Support multiple schedule configurations such as spring etc..
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This multiple schedules feature would be incredibly useful right now. Being able to switch between something like an Autumn Mode and Winter Mode, or hit a button and go into a ‘cold snap’ mode would be awesome. Just literally have it switch to a whole new schedule but save the old one.
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@GrayDav4276 agreed, but I refer to my comment on 8th November...0
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Schedules per room is not the requested feature, please read careful what is asked.
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Current the app requires me to manually change the heating schedule for several or most zones when:
- Our stay-at-home family vacation starts.
- Our stay-at-home vacation ends.
- One or more of our kids are home sick.
- A previously sick child goes back to school.
- We return to the office for a week.
- One or both of the parents work from home during school term.
- One of both of the parents work from home during the weekend.
- We have a guest living with us while we are working.
Most of these conditions occur several times per year.
The issue, as more or less stated in other comments is that Tado only operates with two location related states: “Home” and “Away”. Tado fails to recognize the simple fact that though Away might be binary, being Home definitely is not. It’s quite .. disappointing.
I would love to see the user stories used to drive the design of the Tado app.
Here is mine:
As a user of the Tado app,I want to be able to easily select the current usage of my house,So that the heating schedule can be optimized with minimal effort.6 -
I think JohanHWB nails it above. We have a spare room that is also our study. If I’m at the office with no guests the heating should be off all day. If I’m home working then the heating should be on in the day. And if we have guests then the heating should be on at night so it’s warm to sleep in. The ability to add a per room, rather than me having to edit them manually each time we switch between uses of the room would be great.0
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Staycation / Bank holiday mode would be nice. Just allow a specific time period to be an everyday version of an already programmed time period.
E.g. from 1 Jun to 5 Jun make everyday a Sunday.
I had an old digital timer that managed that so I don’t see why Tado would find it difficult 😉1 -
Hi,
I've seen this thread evolve over the years (think I have a reply here already) and there does seem to be a difference of opinion 😄
This subject came back to me recently and I had a thought for the feature name the other day: "Seasons". My tado system is like this:
1) Main tado thermostat in living area room, with 2 radiators in the same "room" each with tado TRVs
2) 4 other radiators all with tado TRVs. One of these is the bathroom
3) 1 radiator with no TRV at all (this acts as my systems "bypass")
4) My schedule is pretty simple: Mon-Sun with the same time blocks for each room.
In the winter, I want all elements to come on and go off with their respective schedules, open window detection etc. But in the summer I want only the bathroom radiator to come on and go off with its respective schedule, open window detection etc. (plus the "bypass" radiator since I have no control over this one)
I don't believe there is currently a way to do this, other than leave everything off and controlling the bathroom manually. So:
1) Provide a method of creating Seasons that are completely customizable by the user, e.g. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, or just Summer, Winter
2) tado elements can belong to multiple seasons, or none at all
3) Season schedules are completely customizable by the user, e.g. my Summer/Winter split basically follows clock changes
4) The Season has the heating time blocks. Elements in a given Season inherit that schedule. If an element is in multiple Seasons then it's pretty self explanatory: when within the date range of a Season then that schedule is used, so for me my Summer and Winter seasons would still be Mon-Sun with the time blocks I currently have, but since only the Bathroom is in the Summer season only that one gets called to action during the date range of the Summer Season
That doesn't seem like an awfully complicated feature to develop, since it's only adding the Season layer on top of what's already there. Rather than completely re-inventing the system.
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I've been watching this thread for well over a year. They are useless in working on suggestions.
This facility should not be very difficult for Tado to implement as we already have different schedules for Everyday (the same), Mon-Fri + Sat & Sun and Everyday (different).
Come on Tado pull your finger out (I'm going to put a poor review on the App and comment they are rubbish in responding). Maybe it lots of us comment on the poor response they may take notice.
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Hi All, I’m a novice with Tado and first time in this community so I might have missed some development on this thread.
Has it really been YEARS that Tado have ignored such a valid request for improvement? Amazing!!!
I get the feeling Tado are waiting until enough people register their discontent before they deem it worthwhile to address the problem.
In another part of the community forum maybe ‘Suggestions’ site, there is a request for this functionality and the Votes are currently at 49.
Does anyone know how many votes are needed to get some attention from Tado?
Kds51h - your last post was back in December 2022, it’s now February 2024, have you had any reaction at all?
Come on Tado, are you listening?
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@TadNube take a look at the top two suggestions that both have around 500 votes.
Both are much more fundamental and important, but nothing from Tado for 5 years...
