tado° TV spot 2018 | Geofencing | The Smart Thermostat for your heating

The official tado° TV spot 2018 - Geofencing

The Smart Thermostat
tado° ensures a comfortable and healthy climate while saving up to 31% on your heating bill.

Geofencing
Never heat an empty home. Based on the residents' location, tado° notifies you to turn down your heating or to start warming the house before you arrive.

[richardsandwell]

Not for me, a nice trusty bimetallic thermostat set to ten degrees to stop my pipes freezing while I am away is fine, I can wear a woolly jumper on my return until the house gets warm.
We need to limit carbon emissions, these contraptions are technology just for technologies sake, they will end up using more fuel they probably only work if you have a smartphone, its all backward technology.
You need to pay a monthly connection fee no doubt for it, and then it is an environmental disaster with the electricity used up running servers to communicate the data flows to the stat.
Lastly, just like a lot of modern boilers and other heating equipment, they break down and go wrong, and it is not just a simple trip to Wickes to buy a new wall stat and connect three wires up, its an engineer call out to fix it, and few in today's Britain would be able to afford to get it fixed, without calling Quik Quid and getting in serious financial trouble.