does "Away" mode (geofenced) override manually set room temp?
Following scenario: room temp was manually set to 22 degrees C "until next time block". Shortly after, all users left the house for several hours.
It appears that even tho geofencing set Tado to "away" mode, the room which was manually set to 22 degrees prior to leaving, remained as such, and did not switch to the away temparature.
I had assumed that the "away" mode will override any manual temparature changes that were made before entering away mode. is that not the case?
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thanks for the response @GrilledCheese
i tried it again today and the expected behavior FAILED.
While at home, I set Kitchen to 22 degrees C. Shortly after, all users left the house.
Tado APP confirmed that Geofencing had automatically switched to "AWAY",
However, temp in the kitchen was still at 22, all other rooms were also still set to normal "smart schedule" temp.
I then set it to AWAY manually, and now all rooms were set to the AWAY temperature.
After setting "Home/Away" back to AUTO, the app still shows in Away Mode (automatically set), however, room temps went back to the smart schedule as if we were at home.
Is this a known bug? Seems that the Auto Home/Away Mode is not functioning correctly anymore since we received the option of manually changing Home/Away.
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I've sent a link to this thread through the support chat. hopefully someone will look at it. Support seems to be overwhelmed at the moment, having to wait several days to get a response.
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Hey, I am a new user and wondered about this for the last two days too. Same odd behavior here and I thought this might be a bug so i did a quick search here after testing it today a few times.
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I've recently extended my system with a whole system of Smart Radiators. The first time I spent the evening away from the home since installing them (Covid life!) saw some of the radiators remain on manual mode and unnecessarily heating the house. I raised this as a support issue and like others have had no response after more than a week!
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I have this issue as well. I'll raise a ticket as well. It would be good to report back in here once any of us get a response1
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There's a Geofencing Control option under Advanced Settings for the time blocks in the room settings, check that's enabled.
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@jasonRS yes I have these enabled in all time blocks for all rooms.
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Hi, how did you manage to make the app show decimal value in Living Room?
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This has been happening on my setup for the last couple of weeks. Same behaviour when using app or website. Very annoying. Did anyone get any response from support. Mine is not inconsistent, it happens each and everytime.
It never used to demonstrate this behaviour, so they have changed something in the backend.
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I have the same problem. Is there a solution for this problem. This is very annoying.1
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@gary333 i had filed a support ticket. they responded to me that it supposedly was not an error, and i should submit a feature request if i wanted the behavior to be different.
Pretty much BS, because even their documentation says it should automatically go to AWAY mode even if you have an override of temperature, as long as the override is set "until next time block", rather than a fixed time.
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There is an IFTTT "thing" to "Set Tado from Manual to Automatic when you leave the house", I linked that a few months ago, but I don't think I've actually tested it yet (with me not actually going anywhere lately!!). I must test it ASAP.
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I finally remembered to test the IFTTT "thing" to "Set Tado from Manual to Automatic when you leave the house" today. Worked perfectly.
😎👍️
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I suspect as long as a geo located person (or rather their phone!) is still at home, it won't trigger it, because it is the system going into "Away" mode that triggers it.
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Ok that would make sense. So it's not triggered by just my phone leaving the house, but also anyone else who is registered as a user in our tado system. Will test it out, thanks :)
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