tado Smart Radiator Thermostat X – Trio Pack, Heating Control via App and Smart Speaker (Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant), Save Heating Costs, DIY Installation, Not Compatible with V3+

I decided to take the plunge after doing my research. I went or Tado based on the good reviews, apparent ease of installation and value.I now just heat up the rooms/zones where I want or need the heat.In the end I ended up with the starter kit and 9 Smart Radiator Valves and so the cost does add up when you need to purchase that many SRVs.Installation of the actual wireless receiver/controller wasn't that difficult but in my view is probably outside the knowledge of must DIYers unless you happen to have specific electrical knowledge or background. Fitting the SRVs is easy and I didn't need to use any of the adapters which is a plus because some of them look a little odd and I'm not sure how well they would fit.Besides that setting up everything through the app is very good. Defining different zones works a treat and you can have different heating schedules for each zone. The app/controller is actually clever enough to not turn on the boiler each time a single SRV calls for heat as that would be very inefficient and also bad for the pump and boiler etc. it tries to optimise this as much as possible which seems to work well.I can also do manual overrides from the app, such as boosting the heat in all rooms or turning them all off. It also notifies me when I leave home asking me if I want to turn all the heating off the save energy. it's a nice idea but when I leave home it doesn't meant that everyone else has :). Perhaps Tado will improve this so that all home users can be tracked and also linked to specific heating zones. For example, when my daughter leaves for work, the apps could track this and just turn off the heating in her bedroom.Anyway, great product and would definitely recommend.

Living in a 80’s detached house where wind seems to hit it constantly, and with 15 rads, I finally caved in to the Tado V3+ kit…and do not regret it.I bought the stat and two 4-pack’s of smart valve heads locally and set them up. I had some teething issues with connection dropping out between the bridge and boiler receiver, but since buying a 3d printed “bridge holder” from Amazon, the connection has been pretty stable. I have read about some with large distances between the boiler and bridge, and having thick walls causing comms issues.I have three toilets and a cold porch, so opted to keep the valves on them as standard lockshields, the way I have set it up is that these four always come on in addition to any smart rads calling for heat. This works for me as they are small single panels or towel warmers, and provide ambient warmth in places it is needed (best practise is to have some rads without thermostatic control anyway).I bought three smart TRV’s for £112 on Amazon, this means I have 11 in total. Having set them up individually in the Tado app with schedules, I find it fantastic as I am not potentially warming 15 rads like I did before with a standard wireless stat set to a specific temperature in one room.It also helps with speed of warming because now the required rads heat up faster as less rads are calling for heat, prior to this some of my rads took ages to warm up even with me balancing the system as best I could.I have tailored the schedule so the kids rooms aren’t being heated when they are at school, or the wife’s work room is not actively heating overnight, weekends or during her office days etc.I have targetted what rooms need what heat, at what times. Then with time I started to see where the heating manifold is and what rooms help heat others, so a little fine tuning here and there has helped even more with reducing usage.Overall, I believe I am saving over 10% in usage versus a traditional stat, but in reality I am warming less areas at a time, and the rooms requiring heat at certain times feels warmer as a result.I fitted this kit in October so expect by the end of the following winter I’ll have at least broken even on my outlay.Easy to fit to most standard TRV’s, with 1.5 x 30mm thread. There is a list on the Tado website of what fits directly. I have changed 1-2 older valves to Drayton 15x15mm ones so I can fit them without use of any adaptors.It only takes a moment or two to fit the smart head onto a compatible valve body, and initialise it.Each head takes two AA batteries, it gets easier to change after the first time. I am using decent LR6 alkaline batteries, and expect they’ll need done 1-2 times a year.I have parental locked the heads from manual use, but if you don’t have kids in the house then twisting the head to the desired temp is a nice little way to boost heating in a particular room.Tado had an offer for a years free access to advanced features like geofencing and open window detection. Geofencing is great for automatically turning down the heating when no users of the app are detected within a close range. Absolutely brilliant if you have a wife who doesn’t make any adjustments via the app when the house is empty all day…Overall, it can be an expensive system to set up and might be a bit daunting for some, but read up as much as you can. I can’t see it being a regretful decision to install these for most people in more modern houses or with large systems.

Sleek design so they disappear in the room but have a simple classy display when you want to check or adjust the temperature. The Tado system is great with an intuitive and informative app that offers full control of your heating system with the ability to set schedules for different zones of the house. I have 5 of these thermostats controlling my underfloor heating throughout the ground floor and it works great with radio thermostats upstairs all controlled through the same app. For a more complex setup like mine I’d recommend getting a heating engineer to set it up as some of settings had to be altered to make if all work harmoniously and required technical conversations with Tado support. Great notifications for battery health, open window detection etc and can easily be controlled by Alexa. Great product