2 smart radiator valves in one room - how do they work?

Jas

Hi,

In my kitchen I have 2 radiators both fitted with smart rad thermostats. They are both in a tado room 'kitchen'. It seems one of the rads is coming on independent of the other.

In my understanding only one of the rad thermostats is used for temperature checking and will call for heat, so wouldn't they work together to heat the room? Or do they still work independently?

To be honest, I'd rather they work separately as it's a large kitchen and one of the rad's is closer to a external door.

Can someone confirm what the behavior is and can it be changed if I want to?

Cheers

Jas

samd

@Jas Check in Rooms and devices>arrow against Kitchen which rad is the measuring device. Where two or more tado TRVs are in the same room, one of them is auto-selected as the measuring device and that synchronizes the two devices.

Jas

So are you saying both devices come on together? Or independently of each other based on their own thermostat reading?

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Jas

Yep, I think you've hit the nail on the head. I reckon one of my trv pins is sticking open thereby leaving it open far longer than it should be. Which is why 1 of them is on and other not. I will replace the trv and report back, in case it helps someone else.

Jas

Would the app report an error if the TRV cannot be closed?

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Caderman

If you want them to work independently give them different names, e.g rear kitchen, front kitchen

Jas

Thanks for all the replies. I've split the kitchen into 2 rooms as suggested, and i'll monitor the temperatures and how often the rad's are on.

I'll admit so far I am very happy with my Tado system, the temperatures seems to be correct, no issue with reading too high. The app is decent too.

Jas

As an update to this (in case it helps someone in the future), I had a sticking TRV. Once changed, and the room split into 2 rooms as suggested, it all worked perfectly!