Manufacturer | Mother HomeAutomation |
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Part Number | AC01-TC-US-03 |
Item Weight | 14.4 ounces |
Product Dimensions | 3.94 x 3.94 x 0.51 inches |
Item model number | AC01-TC-US-03 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Color | White |
Style | Modern |
Power Source | Corded Electric |
Voltage | 240 Volts |
Installation Method | Split System |
Item Package Quantity | 1 |
Display Style | Digital |
Special Features | heater |
Batteries Included? | No |
Batteries Required? | No |
Warranty Description | Limited 1year |
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Tado Smart Air Conditioner and Heater Controller, Wi-Fi, Compatible with iOS and Android, Works with Alexa
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Brand | Tado |
Special Feature | heater |
Color | White |
Voltage | 240 Volts |
Power Source | Corded Electric |
Item Weight | 0.9 Pounds |
Control Method | Voice |
Controller Type | ifttt, google_assistant, android, ios, amazon_alexa |
Installation Type | Split System |
About this item
- Works with Alexa for voice control (Alexa device sold separately).
- Connects your smartphone to your air conditioner or heat pump and turns it into a smart device. Experience a new level of comfort with automatic location-based AC control.
- Control your AC from anywhere with the tado° app: Turn it on and off or change the settings in the app from anywhere, at any time.
- Power supply: AC 120 / 240 Volts, 5 Volts USB power supply. Saves up to 40% on your AC energy costs. tado° can pay for itself in less than a year. The app gives you instant access to reports showing temperature and cooling activity as well as savings.
- Smart Home Integration: Control your AC with your voice, using Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, or bring products and web services together to create new scenarios with IFTTT. Free app for iOS, Android, and Windows
- The Smart AC Control works with all air conditioners with a remote control that displays the air conditioner’s current settings (for example mode, target temperature and fan speed).
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From the manufacturer
Headquartered in Munich, tado°, the European market leader in intelligent home climate control solutions, was founded in 2011. tado° revolutionizes the way energy is consumed at home. The tado° app uses geofencing to automatically adjust the temperature based on the residents’ locations. This enables households to significantly save on energy costs while reaching a higher level of comfort.
Designed in Munich. Assembled in the E.U.
tado° Smart AC Control - intelligent AC control with geofencing via smartphone
Time for Smart Air Conditioning
The tado° Smart AC Control connects your smartphone to your air conditioner or heat pump. Using your phone’s location, it automatically pre-cools before somebody gets home and turns off when everybody has left. You can also manually control your AC from wherever you are with the mobile app on your smartphone or tablet. This can reduce your AC energy costs.
The Smart AC Control controls the AC via infrared signals and connects to your home Wi-Fi. The installation is very easy. Because tado° can learn remote control.
commands via our leading teaching procedure, you can easily teach tado°.
the commands of your old remote control.
- Smart AC Control
- USB cable
- Power adapter
- Sticky pads x2
For remote-controlled air conditioners
Works with all air conditioners with a remote control that displays the air conditioner’s current settings (for example mode, target temperature and fan speed).
Supported brands: Daikin, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Toshiba, LG, General Electric, Samsung, Fujitsu and many more, as long as the remote is the type shown above.
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Control from anywhereTurn the AC on and off or change the settings in the app from anywhere, at any time. |
GeofencingUses your phone’s location to automatically adjust the AC, cooling down before you get home and turning off when you are away. |
Energy savingsSave on your AC energy costs. |
More comfortHave your home always at the perfect temperature - no schedules, no teaching, no need to remember to turn it off. tado° does all the work - automatically. |
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Insightful ReportsGet instant access to reports showing temperature and cooling activity, as well as your expected savings. |
Smart ScheduleSet personalized schedules with different temperatures at different times of the day to suit your needs. |
Multi-Room ControlControl multiple rooms from one app. If you have multiple ACs in different parts of your home, then you can set each one up with a Smart AC Control for independent multi-zone control from your phone. |
Supports heatingIf your air conditioner or heat pump can also act as a heater, the Smart AC Control will be able to control it. On colder days tado° preheats your home, so that it is nice and warm when you return. |
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ASIN | B010ACFKNE |
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Customer Reviews |
3.6 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #566,691 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen) #697 in Accessories (Home & Kitchen) |
Date First Available | June 14, 2015 |
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Product Description
The tado° Smart AC Control connects your smartphone to your air conditioner. Through the use of your phone’s location, it automatically pre-cools before you get home and turns off when you leave. Allowing you to control your air conditioner from wherever you are, it works with most remote-controlled air conditioners and connects to your home’s Wi-Fi.
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240 volts
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Customers like the appearance of the air conditioner, mentioning it has a nice design. They also appreciate the hardware, saying it looks really simple and elegant. However, some customers have reported issues with value and connectivity. They say the device is a waste of money, the app is not good at all, and the connectivity problems with the server are major. Customers also dislike compatibility, and controls. Opinions are mixed on quality and ease of setup.
