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Do you mean Tado? Or is Tapo something new?
I've had Tado for 6 years now. First just the thermostat control (installed myself) and more recently added the TRVs in two rooms. It's been great, just works. It learns how long it takes to heat up the flat, will turn it off when you leave, then sense if you're heading back and start it back up before you get there. Good if you have a sporadic at home schedule (pre covid).
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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.