they do that? Maybe to separate the white background from the very pale off I guess although there is a line). So as you can see below mine is pure white = background, slightly off white =off, palest grey = 1 bar of heat demand, mid grey = 2 bar and dark grey = 3 bar. The orange is the half hour of hot water early in the morning.So they could have done all colour as you suggested which would be much clearer and nicer. Blue for off, yellow, orange and red.(which would also work for colour blind, I believe as it would just change intensity). Of all the clever stuff they can do this would be a 5 minute job for a programmer - even I could probably do it!
Thanks again, Dave

eezytiger

Ah! The grey scale is reversed when you switch between dark and light display modes. Here's my living room again, this time with light appearance instead of dark...

Now the palest grey is off where the darkest grey is full heating. I think dark mode was a feature added after I first installed Tado. Hence the reversal of the shades. I prefer dark mode for my eyes and battery life on my OLED displays.

Obviously all of this nonsense could have been avoided with colour coding instead of shades of grey.

dcweather

Aha, that explains it. 👍️ Don't know if I have that feature but will look as it is clearer to see i think. Good to see you are running at a lower temperature than me but I'm probably a lot older than you!

eezytiger

I'm 62. Partner is 71. 😁