*** Tado Mini Review ***

You couldn't do me a favour and take a picture of the wiring inside the Tado box could you?

I too have a wireless thermostat, with the receiver mounted next to the boiler. This has power going into it from the consumer unit, and a cable going out to the board on the boiler, was yours similar?
 
Nismo said:
You couldn't do me a favour and take a picture of the wiring inside the Tado box could you?

I too have a wireless thermostat, with the receiver mounted next to the boiler. This has power going into it from the consumer unit, and a cable going out to the board on the boiler, was yours similar?
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Have the pic that I took on my phone of the old wiring so will upload it later and also grab a picture of the control box inside too. Trust me a message and will email it in the interim mate.

Yeah, was very simple to wire in. Mine, as mentioned, was wired into a plug, so was the three wires for that (LNE) that went to the old backplate. This then had 3 wires for the boiler mains looped out directly from the plug input and two wires that came down from the boiler for thermostat / controller input. Did not touch the mains side of things, only the controller wires.

After 1st evening with it am more impressed than yesterday when I posted up. Heating has been very evenly controlled and have noticed a difference in the heating of the house. This will primarily be because I moved the thermostat from the hall to the living room and also slightly increased the boiler heating temperature, but it maintains the temperature better than old system.

Also had to increase the 'Home' temperature setting last night as Mrs S was feeling a bit cold, quick flash up of the app and bingo. Also just changed the system into Manual Mode from my work as Mrs S is at home this monring and have not had chance to load the app on her phone so she can be followed and control the Away / Home function. One click and heating back on. Only issue I have with this at work is that while the page loads ok, I cannot see any of the icons across the top of the page. Have a feeling this is more to do with my hobbled work computer that with the actual web page though.
 
Great write up!

When mine arrives I'll try and do something similar.

My setup is a convential system with a wired thermostat. Mine should therefore mirror the installation video that Tado have where you unscrew the thermostat from the wall and wire it up to the tado gateway.

This means I shouldn't (from what Tado said!) need a dedicated power supply and all my boiler controls that work the central heating etc will remain unaffected!

This is the last update on my delivery tracking so hope it moves soon!

Wed, 09.04.2014 04:12 h Köln, Germany The international shipment has been processed in the export parcel center

This ties up with the incoming parcel force track and trace results:
09-04-2014 04:12 KOLN IFS Forwarded for export
08-04-2014 21:41 Delivery Agent - GERMANY Collected from customer
 
Great news Wonder, you should have it fairly soon.

Yeah, looks like your install will be relatively easy too with a hard wired thermostat. You should have a nice tidy tado box in place of your current thermostat then.

Wil be good to see how yours pans out too, will cover more install ooptions and give people more info to go on.

Teh actual tado box can act as a controller for the temperature too. Only problem is you have to decide whether you want to use the solar powered thermo doohickery or the tado box, can't have both controlling. Both are hyper accurate though, so should make no difference. Suppose in your case you can have the box in the living room and the thermostat in another (say bedroom) and then change between them as you see fit.

Anyway, good luck with the install and you will not regret changing to it.....despite teh short time I have had with it I am more than happy and not going back
 
Cheers mate, just had an update to say it's in the country so hopefully it will arrive either tomorrow or Monday.

10-04-2014 08:45 International Hub Forwarded for UK processing
10-04-2014 08:44 International Hub Received in destination country
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Our current stat is in the hallway so I'm thinking put the tado box there and then put the solar powered thermostat into the lounge which is where we want to most control the heat. Beauty of it being wireless is that we can play with what location gives us the best result.
 
Thanks for sharing Shelster, am very tempted myself. Have a question though, I know it turns on/off depending on location services from your phones but does it also have a day timer/schedule?

I.E. set Tado to only heat the home from 6-8am and then from 5:30-11:00pm but if you are not home then it won't turn on until someone is? My worry is that if someone left their phone at home then it would just keep the heating running all day as it thinks there is someone home.
 
NightShadow said:
Thanks for sharing Shelster, am very tempted myself. Have a question though, I know it turns on/off depending on location services from your phones but does it also have a day timer/schedule?

