Best Wifi enabled thermostat

Best Wifi enabled thermostat

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shady lee

962 posts

183 months

Monday 13th August 2018
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ST-Alex said:
I have an Ideal Vogue boiler which the plumber wired up standard with my Tado. I found out both supported opentherm so wired it as opentherm myself. Just needs two wires changing at both ends and a quick call to Tado who instantly changed the Tado to work as opentherm. It's low voltage, no mains required at Tado as it runs from batteries which last about a year and you get an email telling you when the batteries are running low.

Edited by ST-Alex on Monday 13th August 19:14
Ideal vouges worth the extra over the logic +?

dmsims

6,541 posts

268 months

Monday 13th August 2018
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ST-Alex said:
and a quick call to Tado who instantly changed the Tado to work as opentherm.
Does not compute!

and if Tado go bust?

ST-Alex

188 posts

148 months

Monday 13th August 2018
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shady lee said:
Ideal vouges worth the extra over the logic +?
I went with the Vogue for the 10 year warranty (with the filter installed) I also like the pretty colour screen on it! Other than that I have no idea what the differences are. I can say that I'm very happy with it.

ST-Alex

188 posts

148 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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If anyone needs a Tado Extension kit they are on offer with O2 as well at £39.99.
Tado Extension Kit £39.99

ADogg

1,349 posts

215 months

Tuesday 14th August 2018
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I went for Drayton Wiser and I’m happy still...

CharlieH89

9,080 posts

166 months

Wednesday 15th August 2018
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ST-Alex said:
If anyone needs a Tado Extension kit they are on offer with O2 as well at £39.99.
Tado Extension Kit £39.99
Right, bit of help if people would be kind.
I’ve got a Vaillant combi boiler in the kitchen.
Underneath it wired is the receiver and I have a thermostat which we take everywhere around the house with us, bought from the plumbcentre.

I bought the Tado starter kit v2 back in July when it was £40. Not yet set up as the heating hasn’t been on at all.

Do I need the extension kit that o2 have on offer atm?

B17NNS

18,506 posts

248 months

Wednesday 15th August 2018
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CharlieH89 said:
Right, bit of help if people would be kind.
I’ve got a Vaillant combi boiler in the kitchen.
Underneath it wired is the receiver and I have a thermostat which we take everywhere around the house with us, bought from the plumbcentre.

I bought the Tado starter kit v2 back in July when it was £40. Not yet set up as the heating hasn’t been on at all.

Do I need the extension kit that o2 have on offer atm?
I think so yes. You can either wire the stat to the boiler or use the stat wirelessly linked to the extension kit (this needs to be wired to the boiler).

CharlieH89

9,080 posts

166 months

Wednesday 15th August 2018
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B17NNS said:
CharlieH89 said:
Right, bit of help if people would be kind.
I’ve got a Vaillant combi boiler in the kitchen.
Underneath it wired is the receiver and I have a thermostat which we take everywhere around the house with us, bought from the plumbcentre.

I bought the Tado starter kit v2 back in July when it was £40. Not yet set up as the heating hasn’t been on at all.

Do I need the extension kit that o2 have on offer atm?
I think so yes. You can either wire the stat to the boiler or use the stat wirelessly linked to the extension kit (this needs to be wired to the boiler).
I was thinking that might be the case. Had only bought the plumbcentre thermostat a few months back too for £70.
Might just sell the Tado starter kit instead of throwing myself down the black hole which would include buying TRVs hehe

B17NNS

18,506 posts

248 months

Wednesday 15th August 2018
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CharlieH89 said:
Might just sell the Tado starter kit instead of throwing myself down the black hole which would include buying TRVs hehe
Amazon dropped the TRV's to £35 in August of last year. I'm hoping for a repeat of that.

Arranguez

360 posts

74 months

Saturday 18th August 2018
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No experience of the Vaillant system then? Doesn’t look as good (visually) as Tado, but better than Evo Home IMO.

shady lee

962 posts

183 months

Saturday 18th August 2018
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Arranguez said:
No experience of the Vaillant system then? Doesn’t look as good (visually) as Tado, but better than Evo Home IMO.
Im not a fan of own brand boiler thermostats, they always seem to be lacking in features.

Ideal has the "touch", vokera has the "be smart" and so on...

All of the own brand thermostats seem to look dated after 1yr and there's never any updates, if you're reading this forum then I'd think you want something abit more modern and cool.

Nest,tado and the rest

shady lee

962 posts

183 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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Thinking of adding a few zoned sensors to my evohome setup, just in some rooms where the trv is abit blocked.

Maybe the y87.



It links with the trv in that zone and becomes the master temperature sensor, can also be turned up or down in that zone by the y87 even if the trv is locked out. (Kids playing with it etc).

The dt92e won't work if the trv is locked, but it seems the y87 will.


dickymint

24,416 posts

259 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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^^^ Shady you really need to go to rehab and ween yourself off the Evocaine hehe

shady lee

962 posts

183 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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dickymint said:
^^^ Shady you really need to go to rehab and ween yourself off the Evocaine hehe
Think I'm bored.....lol

dmsims

6,541 posts

268 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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shady lee said:
even if the trv is locked out. (Kids playing with it etc).
You know that you can disable local override ?

dickymint

24,416 posts

259 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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dmsims said:
shady lee said:
even if the trv is locked out. (Kids playing with it etc).
You know that you can disable local override ?
Shhhhhhhh...... he needs his fix wink

Jobbo

12,973 posts

265 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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Looks a good way of doubling your Evohome system cost, Shady!

shady lee

962 posts

183 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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dmsims said:
shady lee said:
even if the trv is locked out. (Kids playing with it etc).
You know that you can disable local override ?
Yeah that's what I meant, with the local overide on the trv disabled you can still turn the y87 on the wall and change the zone temp.

If that makes sense...

shady lee

962 posts

183 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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Jobbo said:
Looks a good way of doubling your Evohome system cost, Shady!
Maybe I need to reinstall wiser.....

Evohome works far too well, I've nothing to faff with lol

B17NNS

18,506 posts

248 months

Sunday 19th August 2018
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dickymint said:
Shhhhhhhh...... he needs his fix wink
It's a gateway drug. Next it will be Philips Hue. Lines of lightstrip at £70 a go soon gets expensive biggrin