Home/Away (Geofencing) not starting heating until the person actually arrives home
Hi,
Recently installed a Tado X system and the home/away seems problematic.
On the previous Nest system we had, Home/Away detection worked out how long it would take to heat the home, and when it detected you were on the way home (from past activity, e.g., it's a weekday, and you're at work, and now you're leaving and heading towards home) it would start the heating so the house would be up to temperature when you arrived home.
Tado doesn't seem to be doing this, and only turns the heating on AS you arrive home, so you arrive home to a cold house until it has warmed up (and that takes a while in a large house!)
Is there a way of improving this, does it "learn" on its own and will get better? Or do I need to set a massive geofence area so it comes on at least 15 minutes before arriving home, but then have to deal with it not going away if going out of the house for a few hours but staying somewhat locally?
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That feature has existed for years in V2 and V3 but is missing fron X. Search here for "early start", there's a few discussions on the subject.
Here's one.
https://community.tado.com/en-gb/discussion/comment/92447#Comment_92447
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As tulloch's mentioned, this basic feature is missing from Tado X.
From some of the posts I've seen on the forum, it was mentioned that whatever features were available on the old system, they may be eventually brought over to Tado X.
As per geofencing, the maximum radius for it to operate is 2 miles (I think), so this temporary work around won't be any good ..1
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Thanks for the answers both, dissapointing to say the least.
Looks like it's time to bust out some HomeAssistant automations until they can get their act together.
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