tado° Smart Radiator Thermostat - Quattro Pack, Add-ons for Multi-Room Control, Intelligent Heating Control

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For our test we went with a complete Tado installation consisting of a central Smart Thermostat aided by four Smart Radiator Thermostats. This would ensure that the upstairs rooms (which tend to be a lot colder than the rest of the flat) could be heated in line with the rest of the building. Compared to the Nest’s beautiful circular display and iPod-esque interface, Tado’s efforts don’t make as much of an impression. SOLUTION: So let's create a time schedule to overwrite undesirable behaviour on the actuator side. If we would manually set the temperature to be way higher that actually needed for say the first 30 minutes depending on the size of the room, and then gradually drop the temperature evey other 30 minutes (a degree at the time) we would end up with the correct temperature in the room and on the sensor. By default, the Tado app now warns you when you leave your home, or it detects that a window is open, asking you to turn your heating down or off. Upgrade to Auto-Assist and both features are automated, so your heating will turn down when everyone goes out, and your heating will turn down when it’s detected a window or door is open.

Never heat your whole home again! tado' Smart Radiator Thermostats can replace your existing thermostatic radiator valves and provide room-by-room scheduling and control, so you can enjoy greater comfort and improve the efficiency of your heating system. To benefit from tado' Smart Radiator Thermostats, you must also install a tado' Starter Kit. An overall energy saving of 15% is excellent, but what’s more impressive is that Tado’s system managed to do this while keeping our flat feeling lovely and warm. We didn’t have to sacrifice any heat to save energy, and that feels like what smart heating should be all about. View in-app reports about your heating activity, temperature and humidity profiles and the energy being saved by Tado This left just two valve-equipped radiators in our home without the Tado radiator valves. We chose to not install these on the radiators in our kitchen and living room since they’re the most likely to be the same temperature as the hallway where the central Thermostat is.The additional 8 Smart Thermostats allow even more control of your home climate by setting the right temperature, at the right time, in every room or zone. They will help save even more on your heating costs through the Multi-Room control which allows you to change additional rooms and zones individually. You can manage all zones in the tado° app for a clear overview.

Easy to self-install when replacing an existing Thermostatic Radiator Valve (TRV), can be mounted both vertically and horizontally, depending on the type of radiator

The original Tado app was good, but it was really designed for a single zone and thermostat. As soon as you added extra devices, it became a bit of a mess and more difficult to see what was going on. That’s a huge amount of flexibility, particularly for Smart Radiator Thermostats. For example, you can have your bedroom warm up first, with the living room warming up later on. Annoyingly, you can’t copy schedules between days or between rooms, so getting everything working can be fiddly.

One of the first companies to launch a smart thermostat, Tado has proved itself as one of the most flexible and easy-to-control systems on the market. With the latest version of the Tado Smart Thermostat (V3+), there has been some consternation about the fact you now have to pay for some of the energy-saving features on a monthly subscription that you used to get for free. The universal radiator thermostat fits most radiators with thermostatic radiator valves (various adapters are included) and it can be mounted vertically or horizontally depending on the type of radiator. Tado is one of the better-connected smart thermostats. Apple Home support is nice to see. Control from the Apple Home app is a little basic, and changes to temperature follow the rule you have set for manual changes in the app (it’s effectively the same as changing the temperature from the main thermostat). However, you can use your Tado system in Automations – say, turning your heating up and lights down to watch movies.The amount of control Tado allows means that we could have probably saved more money if we’d tweaked our schedules a little more by paying closer attention to when people spent time in their rooms, but without the self-learning smarts of the Nest system this would have been a much more hands-on process than we would have liked.