Support multiple schedule configurations such as spring etc..
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The current scheduler is pretty static and does not allow for quick, easy and occasional changes.
For example:
- What if you work from home, where usually you would be away: The scheduler follows the normal pattern, causing the house not to be heated. Would be great if I could update the schedule for a single day.
- What if the kids have a holiday. During that week I don't want to have to update the normal schedule, but only change that single week.
Right now I make a distinction between two states: Someone is home/in the room and nobody is home/in the room. Would be great if I could create templates per room and then specify for each day what template is valid for that room and even make a selection between "a normal schedule" and a "one time update of the normal schedule"
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I suspect that some of the original request has got lost in the noise. A couple of important points that I would like to restate about my perspective, and hopefully catching some of the others (especially for those who may not have read the whole thread yet) ...
- If you have more than one thermostat, ANY change between the three different schedules, and/or change to temperatures needs multiple clicks - there really needs to be a "master" schedule of schedules to allow easy changes for the whole house.
- Personally we find that we are constantly having to "tune" Tado especially in a couple of rooms, depending very much on the weather (seems to be related as much to moisture as outside temperature), how sunny it is and the season (how hot the sun is)... my partner is super sensitive to temperature differences and can sense a drop of less than 0.5C! and having to write down settings to be able to go back to them when the season/weather changes is not exactly automation!
The idea of having different settings for different seasons (plus some of the other requests like working from home, etc.) is: (a) to have a very simple switch FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE between scenarios, maybe even with the option to automate this by season or weather, etc. and (b) have the ability to tune the settings over time in each scenario and then "lock them in" for future use.
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I have read though all of the comments here, and have the following to add/summarise.
For me, the scheduler is currently functional, but so dated in it’s thinking. It’s as if we’ve forgotten this is an app, limited only by our imagination and will, because we are basically replicating the approach of the simplest digital timeclocks from the late eighties. Be ashamed people, lead the charge and change the world.
Think about the user. Firstly, you are selling a zoned solution, capable of controlling every single room independently. If I purchase a radiator valve, I am already saying ‘this room needs to be different’. Whether that is because it’s a guest room, or you now work from home in that room is immaterial. Secondly, we no longer live in the eighties, our lives are fluid in ways we could never have imagined back then. Nine to five is gone for many, shift work, hybrid working, kids at college and university, caring for parents or others, the changing demands are everywhere.
How would I approach this ?
I would create a library for ‘Demand Profiles’. A Demand Profile describes the temperature demands for any single zone for a 24 hour period (midnight to midnight). It has two modes (Home and Away for geofencing). To capture a request from another thread, each temperature slot in the profile can be marked as ‘Desired’ or ‘Required’; where ‘Desired’ slots make no active demand to the boiler, but will open valves to scavenge heat if the boiler is active already, whereas ‘Required’ demands the boiler activate.
I would allow the new Truly Smart Schedule to operate in either ‘Routine’ (weekly repeat) mode or ‘Flexible’ (calendar based). This is important, allow users with a routine and rhythm to their life to program in a simple structured way that feels familiar, whilst providing a fluid and flexible approach to households driven by calendar planning and sudden change.
To schedule in ‘Routine’ mode; Select the zone, the day of the week and the demand profile required.
To schedule in ‘Flexible’ mode; Select the zone, date/time to start, date/time to stop and the demand profile required.
Every zone has a basic ‘Routine’ schedule defined (or maybe just a Frost Protection default). ‘Flexible’ operates as an override in preference to the routine behaviour.
Wrapped around the new Truly Smart Schedule, the Geofence needs some tweaking. Each geofence user needs to have zones assigned to them. If all users of a given zone leave, that zone drops into ‘Away’ mode.
I believe that this basic approach provides a massive step forward in flexibility. If I prefer to stay with simple routine-based programming, I can quickly switch to an alternate Demand Profile as the routine changes for school holidays, visitors or such, then switch back later, all with minimal effort. I no longer need to remember my preferred set-up and recreate it later.
Flexible mode provides the basis for ultimately linking zones to calendar apps or other external triggers potentially. It certainly allows shift workers and commercial travellers to plan ahead reliably.
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I agree with the suggestions above and would like Profiles e.g working from home, holiday mode, at work mode (keep the dogs room radiator on)4
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Simple multiple profiles/schedules would be really useful. As a worker on rotating shifts it's a real pain manually changing individual rooms schedules and temperatures every four days. The recently introduced copy room function doesn't to it for me as I have different room parameters in every room.
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What I would like:
- Ability to create any number of named schemes.
- Modify scheme, including its name
- Delete scheme
- Assign a named scheme to a room (or multiple rooms)
- Set a date/time when the next scheme becomes active for a room (like now it is scheme A, switch to scheme B next monday at noon)
- Copy/clone a scheme
- Copy a day in a scheme to another day in same scheme (like copy Mon to Tue, or copy Mon to Tue, Wed and Fri)
- Have a ‘holiday scheme’ with settings per room which you can activate until a certain date/time at which point the current scheme is reinstated. So you can say “We are away until Sunday Dec 5, 17.00). In my case it would be 17 degrees for living room and Frost protection in all other rooms, which should be adjustable per room.