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Customers are satisfied with the appearance of the air conditioner. They mention it has a nice design, a sleek box, and a stylish white design. They also appreciate the hardware, which was fairly well designed. The TADO control is plain, but yet well designed, and it's a perfect example of precision German engineering.
"...It looks really simple and elegant. I really like that. Especially compared to the flashy nest. The TADO control is plain but yet well designed...." Read more
"...is a small white square with a black line in bottom; I think it looks great and is very clean once installed;..." Read more
"...days of testing I can say that the control works just fine and it looks good but it has two mayor flaws: First, you can only pair one Tado control..." Read more
"pros:- control the AC from your phone- nice design.-cons:-..." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the performance of the air conditioner. They mention that it is reliable and solid, with manual mode being very reliable. They also say that it allows good control and is able to remotely control the AC.
"...In the long term, after you have set it up, it is very reliable, and allows a good control of the units; In this year I had to reset the units no..." Read more
"...OVERALL, A VERY DEPENDABLE AND SOLID SYSTEM THAT DOES EXACTLY WHAT IS PROMISED. I recommend the Tado." Read more
"The product is OK, but it does have many deficiencies. The user interface and mobile application is terrible...." Read more
"...in general, bat support, ok product, limited functions and very very very bad UI" Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the air conditioner. Some mention that it works great, is very useful, and works forever, while others say that it never worked great, not all the commands work, and the functionality set is limited. Some say that the product failed after just 10 months.
"...In the case of Alexa, it works great to turn the units off; but if you need (like me) to use the AC in Cool mode and also in Heat mode, you can only..." Read more
"...Unfortunately it does not work with all air conditioners...But good to know in advance. So before buying it, have a look at their homepage...." Read more
"...The overall of the product is good, but theese kind of disconforts are a little more common than i whish, i ended up buying Smart Plugs so i can..." Read more
"...playing with the smart scheduling to see what it does - it’s fun and useful at the same time...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the ease of setup. Some mention that it's easy and fast to set up, while others say that it is a little bit complicated. The app to control it is very intuitive and has cool features. However, some customers find the product a bit complicated to set and needs a lot of work. They also mention that the control did not have the proper commands to control their Lennox Split A/C.
"...I was planning on giving this a 3 star review, however the egregious software design and ridiculous setup process made me retract even those 2 extra..." Read more
"...It is really well explained. You can choose your AC brand and it tells you if it is already in the database...." Read more
"...Like just put buttons cause the touch controls is a mess and not logical. Needs an entirely new software for the current hardware...." Read more
"...to setup the second unit; this unit was a nightmare, as the process got stuck and I couldn’t find the way to reset the process; I almost lost all..." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the value of the air conditioner. They mention that the app is not good at all, the device feels cheap, and the used is terrible. Some say that it didn't live up to expectations and that the user experience in the software is low quality.
"...Extremely disappointed by how low quality the user experience is in the software and how limited the functionality set is." Read more
"...Also, the touch capability on the Tado unit is pretty useless. It never registers touches consistently and is not worth attempting...." Read more
"...I feel that this decision is short sighted and wasted all the hard work previously done to integrate units. Did they offer me a refund?..." Read more
"This device, and the support that comes with it is absolutely horrible...." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the connectivity of the air conditioner. They mention that it has major connectivity problems with their server, and it has trouble connecting to their system regularly. Some customers also say that the controller is difficult to pair with their AC remote and that it would not catch all the signals.
"...devices "give up" the connection, they just, stop trying to connect to the wifi, i have to manually reboot them." Read more
"...It was faulty and would not hold a signal to my wifi. But as long as you get a working unit, it's pretty fast to set up...." Read more
"Major connectivity problems with their server. So...your AC may be on--or off--for an indefinite period while you wait to re-establish contact...." Read more
"...It wouldn't catch all the signals and was very frustrating to go back and edit. The app also had no concept of 2 digit jumps...." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the compatibility of the air conditioner. They mention that the update has removed compatibility with their window units and RCA a/c. They also say that the unit no longer allows them to configure it after the firmware update.
"...During the initial setup, the unit went into a firmware update. This update process lasted almost one and a half hours!!!!...." Read more
"...the growth of new non display window units but they deleted ALL compatibility with the units they had already worked with...." Read more
"...but don't believe their website comparability claims, our unit is not compatible...." Read more
"...Their update removed my A/C setup and now it no longer lets me configure the A/C unit...." Read more
Customers dislike the touch controls on the air conditioner. They say the touch interface isn't intuitive, responsive, and never registers touches consistently.
