I am a long time user of tado thermostats. One of them is in the living room and for a while I will keep that. A few others I used in homekit merely as a switch that would enable any one to set the temperature and the automation I used just read the “current heating cooling state” to decide to switch a IR panel on or off using a smart switch, when the motion sensor detected presence.
For my simple case it already looks great. Now find a way to make it respond to a movement detector to set the temp on comfy when someone is in the room.
What are other future ex tado users thoughts about using this to replace the hardware?
Hee Chantal, nice to meet you here.
yes, it might be an option, when it becomes available, for the regular heating.
For the other rooms in my house, that control the Infra Red panels for their room, the Generic Thermostat helper is very close to what I want.
My current challenge on those is: make the temperature switch to comfortable when movement is detected in the room and of course, switch back to low when presence is no longer detected.
Lately I had many internet disconnect due to kernel panics in the internet router so the dependency on cloud services already is painfully clear.
Most thermostats will have a delay on action requests.
They are most of the time in sleep mode, because the thermostats are often running on batteries.
They wake up at intervals and execute the requested actions.
No problem with that …… it must not be for hours.
The wireless thermostats I have can easily be replaced by the generic thermostat helper. The only drawback is that there is no simple clean thing with buttons to choose a temperature.
A simple automation should be able to switch from saving mode to comfy when present in the room.