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I can heat specific rooms (or upstairs/downstairs) to specific temperatures (and it's one of the few thermostats that are HomeKit compatible, so I can do it through Siri instead of the app) if that's what you mean? I've found it useful during the winter months as I wfh so have just been able to keep the study cosy throughout the day instead of the whole house.
Not sure what fancy stuff Nest can do, but I imagine there's a large featureset overlap 🤷♂️
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I think Nest tries to "learn" how you set your heating over time so it does that automatically for you. Never appealed to me. I ain't havin' no skynet tell me when I'm supposed to be snuggly warm!
Did you install the Netatmo yourself? We currently have Hive but only because we used to be with BG and they had an offer where we got it for free (including installation). It syncs well with Alexa, but I've found I use that less and less. Just a shortcut on my phone homescreen.
Are there any recurring fees?
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Not sure what fancy stuff Nest can do, but I imagine there's a large featureset overlap
Nest really is just "Is the boiler on? Or is it off?".
It's boiler control and perhaps if places had full HVAC things would be different... but Nest primary selling point is "We'll learn your home heating needs - how long it takes to heat, when you want heat, and we'll dynamically schedule your heating to keep the temp how you want for the least cost"... but that is still just controlling the boiler for the whole house and it has no understanding of radiators at all.
Am considering a move to Tado precisely to gain per-room controls as the flat is over 85m2 and there's no point heating the whole flat when I'm WFH from the living room and barely go into the rest of the flat during the day.
Tado will at least do both boiler and radiator control... and as I have tended not to use the intelligent scheduling of Nest (it really doesn't understand that the reason I boost temperature is because I'm sat next to a draughty window - so the criteria is the wind speed and direction outside)... going with Tado looks to be the far better choice.
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This seems like a better option than nest then really.
I like the idea of just heating the one room I'm in working for most of the day and not the whole house. What would happen if I didn't install these on each radiator?
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Does that allow you to zone the house? Not sure if thats the correct word.
Also can you do all the fancy stuff like Nest?