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@johnbur , thanks for the reply. Subsequent to my initial post I did find another discussion thread on the same subject of Scheduling options and that is up to 290 votes.
What with the two suggestions of 500 votes each, the 49 I found plus the 290 I just mentioned, that is well over a reasonable 1k of interested parties asking for action.
I wonder what Tado’s threshold is before they choose to listen?
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@TadNube as far as I can tell, sadly tado don't monitor these forums at all anymore.0
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@johnbur , well, the lady on the Tado Help Desk advised me this, “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.”
I guess if Tado never monitor, they are not aware of these requests, so there can’t be any demand! Job done.
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As of 3rd Feb 2024, it seems like loads of similar requests in addition to this one (291 votes) that I can find with a quick search of the forum...
Allow additional schedules in addition to Home and Away (29 votes)
Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter settings (49 votes)
Winter/Summer (9 votes)
Winter, Autumn, Summer Schedule (3 votes)
Summer/Winter Mode (16 votes)
Zones or Seasons (3 votes)
TOTAL of at least 400 votes (but seems like there's another one with over 290 votes based on previous comment) so come on Tado, please put this on your backlog to be actively looked at how you can do this for your customers. Looks like there are well getting on for 1000 votes for this/similar feature requests.
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Maybe we could go on marketplaces (Amazon…) and put a bad review as a protest, linking to this message. I guess we would have more leverage than a message in a pseudo community uservoice.0
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I've added an edit to the opening post of this thread.
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@Rob welcome back - long time no hear. How about an update on the top two suggestions that have around 500 votes each? Can't see that they are for power users only?0
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It is obvious that Tado are not looking at any of these threads, including ones that are for major flaws.
We need to be more visible. I've started commenting on their facebook page. I suggest everyone else should do the same thing.
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Thanks. I won't be very present here, but as it looks now we will have a colleague that definitely will.
Assuming you mean the 'backup schedule' and 'range extender' topics;
The range extender topic is something we cannot easily introduce to existing hardware due to hardware limitations. In that sense it is fundamentally different from this multiple schedule topic. With software you can basically do everything, as long as you invest enough time. The limits here are thus time and if the change actually improves the product for the majority of users.
Hardware however has physical limits. The range issue is something we have been fine tuning a lot though (with firmware), but the improvements were not so big that it solved the issue for those who had massive range issues. For this topic and other topics where the hardware is the limit, our hands are simply tied until we introduce fundamentally new hardware.
I'm not allowed to announce any product updates (which is quite frustrating... to me too), but I can certainly promise that we are not sitting still.
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Indeed. Five years and counting. @Rob I understand your hands are tied, and I do appreciate that you at least responded. However, after five years, that was an appalling non answer.2
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It is a required feature I must say. If you are worried about common people, please do not enable by default. Provide a setting which can enable at each user level. Once enable, the app can show provision to do multiple schedule which allow enable only one at a time per device. I can really guess the number of people wanted this feature those do not know about this forum or lazy or scared to create a login here.
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Hi all,
I've only recently become a user of Tado products, and found some great information in this thread, thank you!
Thought I'd add my comments, about a couple of functionalities I am missing from Tado currently (or haven't found out how to use yet?):
- Being able to schedule the Away mode (what is called Holiday mode on other thermostats): Set manually (but in advance) when you want Tado to move to Away mode, and again when you want it to move back to Home mode. The first step works well with Geofencing. But for poorly insulated houses, being able to re-start the heating when you're 2 hours away from home can be very important.
- Having a notion of profiles for schedules, with a quick action button on the front page of the app that would change all rooms schedules in one click (School Day / Everyone home / The kids at their grandparents' / etc.) ⇒ One click would change all the schedules at once, but more importantly: you'd only program them once.
I would love to see those implemented within Tado.
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I have a hybrid working arrangement, where I spend some days working from home and others travelling in to an office. The days I travel in aren't the same every week, so I have to manually adjust room schedules one by one every time my in-office days change. This is really irritating, and not at all 'smart'. I'd like to see an overall 'Schedule 1 / Schedule 2' option, where those options enable me to set temperatures for all rooms depending on whether I'm working from home or not.
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Quand est ce que Tado va faire une mise à jour pour permettre différents planning? Netatmo le fait, je commence à le regretter. Allez voir leurs ingénieurs si vous n'êtes pas capable.....0
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Please update home screen to identify which schedule is applied to each room (top left hand corner of each room tile, maybe). Given we have three existing possible schedules I think people would likely want to rename them as something useful and create new ones using the more granulated schedule formats.0
