Smart thermostat recommendation and stupid question

manic111

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Hi everyone

I'm looking to move to a smart thermostat, with a view to my heating knowing when I'm working from home (either because I tell it, or ideally because it works it out when I'm home during the week) and sets the heating accordingly.

Two questions. First, any recommendations? It looks like the options are Hive, Nest or Tado - I don't want to spend hours setting up smart devices myself, so while I'm sure there are better techy solutions I can't really be bothered with them.

Second, have I got a wired or wireless thermostat? Photos below - I think it's wired with a wireless controller. Is that correct?

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nst68 said:
Looks like you have a boiler control (2nd pic), the thermostat could be wired or wireless, you'd need to remove the front off the thermostat to check, switch off the breaker on the fuse board that powers the heating first!
My old Honeywell thermostat had a battery powered display, but it was still wired back to the boiler.

What kind of hot water system do you have, combi boiler or hot water tank?

I think you'd need this Tado v3+ kit, it has a replacement control box and a wireless thermostat https://uk.shop.tado.com/products/wireless-smart-thermostat-starter-kit-v3

but......

Tado are about the bring out a new heating controller in the UK (it's already launched in Europe) called Tado X https://shop.tado.com/en/products/wireless-smart-thermostat-x-starter-kit

If you just want a wireless controller then the v3+ is ok, but if you think you might want smart TRVs then I'd wait for the Tado X.
They're still selling the v3+ TRVs but who knows for how long and of course the two systems are incompatible :mad:

If you want an easy hands off installation then contact British Gas and get them to install Hive, it'll cost more but they do it all
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Very helpful, thanks!

On the system, it's a fairly standard Vaillant combi boiler.

I have some cheapo TP Link TRVs already. My plan was to hook these together to a smart thermostat with Alexa (eg if I say "Set the heating in the study to 20c", for example, Alexa turns on the smart thermostat and the TRV, and can presumably then switch the thermostat off again once the TRV reports 20c).

Presumably, the old Tado can do that just as well as the new one? Or do you think I may be being overoptimistic in Alexa's capabilities, and that going all in on new kit would be better?

Edit:
I've pulled the front cover off the thermostat, and it's as below. I'm presuming that this means that it's wired, and that the wireless controller is just a controller - does that sound about right?
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