Local Mode option for Tado X
Reading the manuals it would seem that if a wireless temperature sensor goes offline, the controller will continue to heat as per the schedule. However, with the server issues the last couple of days I had the following;
- One Wireless receiver X controls one zone and hot water and was running a schedule. The wireless temperature sensor X connected to it went offline when the server issue happened. The wireless receiver X stayed online and kept with the schedule, expect its behaviour to keep to the temperature wasn't as accurate as normal. I tried a reset and new batteries of the temp sensor but nothing brought it online. The wireless temp sensor X came online all by itself at approx 00:30 in the night. Still temp control wasn't so good.
- One wireless receiver X runs a separate zone and was running in manual briefly as we turned the heating down as no-one was in the conservatory. The wireless temp sensor X went offline at the exact same time as the other temp sensor. No rebooting brought it online and the heating actually went off in that room. It didn't even stick to the heating it was manually set to and didn't turn back to the schedule at the next change. The wireless receiver X was online all the time. It didn't come back on when the other temp sensor did. What eventually brought back online was when I recycled the power (at the mains) on both wireless receivers and took out and put back in the batteries at the same time on the temp sensors. The temp control of the previous one also got back to normal doing that.
Now the thing that concerns me most here is when the heating basically shut down when I have a perfectly good boiler and temp sensor. I have seen previous posts about timing being done in the server rather than in the controller but I don't see how they can keep a schedule it the X controllers don't know the time. Maybe this is a new feature. So if that is the case or even if it isn't can we have an option to have a "local mode" where the controller just talks to the manual controller and ignores the server. We don't even need it to have a schedule, for these outages it can just be manual. The system should default to this system automatically in case of an internet or server outage.
There is also probably a way of using the app over the wifi to provide the timings so that schedules can be kept too.