"Summer/Cooling mode" for wall thermostat

A crystal clear reply! Thank you very much @saltydog . It's only a simple software issue.

Same required for me. We have a larger chiller on the roof which pumps cold water through the house in the summer. I'd like to control the cooling features. It doesn't even need to control the chiller, which is always on anyway.

Hi,

Two years ago I put underfloor heating but kept my gas boiler. Two years ago I also invested a lot of money in Tado system (6 wall thermostats, wifi receiver, GW) but now as a LOT OF PEOPLE I change my gas boiler to heating cooling Daikin system because gas is very expensive and Aerotermia is much more efficient.

I opened a support ticket to know if it exist any option to have a summer mode to be able to enjoy also the cooling system (here in Spain in summer is very hot) and they said not for now and redirected me to this community.

And I discovered more people are in the same situation as me.

Now Tado team, please take time to understand the request here because we are not asking for any hardware change but only a summer mode that can be activated to invert the logic (when reaching 26 open and when reaching 25 close) with also a summer programmation.

Please can you provide update about the development?

Thank you

Good Day
Despite I Suárez the concern of this forum and I am algo aslin Tado to put a summer Mode, this is what I do to manage my cooling system. In summer, in the sentina área of each room I modify the temperature corrección by compesating with -10°C. Then I Just pull the descrédito temp above 25°C to get cooled Walter into my heaters. It is a simple way to get cooling works, but again there should be easier ways (in this Wayne temp regulación is manually achieved)

Hi Tado Team, any update of this request/feature? Hope this will be implemented fro the nest summer!

thank you in advance for your answer and hard work!

Same goes for the Netherlands and Belgium. Look at the Dutch forum where this has been a top-request for the past 3(!!) years.

I know that heat-pumps, also providing a cooling function over low temp water heating systems, is very common in Scandinavian and German countries too. That should all and all, meanwhile be a large chunk of the EU market.

I'm in the UK, so temperatures above 25C are not that common here. I have eight SRTs, all set as independent, so they cannot request the boiler to fire. Throughout summer I have them set to 25C, so most of the time they remain fully open, at least overnight. If temps do reach 25+ then they will close down, but there's no harm in that occasional exercise to keep the pins free.

In fact, with that in mind, I recently adjusted the schedule for all valves to turn off at 22:00 and resume 25C at midnight. That way they get at least one cycle per 24 hours, but are mostly left open for 22 hours at a time.

Perhaps in warmer climates this plan won't work so well, but it's great for me in the UK.

It's very common in Hungary too in new modern homes to have heat pumps supporting (by circulating hot water in the floor and cold water in the ceiling ) to support both heating and cooling.
I'm very surprised that TADO doesn't support this by default.
So listen to your customers!

Hi friends,

I'm currently considering which thermostat option to buy.

We're looking for a thermostat that allows us to fully operate a system with both heating/cooling floor system with fancoil as an added resource.

We find Tado to be a potential option due to how powerful its heating floor system works; however, not having a way to use this same system to get cold water flowing and just hot water makes it a hard decision for us to make.

We've found other brands like Meross have their thermostats updated so that they include what they call "Summer mode", enabling full operation over both heating and cooling floors.

Could I ask Tado users whether you've found a way to make this work?

Main reason why we'd prefer Tado over other brands such as Meross is that Tado has its thermostats plugged via Ethernet, and not Wifi.

Thanks!

It is possible to set all valves to fully open state for summer in the app.

Go to Settings -- Choose a room -- Heating Zone -- Zone Controller -- set it to "independent".

Do this for all rooms.

Then set all TRVs to the max temperature.

This way, TRVs should remain open all the time (perhaps except the time when the temperature in the room exceeds 25 degrees..) and there should be no heating as they're disconnected from the zone controller.

I'm new to Tado. In fact I only fitted my valves two days ago.

I was immediately surprised that there was no bespoke summer setting but yours seems to be the most logical solution I’ve seen. Problem is I can’t see the settings you’re describing particularly where is the ‘independent’ setting. Can you elaborate? Where do I find it. Sorry if I sound a bit clueless!

Always surprised that since TRV started to appear (yes, I remember the non-thermostat radiator valves ;), I have yet to experience a stuck valve or have heard from friends and family about stuck valves. I have been in at least 5 different apartments with TRVs. No issues whatsoever. And they were all older equipment and a mix of manufacturers.

I think Tado is not adding that feature because it only affects a very small number of users.

I get what people.are saying, but I've never had a problem with a TRV (touches wood...) and I'll definitely look into what eezytiger has mentioned as that looks like an interesting function.

My pennyworth for a short term solution would be to either build time into the schedule to automatically open the valve fully (midday as it's the hottest time of the day?)... or manually Boost Heating for a few minutes to get all the valves open and the system going: you have control then and it wouldn't have to be every day or for more than a few minutes.. just enough to relax the springs..

Isn't the number one time for breakdowns of boilers and radiators is at the start of autumn/winter because during the summer they haven't been used..?

Another potential customer in France with underfloor heating/cooling in an apartment. In my case the heat pump is at building level, and the only control I have in my apartment is to turn on the valve for my underfloor on, or turn it off. In the winter, warm water comes through the pipes, and in the summer they switch the whole building and the same valve gives me cool water.

As others have said, I think a simple logic inversion for a heating to cooling mode switch is all that's needed to make the smart thermostat work in my case.

Pretty please!

Same here in the UK, I’m just about to get the reversible heat pump installed and am horrified to learn that this SOFTWARE option doesn’t exist.