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Tado isn't subscription in it's basic form. Interested to know what the bad reviews said, I get some slightly random unpairing from the bridge on mine, despite one of them being in the same room as it. I think I'm going to contact tado about them actually as the other ones I've installed have been flawless.
My other gripe would be that you can't group rooms or turn on/off all rooms at the same time (although the geolocation does this in a sense). This sounds relevant to your upstairs/downstairs situation.
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Thanks! Yea I’ve been reading maybe Tado w/o subscription is still good.
The complaints l (from memory) were that they’re loud, don’t do a good job getting the room up to temperature (that might be equally applicable to all), and there was something about customers being told to buy a second TRV at act as a temperature sensor in the room becuase the TRV in question is too close to the radiator? Again seems something equally applicable to all. I saw a review say Tado had proactively reached out to say one TRV seemed faulty and replaced it.
Can I ask you a couple questions? If you put the temp up on the TRV does it demand a boost from the thermostat/ boiler? Does it do a nice job of reacting to the weather (seems like a cool feature)? And are you happy with your set up?
Oh and do you use it with HomeKit at all?
stelfox
More on thermostats and TRVs, I'm looking to put both in at ours, so that
a) the upstairs and downstairs (where the thermostat will be) can be on different schedules
b) my partner can do on-demand heat when she's working from home (i'm imagining by clicking the trv up) or hanging about upstairs
c) switch heating on-off remotely (holiday, on the way home) and set the schedule with a GUI
Hive 2 and Netatmo are the lead contenders, any thoughts on them or alternatives? I'd rather not have to wire in the thermostat. I'd prefer it to look nice.
Tado I saw some bad reviews of their TRVs, I don't love the subscription model (can't remember if it's required or the basic functionality is decent without it)
I don't use home assistant... One day but I'm quite far off atm. We're both iphone users so homekit preferred.
Thanks