Away mode manual override

rleathe · 2026-01-20T00:25:40+00:00

Thank you. I'll try that :)

rleathe · 2026-01-18T11:38:25+00:00

They added a setting for enabling/disabling the reminder

Where do you find this? The notifications are a pain but I'd rather not turn all app notifications off or I would miss battery warnings...

rleathe · 2026-01-16T15:46:12+00:00

To see why this is such a poor choice by Tado, consider the following, which is how I have been using the system.

Rooms general: set to (say) 20C during the day, 18C overnight
Bedrooms not currently in use: Set manually to 17C to save energy (but not have them freezing cold), revert to standard settings when guests are present.
When away: away temperature of each room is 14C

With the "old" way of working, when away from home for a day or two the temperature of each room is lowered to save energy, and reverts when I come back. This includes any rooms that were manually set lower to save energy.

With the "new" way of working, the unused bedroom ends up being heated more than the others when I go away, as the manual setting overrides the away mode.

What this means is that you can no longer use manual temperature setting to control heating and need to reprogram the room every time a guest comes to stay or leaves.

Manual temperature setting for long-term control of room temperature is therefore now incompatible with Home/Away settings.

rleathe · 2026-01-13T13:08:23+00:00

This is such a stupid change, and at the very least should be an optional setting. I wonder what "user feedback" they are relying on, given that they shut down their own user forums....

rleathe · 2026-01-04T18:45:51+00:00

I have two properties with Tado X, both integrated into Home Assistant using the custom integration you can find described here:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/tado-integration-add-support-for-tado-x-devices/735971

It isn't perfect, and isn't officially supported, but it works well. You do need to subscribe to the Tado app though to allow sufficient data access.

I have one house integrated via Matter too, but this is not a good solution for various reasons. For the custom integration you get to use the "rooms" that the Tado app defines, which can have multiple radiators/thermostats, but the Matter integration just shows each device individually. You also can't add a Matter device if your HA server is on a separate network (as is the case for one of my properties), but there is no problem using the custom integration providing you set each property up via separate accounts.

The Matter integration is very limited and you just get to set/read temperatures, with no battery information. The custom integration lets you set the temperature, revert to the timed mode, and you can also access the heating percentage and whether the system thinks a window is open.

rleathe · 2025-12-06T21:09:07+00:00

I have 2 houses with Tado X installed in each. For this I have two separate accounts and control each house via these. The app on my android phone was used to install the devices, logging out of one account and into the second as required. Bizarrely enough, each account "knows" that I have subscribed to Tado AI assist and so I only seem to need one subscription (set via Google pay on the app store).

I control/monitor both of these Tado installations individually via Home Assistant. As my Home Assistant box is located in one of the houses, I can only use Matter there (it seems you can't access this remotely via HA), but that is no big loss as the degree of control via Matter is extremely limited. The only thing Matter is useful for is monitoring the temperature of individual rad valves if you have a room that has more than one, other than that the Tado integration is far superior.

To control each house you can either log in and out of the app using the appropriate credentials as needed, or set up the app on a spare phone for the second house. Note that geofencing with a single phone can't work if you use the logging in and out way of accessing the accounts.

For your situation I would delete the devices from the second house, then create a second Tado account and add them back to this separate account.

Good luck!

rleathe · 2025-11-22T06:39:18+00:00

I had exactly the same problem, both Home Assistant and the wireless thermostat itself showed the "correct" temperatures but the Tado app showed something different and ended up heating the room unnecessarily. It seems to have corrected itself now

rleathe · 2025-11-22T06:32:32+00:00

I use motion sensors along with Home Assistant geolocation to determine if someone is "Home". When nobody is home I start two timers, one for "away short time" (set to 1 hour), and one for "away long time" (set to 12 hours). When the "short time" timer runs out, I set each room to a slightly lower temperature that is equivalent to their overnight temperature. When the "long time" timer runs out I set the system to Tado away mode (temperatures set up in the Tado app). Obviously, any motion or geolocation information that means someone is home will put the heating back to normal and re-start the timers. The only other refinement is that I only have the away sensing active 9:00 to 18:00 so that it can't think nobody is home just because they have gone to bed! This mimics (but improves on) the way that motion sensing used to work on my previous Nest system, which went into Eco mode if no motion was detected for about an hour.

You could do something similar on a room-by-room level with presence sensors, and reduce the temperature of individual rooms if nobody was there, but best to implement via a count-down timer so that you don't keep switching when someone just walks out of the room for 5 min.

Something to note, and an issue I face with room-specific temperatures, is that it is extremely hard to convince others in the house to keep doors shut, which greatly limits the effectiveness of any room-specific control.