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@Khayamanzi i assume you saw this one for term vs breaks schedules…?0
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Being a shift worker I would like to be able to set a repeating 2, 3 or 4 week schedule. I start work at 06:00 for week 1, 14:00 for week 2 and 22:00 for week 3. So messing around with on off times and temps every week is not really practical.
Need something like setting up a repeating meeting in a calendar, repeat every 3 weeks etc
Come on Tado not everyone works Monday to Friday. Really like the kit but the scheduler is from the dark ages.1 -
up this post any feedback from Tadon the roadmap for this feature ? ( maybe in the next sprint :-) )
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Absolutely. I use empty rooms when visitors come so need a different schedule for those times along with different schedules for usual rooms because of social life. Two schedules per room would be fantastic for me.
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my wife and I work on weekly shifts and we have different heating needs per week, it would be very useful to have the possibility to memorize programs to be used in different weeks1
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Great suggestion.
This would be a great feature to have and make things so much easier. Being able to easily change the whole setup based on who is in your home would be great. We often have elderly relatives who come to stay so when they are with us we generally have the temperature in most rooms a little higher and on for longer. When the are not staying, the spare room is turned off.
I'd love to have a profile called "granny" so I can update the whole house in one go without having to change every room one at a time.
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Very much like what Andreplusplus has posted above.
On top of that the ability to have scheduled schemes in a calendar view to easily set in advance when we're on away on holiday, have guests over etc and have that calendar automatically apply the correct scheme to the house.
Should also have the ability to have room schemes and house schemes (collection of room schemes).
The ability to be more "hands-off" with the heating schedules would be a massive improvement!
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Sorry about this, but i have to let you guys know from who you are expecting things to happen. Tado support team is useless. I reported a lot of problems, mainly connectivity issues, and their last answer (last because now they are not replying at all) was stunning. I reported that two of my devices do not update to the latest firmware (it’s been over a week now) and they answered with “we think it’s best if you go with something other than tado”. So, the TADO support team advised me to go for other products than their own, seems like we are stuck with a near dead product. Here is the email i was telling you about:
Hello Paul,
thank you for contacting us. I kindly ask you to leave your feature request in the tado° Community, so it can be discussed and voted on by our community members.
That feedback then helps us determine what we should change, and which features we should develop further.
We are currently doing the best we can to innovate and develop our products and services to the highest level that we can. However, this also means that implementations take time to be fully integrated and work properly along with all consumers. So if you are looking for a solution to all of these things now, it would seem best for you to choose something other than tadoº - as I cannot guarantee you at this very moment that there are no more delays in features like open window detection, for example.
Please have a look over the following link where you can start the returning process.
In case you have any more questions, do not hesitate to reach out to me directly.
Wishing you a lovely weekend.
Kind regards,
Wendy1 -
@Jurian @Rob any comments on this?0
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As you've probably noticed we have made some recent changes to the schedule. You can copy days and entire schedules. We are not stopping there. This 'multiple schedules' topic is next on the list. I cannot promise you any outcome, but I do strongly believe this is the next topic that is being worked on as that is literally what the developers told me.
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allow individuals to be assigned to rooms, so that the rooms schedule gets turned off for that room, if that person leaves the house
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Any update on this request would be great1
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Chipping in to say I'd love to see this. New to tado and it's great but the static nature had already caught me out. Our scenarios;
- school holidays or days off work, treat week days as a weekend day.
- early start. We often have an early start as a weekend. Sometimes on a week day. Would be nice to deploy a one off early start. What I'm doing at the moment is have an extra block in the schedule and it's usually set to 'low' (same as night time) but remember to edit in advance (and set back afterwards) to 'high'. It would be great if this could be set on an ad-hoc basis with less time in and out of the app.1 -
Very easy to program but yet again this may take years and then Tado prides on it self that it did a good job!
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Expectations are high for this. Would love to see this added. Therefore this post.
Hope that we'll see something like it, looking at the age of the post, is low....0 -
It URGENTLY needs a function to be able to save and retrieve multiple plans per room!
For example, you can save a heating plan "summer", a heating plan "winter", etc...
Also this function is immensely important for all vacation weeks. In the vacation weeks the attendances and absences change a lot. Currently I have to revise the whole weekly schedule (7 days) for this. After the end of these 7 days I have to change everything back again. I have 4 to 5 different temperature levels per day. That takes an eternity!
It would be so simple and quickly implemented. Below a picture of how the whole thing could look...
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Second that, a vacation schedule or similar would make it less a hassle to reprogram. Having 5 or 6 zones to be altered each time the household goes into vacation mode takes time, both before and after.3
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Hi,
Isn’t this already covered by the Geofencing functionality?1 -
Geofencing isn't covering my needs. With geofencing I just can set one temperature when I am not at home. But i would like to safe and set new schedules for the whole week.
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I don’t understand why you would wish to waste energy heating an empty nome.
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Great idea.
Working home/working from the office
Kids with mum/kids at home.
Guests in the annex/home alone.
Option for switching between schedules could/should be automated based on geolocation
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