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TADO: Individual room heating functionality unavailable AI Assist subscription
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Warm regards,
Warm regards,
Your tado° Team
Your tado° Team
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====Individual room heating functionality unavailable AI Assist subscription====
On 2025-10-16, Tado update a help article about <ref name="ai assist help">
{{cite web
|first=Tado
|last=Help
|title=What is AI Assist?
|url=https://help.tado.com/en/articles/12182463-what-is-ai-assist
|website=Tado
|date=2025-10-16
|access-date=2025-10-16
|url-status=live
|archive-url=https://archive.ph/Bov9I
|archive-date=2025-10-16
}}</ref> about newly introduced functionality to heat specific rooms. To do this, the software uses AI to learn the room's heating and cooling profile, and this so-called "Adaptive Heating" is locked behind an AI Assist paywall.
Several users on r/Tado<ref name="ai assist reddit 1o4p796">
{{cite web
|first=EVERYTHINGGOESINCAPS
|last=u/
|title=Paywall on room control?!?
|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1o4p796/paywall_on_room_control/
|website=Reddit
|date=2025-10-12
|access-date=2025-10-17
|url-status=live
|archive-url=https://archive.ph/erCmB
|archive-date=2025-10-17
}}</ref><ref name="ai assist reddit 1o5k7n6">
{{cite web
|first=lentil_burger
|last=u/
|title=Tado X TRVs - subscription requirement confirmed
|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1o5k7n6/tado_x_trvs_subscription_requirement_confirmed/
|website=Reddit
|date=2025-10-13
|access-date=2025-10-17
|url-status=live
|archive-url=https://archive.ph/fRXi5
|archive-date=2025-10-17
}}</ref> have noted this change, with one waking up to find none of his radiators were working.
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So I've just spent shy of £800 on getting individual room control set up throughout my house, with individual room control etc.
Today I woke up to NONE of my radiators working, and it looks like due to a free trial of the AI I didn't realize that the ability to call for heat is BEHIND A PAYWALL.
Has anyone else hit into this? Why is this not made clear (or have I been stupid and completely missed this?)
Is there an alternate way to manage this/set this up without an additional £50 a year in cost, before I strip everything off my radiators and find
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Another Tado user confirmed the subscription requirement.
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Gave up waiting for their support team to have the courtesy to respond to questions and called their installer helpline (the only remaining way to speak to a human). They confirmed a subscription is required for TRVs to call for heat. They weren't able to confirm whether this would be applied retrospectively.
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