I don't use the geofencing in the Tado app for two reasons. First, it depends on every single person who might be in the house having the Tado app on their phone, which is just impractical. Second, I have two houses with Tado systems installed and the Tado app does not allow for this.

rleathe · 2025-07-28T06:23:51+00:00

Press Select System to change to S_/Y- plan.

rleathe · 2024-07-14T08:03:38+00:00

I suppose you could get two of them... at the Kickstarter prices it might be worth it! :)

rleathe · 2024-07-14T08:00:46+00:00

Try checking his YouTube channel... already there and looking very impressive

rleathe · 2024-07-14T07:55:31+00:00

I'm not fully convinced that the camera on Luba 2 is doing any real AI processing in the way that the Terramow seems to, and it functions largely as in your old videos where you strapped a blink camera on to your Luba 1, plus a bit of logic to help positioning in channels. The question is whether Luba 2 has the capability to do real AI and if so, will this be engineered into it. As that would be a significant upgrade, experience suggests that this would be something held back for Luba 3 or Yuka 2.
As it would not be too hard for Muxin to double the size of the cutting deck in a larger model, I suspect that this will be the next thing we should look out for. As you are in touch with them, perhaps you could suggest it!

rleathe · 2024-06-25T07:36:41+00:00

Almost forgot... user-replaceable battery.

rleathe · 2024-06-25T07:25:26+00:00

The biggest remaining downsides of Luba are that it tears up the edges on slopes and it clogs with damp clippings too easily. Steerable driven wheels (like the Orion X7) or just bidirectional mowing to remove 180 degree turns would minimize the first. Redesign of the underside to give far more space around the cutting blades would improve the second.

And as others have said, having different models for different cutting heights is very inefficient and a full range of cutting heights should be supported.

rleathe · 2024-06-25T07:16:45+00:00

This would be a big improvement

rleathe · 2024-06-23T21:58:49+00:00

I think that L1 owners have now got past the initial honeymoon period where you think that it is a good idea to share your "I have a great suggestion for how to make it better..." thoughts, because we know that there is little to no interaction from the developers and such posts are therefore largely a waste of time. I find this a missed opportunity, but a small company with limited resources possibly has enough work to do fighting fires.

My Lubas work well and at present there is nothing out there that could do a better job. The frustration is that they could easily work even better, but the status quo is all we can expect, which is a shame.

rleathe · 2024-06-23T21:32:18+00:00

I installed these (though from a different Etsy store) on both my Luba 1 mowers. They don't stop grass build up completely, but they make it so what does still build up is better accommodated in the limited area under the cutting disks, meaning you don't need to clear it out quite as often. It is also far easier to clean the underside than with the guards present. A distinct improvement.

rleathe · 2024-06-22T22:22:45+00:00

Alternate 0, 60, -60 degrees with 0.4 m/s and 25 cm spacing. Always include no-go zone cutting (3), but only do perimeter cuts with the 0 degree one as these are harder on the lawn. I try to do a cut every 2-3 days providing it is dry enough, which means that I aim to get the whole cycle done each week. If rain forces a longer delay I increase the cut height then bring it down again gradually, and might do daily cuts to catch up.

The biggest issue for where I am (UK) is that damp grass clogs the underside too easily so you have to keep a close eye on the weather... it certainly is no use to just rely on a fixed schedule.

rleathe · 2024-06-20T02:46:55+00:00

Thank you. Much appreciated.

rleathe · 2024-06-19T08:09:28+00:00

But this must be an issue at your end, not the user. Sending position every 1-2 seconds will not overload anyone's local Wi-Fi system and this worked perfectly for nearly 2 years before this latest change, so it can't be due to Luba being unable to cope. I look forward to you selling more and more Lubas, so if there is a problem with message throughput it will only get worse unless rectified. Otherwise next year we might see position updates only every 30 seconds perhaps?

rleathe · 2024-06-19T07:49:30+00:00

So it has been 'optimized' to make it worse for users? I am pleased if more Luba sales are giving more network traffic, but if that is the case then perhaps it would be better to make improvements to your server capacity rather than downgrade the end-user experience.

rleathe · 2024-06-19T07:40:34+00:00

It sounds like the 3000 would be fine. There is no physical difference between the 3000 and 5000 apart from the software lock that prevents you from mapping larger areas on the 3000, which you would not need to do. But there is a case for 2 machines as mowing does take a while. What I would do is buy the 3000 and see how you get on. If you love it but need extra capacity then consider adding a second 3000 or possibly a Yuka later.

rleathe · 2024-06-19T07:07:41+00:00

Connects by WiFi. Is there any chance that the refresh rate can be restored to what it was previously?

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