The Big Idea Archive
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In the Netherlands boiler/heater mechanics have to set the water tempature at 60C because of legionella.
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Also to select multiple time-blocks at once to change them with a single edit action.0
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Hi @GrayDav4276,
I currently have one device. I have no problem with the range of the graph, but I would like to see extra horizontal grid lines at each whole degree (so at 18, 19, 20, 21 degrees) instead of only on 18 and 21 degrees.
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I've just tweeted on the tado site (I actually went ahead and created a twitter account just to do this)
I suggest everyone do the same.
I may also look for the tado reviews saying how great they are and tweet to their twitter accounts as well.
Tados excuses about room size and number of valves is ridiculous.
They need to be forced to fix it.0 -
It would be great if the tiles for rooms on the Home display of the app showed if manual control was in effect. If you have a large number of rooms, it is time consuming to go through them all to check. Whilst you’re at it, there is plenty of space on the tiles, so why not show the squiggly lines for heat demand too? That would be quicker to visually assess than the ‘Heating to xxº’ labels IMO.
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I generally have smart schedules set up for each room, but occasionally need to make a change in one room only for that time. I should be able to set to revert to normal after an hour (or some other set time) but right now the only option is another manual change or until the next change in the smart schedule. This would be extremely easy to implement.
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Thanks, but I still don't see why they wouldn't make that an option on the main screen and make it changable at the user's will each time. And, that's only for manual control of the physical device, not for digital control. I really think this makes no sense.
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Allow for grouping rooms to follow same smart schedule.
Can be done with expensive thermometer, but please alow for this even without extra device. I jut want to easily adjust smart schedule for many rooms in one go.
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Being able to get a reminder x minutes after an "Open window detected" is a "MUST HAVE BASIC FUNCTIONALITY".
- You should be able to configure it in the app to remind yourself after a set time of you own choosing.
- You should be able to configur you own reminders and/or actions with IFTTT.
Current way it works, where the open window is detected, heat turned off for 15 minites, but then turns on heat at full throttle if outside temperature is significantly lower than the set temperature is UNACCEPTABLE!
Forget an open window once a week for a couple of hours when its freezing outside and Tado blasts away any energy savings it gives you.
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@GrayDav4276 Para 2 above is an eye-opener for me - thanks. Had always assumed it was tado selecting whatever time it fancied!!
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Thanks @GrayDav4276. That answers it.
Sorry for my screwing up the lingo!
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Bump.
This is stupid. I want to set the temperature higher than 25 in the bathroom, swimming pool and sauna.
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Mentioned the same suggestion more than a year ago in the Dutch community. But till now I have the same issue and no real development. But the more people will let Tado know, hopefully this will set some wheels in motion.0
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Hi Tado team,
First of all thank you for the great product. I really enjoy it - it’s great! And yet I have a suggestion to improve it by adding geofencing per family member assigned to each own room.
It would be fabulous if some rooms go automatically in anti frost mode when a family member who lives in that room left the house.
Right now I need to adjust their smart schedule manually to low temperature till a family member who lives there returns home.
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This is already possible. The hot water can be switched on directly from the icon on the home page, and to turn on the heating you only need to change one thermostat or TRV, not all of them.
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I asked the same question recently and was told that it isn’t possible out the box, but if it’s switched by a low power relay then it should be fine - as you’ve discovered.
That said, I do feel Tado should not limit themselves to gas/oil based heating systems - most new build homes in the EU these days have to use green heating by law (ie. electric as a basic green solution), so for Tado to stay relevant they need to be providing solutions for electric components.
Another possible product: a temp sensor and 230v 15A wall mount relay, that fits a standard size pattress box and appears as a standard Tado device but also can be used to switch underfloor heating/electric rads/etc.0 -
Currently the approach of using a single device as a Measuring Device for each room is flawed and limited.
Quite often the temperature at my TRVs is lower than at my Thermostat because they are near external windows, whilst my Thermostat is nearer to a fireplace, so is often reading a higher temp than might be correct in the middle of the room, for example.
I could move the thermostat but would prefer not to due to convenience, and not being able to find a good place that reads a realistic value. I could use Offset settings to fake the sensor’s reading, but the weather and my fireplace are not consistent offsets, so this isn’t feasible.
Neither the Thermostat or TRV readings alone are very accurate as both are subject to these occasional and unpredictable fluctuations. Being able to select more than one device, and have Tado use an average of all those device’s sensors to decide what a room’s temperature is would provide a much more accurate and realistic setup.
Surely, the more sensors there are in a room, the more accurate and informed the energy savings can be?0 -
I use the early start feature on a number of rooms but would like to disable it at certain times I.e. I would like it on in the morning but not in the evening. Would it be possible to have the early start assigned to a time zone rather than a heating zone?
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to turn on the heating you only need to change one thermostat or TRV, not all of them.
Please explain against the issue 'ability to turn off all heating'
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Yes, please. Totally agree this would be a VERY helpful feature, ensuring many houses pipes during winter.
Optimally it would be a frost protect that you can set the threshold on yourself. Like starting at 8c, 3c or other.
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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?0 -
I have 7 radiators all fitted with a smart valve and a boiler (flexibility 30cx) that will keep the pump running for about 5 minutes after the heat stops.
The problem with that setup is that by the time the pump will stop, it’s quite likely that one of the radiators will need some heat and therefore the boiler will fire up again. This results in the boiler pump to run 24/7 in the winter, and the boiler going on/off a lot.
I have 2 suggestions on how this could be improved:
- have a (configurable) minimum amount of time before firing the boiler again
- have a hysteresis pattern in each rad so you can have different temperatures to start and stop asking for heat. You could set things like “when the temperature drops below 18*c, heat the room up to 21*c, then stop”, allowing for crating a delay inbetween two subsequent boiler firings.0 -
Allow multiple of these per account to show control of multiple heating circuits with wireless receivers.0
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It would help with those (quite a few) people who have range issues.0
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Hi community! This is my first contribution! I have many TADO thermostatic valves 10, plus the bridge and the thermostat. But also I have three little children! And here it comes my Idea! Unfortunately there is no way to stop them touching the valves, and I am forced to continually monitor the state of the heating to avoid excessively heat or cool the house because of their tampering. So my proposal is to have more triggers from TADO like the change status to manual so I can create an alert from TADO and set the status back to automatic, and while I'm at it, I'd like to have also humidity threshold triggerable.
I hope this proposal can be shared by many and implemented as soon as possible!
Thank you community!
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I completely agree with the sentiment and the proposed solution. I think this one is important.
Radiator valves have existed for decades. In that time, expectations of how they operate have built up. Muscle memory has developed that leads to me instinctively believing that screwing in a radiator valve to close it, and that unscrewing it will open it.
I feel that Tado's decision to reverse this well-established behaviour is a design oversight. These TRVs operate more like a traditional wall thermostat or an amplifier volume control than the device they skeuomorphically replace.
As a solution: give people the choice. It's hopefully not too much of a challenge to add this setting to the device firmware and allow it to be set via the app.
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I love the new feature, Care and protect. But it would be a major improvement if the Heating Activity was shown for each radiator.
I have two radiators in my living room. It would be nice to know if one of them was heating for 5 hour a day and the other for 8 hours.
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Agreed. There seems to be no logical reason for 25c as a max.1
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I really like this idea. I would really use this for certain rooms at night.
It would avoid the central heating to heat up every few minutes for a few minutes. Instead it would heat up a room when it gets beneath the minimum setting and heat it up to the maximum setting and then letting it cool down to minimum before again heating it. Right now my system activates about 10 times an hour for only one room. Wouldn't it be "better" to let it heat for a longer period of time?
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