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I'm pretty happy with it all in all, despite the small gripes I listed. Saves me worrying about balancing rads and I'm sat here in the warm working whilst the rest of the house is quite cold.
No homekit or any other such smart kit, linked to it anyway. I did have aspiration of trying out Home Assistant and hooking up the extractor fan to respond when humidity rises too high (each TRV measures humidity), but in all honesty I'm not clever enough for all that stuff.
The TRVs certainly make a noise, but I've heard that complaint leveled against most brands. I've kept one out of the bedroom for now for that reason, so that rad just comes on when any of the others do, same with the towel rail which is actually quite handy. I have noticed I hear the noise of the water in the pipes more if not all the the TRVs open at the same time in the morning. There appears to be a 2 or 3 minute delay on them shutting the heating down if you turn everything down 'manually' on the app, so I wonder if there's a slight delay in the opening in the morning.
You can adjust the temp on the TRV yes, buy spinning the top, or on the app, one reflects the other, and if that temp is higher than the one it thinks the room is it'll call for heat and the boiler fires up. Seems to track real world temps pretty well, although there is a disparity between the TRVs and the actually thermostat (which is probably more accurate) in the kitchen, so I need to check and calibrate them with the temp offset feature. I read that radiator covers mess with the TRV temp reading too.
Like TW says the extra features you pay for (check this is still their business model) are pretty useless.
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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?