I.E. set Tado to only heat the home from 6-8am and then from 5:30-11:00pm but if you are not home then it won't turn on until someone is? My worry is that if someone left their phone at home then it would just keep the heating running all day as it thinks there is someone home.
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Yes, you can set schedules for having the heating on and off, as per a standard thermostat. If you are away, then it will not turn on the heating. The following is taken from teh FAQ's on the website and covers going on holiday, but guess it covers the same sort of thing

...What happens when I'm on holiday?
When you go on holiday there are two ways of operating tado°. This depends on whether you have the data connection on your smartphone turned on or off. If you continue to use your data connection, tado° will simply function as normal. You do not need to change any settings. tado° recognises that you are far from home and sets the heating system to a reduced temperature. As soon as you return from holiday, tado° will heat up to your home temperature in time for your arrival. If you prefer to turn off your data connection while you are on holiday, you should change a simple setting in your app: before turning off your data connection, switch your tado° app to Manual mode and enter your desired reduced temperature (tado° recommends a reduced temperature of 15°C). Although tado° has no connection to your mobile phone while you are on holiday, the system will remain on manual mode and stick to the temperature you have set. As soon as you turn your data connection back on after your holiday, you should deactivate Manual mode in the tado° app and tado° will automatically resume its usual functions.



As for leaving phone at home, then am guessing if that phone has the app installed then the system will think they are at home and you will have the heating on at Home level. Only way around this would be to web app or phone app in and then set it to manual, reduce the temperature and then when you get back, put it into automatic location controlled.
 
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As promised, some pictures of the internals.

The first one shows the two wires connected onto the new backplate for the Tado Box

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Second one shows the actual insides of the box.

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The Username and password in that picture are the original ones that come with the kit and what you use for first login. As with all supplied info like that, recommend changing that through the settings option in the web app
 
NightShadow said:
Why do they need the exact model thermostat? Is it just so they can supply pictures/instructions for that one and where the existing wiring goes?
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Yeah looks like it. I missed the bit that says if your model isn't shown choose "Other" and then choose a type that matches most closely what you've got.

If you go down the "other" route it asks you to photograph and share your installation photos so that they can add it to their step by step guides!

I've connected the gateway now and will try and tackle the thermostat in the morning. Don't want to mess this time of night!
 
Haha, don't blame you! I changed our original Thermostat (silly analogue thing with no timer options) and it took me a good few hours of checking, umming and ahhhing before I went for it. Then found that the new thermostat didn't draw power from the boiler feed and was just using the battery onboard for the display, chopped up and old PC power cable and ran it to the socket next to the one the boiler uses, hidden in some existing trunking so all good!

Just hovering over the rental option.. I'm just not sure how much it will really make a difference considering we already have pretty a tight schedule on the timer..
 
Looks perfect for those of use that rent as u only need to change the stat over, ours is knickered and has been for years as it needs to be on 30 before boiler kicks in and rads get warm, landlord doesn't see problem, might just rent a tado and replace the old stat when we move out
 
Boom, in!

Here are my install pics:

Old thermostat.
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Existing Wiring.
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Wires removed.
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Tado support confirmed how I should wire it up.
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iPhone used to ensure the backplate was level
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Front clipped on and secured
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Have set the day to 19.5 and the sleep to 10 so lets see how it works for us.

The wireless stat is going to be in the lounge whereas the previous wired stat was in the hallway so it's going to take some tweaking to get the right comfortable temperature.
 
Can the Tado system be used if you have a system boiler (e.g. combi used to heat hot water tank)?

Tempted by one of these system but believe the Hive system is the only one that currently supports it. Really like the look of the Tado setup primarily for the geo location.

Also, is the thermostat a TPI based one?
 
GuruJockStrap said:
Can the Tado system be used if you have a system boiler (e.g. combi used to heat hot water tank)?

Tempted by one of these system but believe the Hive system is the only one that currently supports it. Really like the look of the Tado setup primarily for the geo location.

Also, is the thermostat a TPI based one?
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I would send [email protected] your questions and they'll come back with a difinitive answer!

I asked about my system and was told the bits that would work and what would need changing. They are working on better water controls so they may be able to give you more details.
 
We've had Tado installed for a few days now and I'm really liking it's cleverness! My second son was born on Tuesday so we've been back and forth to the hospital as my wife had to stay in a few days.

Tado has done great at turning off as we've headed to the hospital and coming on when we head back home to heat the house back up.

I originally set the temperature to 19.5 as that's what we used to have the hallway wired stat set to. That was a bit too chilly in the lounge so I put it to 21 and have now dialled that back to 20.5. Certainly seems to be the sweet spot for us.

Here is the heating graph from yesterday, on sunny days it also shows when the sun has been heating the house:
IMG_1670.PNG by Wonder_lander, on Flickr
 
Slight update on my set up.

So far...so good.

Is controlling the heating very well for my liking and the app is saying that I am making savings, though that will have to be seen on bills and all.

Following picture is a week overview of what Tado has been doing..

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Has been a few manual interventions to adjust heating up or down, but this has been led by the fact we have had visitors round, so had to adjust for their likings and also to compensate for the increased heat that extra bodies bring.

Am looking forward to moving the setup to my new house when it is finally built, as is supposed to have an A rating for thermal efficiency so with Tado running things, should keep my heating bills nice and low
 
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