tado Smart Thermostat X – Add-on as Wired Room Thermostat, Heating Control via App & Smart Speaker (Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant), DIY Installation, Not Compatible with V3+

Great system
Living in a 80’s detached house where wind seems to hit it constantly, and with 15 rads, I finally caved in to the Tado V3+ kit…and do not regret it.
I bought the stat and two 4-pack’s of smart valve heads locally and set them up. I had some teething issues with connection dropping out between the bridge and boiler receiver, but since buying a 3d printed “bridge holder” from Amazon, the connection has been pretty stable. I have read about some with large distances between the boiler and bridge, and having thick walls causing comms issues.
I have three toilets and a cold porch, so opted to keep the valves on them as standard lockshields, the way I have set it up is that these four always come on in addition to any smart rads calling for heat. This works for me as they are small single panels or towel warmers, and provide ambient warmth in places it is needed (best practise is to have some rads without thermostatic control anyway).
I bought three smart TRV’s for £112 on Amazon, this means I have 11 in total. Having set them up individually in the Tado app with schedules, I find it fantastic as I am not potentially warming 15 rads like I did before with a standard wireless stat set to a specific temperature in one room.
It also helps with speed of warming because now the required rads heat up faster as less rads are calling for heat, prior to this some of my rads took ages to warm up even with me balancing the system as best I could.
I have tailored the schedule so the kids rooms aren’t being heated when they are at school, or the wife’s work room is not actively heating overnight, weekends or during her office days etc.
I have targetted what rooms need what heat, at what times. Then with time I started to see where the heating manifold is and what rooms help heat others, so a little fine tuning here and there has helped even more with reducing usage.
Overall, I believe I am saving over 10% in usage versus a traditional stat, but in reality I am warming less areas at a time, and the rooms requiring heat at certain times feels warmer as a result.
I fitted this kit in October so expect by the end of the following winter I’ll have at least broken even on my outlay.
Easy to fit to most standard TRV’s, with 1.5 x 30mm thread. There is a list on the Tado website of what fits directly. I have changed 1-2 older valves to Drayton 15x15mm ones so I can fit them without use of any adaptors.
It only takes a moment or two to fit the smart head onto a compatible valve body, and initialise it.
Each head takes two AA batteries, it gets easier to change after the first time. I am using decent LR6 alkaline batteries, and expect they’ll need done 1-2 times a year.
I have parental locked the heads from manual use, but if you don’t have kids in the house then twisting the head to the desired temp is a nice little way to boost heating in a particular room.
Tado had an offer for a years free access to advanced features like geofencing and open window detection. Geofencing is great for automatically turning down the heating when no users of the app are detected within a close range. Absolutely brilliant if you have a wife who doesn’t make any adjustments via the app when the house is empty all day…
Overall, it can be an expensive system to set up and might be a bit daunting for some, but read up as much as you can. I can’t see it being a regretful decision to install these for most people in more modern houses or with large systems.

Definitely worth the investment
I loved my Tado system. Controlling each room from my app is great. They’re easy to fit. I fitted my whole system myself and I don’t do electrics – that was 2 years ago and I’ve not burned the house down.
Tado isn’t cheap, but the App is easy to use and I like the way it Geofences to remind you to turn your heating to away or at home.
The one thing about Tado is that it does sometimes glitch and you get very warm.

Cannot recommend enough
I honestly can’t recommend these enough! I bought 2 of the wired thermostat X for my multi zone heating system at home at these took me the whole of 5 minutes to install both of them. The app has been easy to use and even though there are some paid features I don’t think it’s a bad price at £40 per year. Just a reminder to people that you do not need the bridge X as long as you have a thread router which a lot of modern routers are.

Gain de confort, et économies !
Après un hiver, le gain est de 25% de gaz en moins par apport à l’hiver l’année précédente qui était sensiblement le même.
Relativement facile à installer, à piloter/programmer.
Une petit détail C’est noté compatible Google Home ou Amazon, MAIS !
Le hub, lui ne l’est pas. Si vous voulez passer par Google Home par exemple, il faudra un hub compatible.
C’est un détail celui de TADO fonctionne très bien, c’est juste dommage d’afficher une compatibilité qui au final ne l’est pas.
Ca oblige juste à passer par leur application, qui est bien faite par ailleurs.

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