tado Smart Thermostat User Guide

: June 7, 2024
: Tado

Table of Contents

Smarter heating with your Smart Climate Assistant
Specifications
Compatibility
Setup
References
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Smart Thermostat

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Smarter heating with your Smart Climate Assistant

tado° Smart Thermostats make your home more comfortable. Now your heating system can adapt to your life whilst becoming more efficient than ever before. The unique features of the Smart Climate Assistant enable you to save up to 31% on your heating bill. Completely automatically.

Geofencing
tado° uses the residents’ locations to automatically control the heating: it heats up when someone heads home and turns down when the last person leaves, so that no energy is wasted.
Multi-Room Control
tado° controls multiple heating zones and rooms separately.
Weather Adaptation
tado° adapts the way it heats using the weather forecast, making use of natural heat to save energy.
Specific features of the Smart Thermostat
Heating system alerts
tado° informs you about problems with your heating system. Get tips, alerts, and instant help for complete peace of mind.

Save Money
tado° saves up to 31% heating energy and pays for itself within a short period of time.
Smart Schedule
tado° provides full manual control as well as a detailed automatic schedule.
Open Window Detection
tado° recognizes sudden drops in temperature or humidity when a window is opened and turns the heating off temporarily to save energy.
Hot water control
tado° can also control your hot water: Set a schedule or let tado° manage it automatically.
(Depends on system compatibility. An Extension Kit may be required.)

Additional features
Control from anywhere:
have full access from your phone, tablet or computer.
Secure data: all communication encryption conforms to online banking standards.
Model predictive control: proprietary algorithms to optimize energy usage.

More control: see the current room temperature and humidity, and change the settings from anywhere, at anytime.
Auto-updates: always have the latest software and get new features for free.
Underfloor heating replaces current wired underfloor thermostats.2)

Insightful reports: instant access to your temperature and heating activity history for each zone.
Wireless: place the Smart Thermostat anywhere in the house. 1)
Building characteristics integration: tado° learns how fast your home warms up and cools down, so it always chooses the right time to start heating.

Additional features of the Smart Radiator Thermostat

Easy usage: change the temperature by turning the ring.
Synchronized: All Smart Radiator Thermostats in one room are synchronized.
Retrofitting: can be fitted to old or new radiators.

Specifications

General
• Sensors: temperature / humidity / ambient light

• Environmental certifications:
German engineered, production certified: ISO 14001 / ISO 9001 / BS OHSAS 18001 / EU RoHS compliant recyclable packaging

• Internet connection:
via a tado° Internet-Bridge connected to an ethernet port of the home’s internet router

• Radio communication (between devices):
868 MHz, Mesh (6LoWPAN)
• Warranty: 2-year limited warranty
• Data encryption:
TLS 1.2 (SSL), 2048-bit Extended Validation Certificate / TLS 1.2 (SSL), 256-bit elliptic curve encryption / AES-CCM encryption
• Product material and finish:
PC + ABS plastics / white, matte
• Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Czech

• Savings potential: based on a study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (Germany, 2013)

Smart Thermostat
• Power supply: 5-36 VDC 0.2 A / 4.5 VDC (3 AAA batteries, 1200 mAh, average life ~ 2 years)

• Interface: LED matrix 10 × 19 LEDs, 32 × 20 mm / buttons: 2× capacitive touch, 1× mechanical
• Dimensions (L × W × H):
Smart Thermostat 104 × 104 × 19 mm / Internet Bridge 81 × 27 × 22 mm /Extension Kit 102 × 150 × 28 mm

• Weight: Smart Thermostat 132 g / Internet Bridge 61 g / Extension Kit 210 g Smart Radiator Thermostat
• Power supply: 3 VDC (2 AA batteries, 2400 mAh, average life ~ 2 years)

• Interface: LED display, mechanical control ring

• Dimensions: Smart Radiator Thermostat (L × D) 78 × 52 mm / Internet- Bridge (L × W × H) 81 × 27 × 22 mm
• Weight: Smart Radiator Thermostat 178 g / Internet-Bridge 61 g

Compatibility

Thermostat Works with almost all systems:

combi, system and heat-only boilers
conventional and condensing boilers
electric underfloor systems (maximum switching the current of 6 A)
air source and ground source heat pumps (heating only)
zoned systems (one tado° Smart Thermostat per zone)
switched live systems
potential-free (dry-contact) systems
systems with low-voltage analog and digital bus interfaces

The Smart Radiator Thermostat works with the majority of radiator valves.

Connection M30 × 1.5 mm
Available for both vertical and horizontal valves
Set of adapters for the most common valves included

1)The tado° Extension Kit

Replaces two-channel programmers for hot water control.
Works as a wireless receiver for the heating system/boiler.

2)Additional Smart Thermostats
Control additional heating zones by replacing individual wired thermostats, including those for underfloor heating.

Smart Thermostat – Starter Kit

tado Smart Thermostat - Starter Kit

Inside the box:

tado° Smart Thermostat
tado° Internet Bridge
2× Sticky pads
3× AAA batteries
Housing screw
2× Wall mounting screws
2× Wall plugs
Labels for wiring
Power adapter
USB cable
Ethernet cable

tado Smart Thermostat - Inside the box Packaging:
Dimensions (L × W × H): 175 × 175 × 116 mm
Weight: 700 g

UK 4260328610633
CH 4260328610688
IT 4260328610640
ES 4260328610657
FR 4260328610664
BX 4260328610671

Smart Radiator Thermostat – Starter Kit

Inside the box:

2× tado° Smart Radiator Thermostat
2× 2 AA batteries
2× set of adapters
tado° Internet-Bridge
Power adapter
USB cable
Ethernet cable

Packaging:
Dimensions (L × W × H): 175 × 175 × 122 mm Weight: 1045 g

EAN:
UK horizontal 4260328610718

UK vertical 4260328610725

Smart Radiator Thermostat
tado Smart Thermostat - Smart Radiator 2
Inside the box:

tado° Smart Radiator Thermostat
2× AA batteries
Set of adapters

Packaging:
Dimensions (L × W × H): 175 × 88 × 60 mm
Weight: 330 g

EAN:
All Countries horizontal 4260328610589

All Countries vertical 4260328610596

Smart Thermostat
Inside the box:

tado° Smart Thermostat
2× Sticky pads
3× AAA batteries
Housing screw
2 Wall mounting screws
2 Wall plugs
Labels for wiring

tado Smart Thermostat - Inside 3

Packaging:
Dimensions (L × W × H): 175 × 175 × 55 mm Weight: 350 g

EAN:
All Countries 4260328610404

Extension Kit
Inside the box:

tado° Extension Kit
Cable
Terminal
Euroblock plug
RAST5 plug
2× Wall mounting screws
2× Wall plugs
Labels for wiring

Packaging:
Dimensions (L × W × H): 175 × 175 × 55 mm Weight: 550 g
EAN:
UK
4260328610084
All Other Countries
4260328610602

Setup

All tado° devices communicate wirelessly amongst one another and with the Internet Bridge, which plugs into the router to connect to the internet. Up to 25 devices can be added using one Internet Bridge. The Internet The bridge is included in every tado° Starter Kit.

tado Smart Thermostat - Setup

In Combination

The Smart Radiator Thermostats perfectly complement a tado° Smart Thermostat which controls the boiler.
As all the tado° devices communicate with one another, the boiler activity is aligned with the temperature control for individual rooms, which saves energy and provides even more comfort.

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