"...The touch interface on it isn't very intuitive nor responsive, but most of us probably aren't getting this to have an alternate remote we have to..." Read more
"...Like just put buttons cause the touch controls is a mess and not logical. Needs an entirely new software for the current hardware...." Read more
"...It never registers touches consistently and is not worth attempting. The Sensibo doesn't have one and that's fine with me...." Read more
"...You will not have it here.Touch on the device is the worst.." Read more
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First things first, this unit functions as an IR remote. It connects to Wifi and relays commands via IR to AC units to control them. That's about all it has going for it, that it can blast IR signals to my AC. The touch interface on it isn't very intuitive nor responsive, but most of us probably aren't getting this to have an alternate remote we have to poke at to control our portable AC units.
Let's talk about setup.
I unboxed the unit and followed the setup instructions, which involve downloading an app available on Google Play and the App Store. I started on my Android Nexus 6P. Followed the instructions to connect to the wifi network that the Tado had created--connected just fine--but no dice, the app could not communicate with the Tado to set up wifi for the unit itself. Rinse and repeat miscellaneous troubleshooting for about 30 minutes before I just give up. I try the iOS app, and that one is able to successfully configure the wifi network for the Tado.
Next, I'm asked to configure my AC unit. I have an LG LP1415SHR. This unit isn't in the database, so I'm asked to teach Tado how to operate it. No problem.
This AC unit supports the following modes: Heating, Cooling, Dry, and Fan.
It also has 3 fan speeds: Low, Medium, High
It also has adjustable vanes: On and Off.
It also has adjustable temperature from 60F to 86F
You might be wondering why I'm listing out all the specs of my AC unit. To teach Tado, I needed to teach it 156 separate "commands" just for the heating mode, and another 156 commands for the cooling mode. Luckily in Dry and Fan mode, there are no temperature options.
This in itself is a bit of a set back, but ultimately not the reason why I consider the software crippled. Each one of these are configured in a run.
For cooling, I had 6 runs:
Vane On, Fan Low
Vane On, Fan Medium
Vane On, Fan High
Vane Off, Fan Low
Vane Off, Fan Medium
Vane Off, Fan High.
Each one of these runs consists of 26 individual temperature commands, from 60 to 86 degrees. In doing one of these runs, the unit inevitable fails to pick up at least 2-3 commands (repeating the command does nothing, I just have to wait about 15 seconds or so for the unit to timeout and give me an option to retry the last command. After finishing a run, I'm given the option to test all of the commands that I just saved. As of now, I've had about 2 out 3 runs have at least one failed command. You're not given an option to edit one command out of a run, if one of them fails you have to redo the entire run. Suddenly, of the 156 commands I need to do to teach it one mode, I now need to do 468 commands, since inevitably I have to repeat each run multiple times, and this is just for the cooling mode. If I tack on the heating mode, now I need to do well over 900 commands.
Which brings me to another design failure. You're unable to edit command sets. Meaning that you have to complete this all at once. If you leave out one of the modes now, you'll have to completely restart this procedure in the future to add that additional mode.
As of the writing of this review, I'm well into 6 hours spent just trying to set this unit up. After finally getting through all of the programming, it finally attempts to download the command set to the Tado unit. For me, this had a spinning circle for about 30 minutes before I finally unplugged the device and power cycled it. This left the unit and my mobile app in a perpetual limbo state where the mobile app thought the unit was downloading a command set, and the unit was in a configuration mode waiting for instructions from the mobile app. I finally find my way onto the tado.com website, where I find a reset button in the settings, which successfully resets the device, but leaves back at square 1. Great.
Going beyond the setup, I'm feeling a bit misled by this. The marketing material makes claims about how its smart and etc, however the only thing I can see is the ability to configure schedules. I can't set any temperature based controls. For example, if my AC unit is set to 70 degrees, the compressor kicks in until the temperature falls below 70 degrees. After that point, the fan stays on until the temperature rises above 70, where it triggers the compressor again. I had wanted to have Tado turn off the unit entirely after it hit my set temperature so I don't waste power on running a fan when it's not needed. No way of doing this in the app.
For such an expensive control unit, I expected far more. Extremely disappointed by how low quality the user experience is in the software and how limited the functionality set is.
So I needed this unit because the competitors don't support frigidsire and don't have a manual setup i.e. Setting up each button press from the remote manually so the device can "record" them (or so I was told / researched). Also this device is the only one that connects to IFFT so I can use voice commands from alexa. If You don't have these same requirements or aren't savvy with this stuff then don't get this device or be warned - setup is a nightmare.
Had to set this up like 4 times. Keep that remote close when recording and if the server or device and app get out of sync, start the recording over again for the entire heat or cooling cycle. For my purposes I did not record low and high settings (I never use these cause I have auto). So in the end I did cool and high auto only and only for the temperature range I realistically use. Cut down on the setup a little but again I had to do this 4 times to figure this out and actually get it working.
The hardware control is retarded. Like just put buttons cause the touch controls is a mess and not logical. Needs an entirely new software for the current hardware.
I'd like to see integration with wink hubs. Otherwise now I can set timers schedules and geofencing and control ac heating with Alexa!. Hoping updates will make this more reliable.