
iT500 Plus 4+
Salus Limited
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
iPhone Screenshots
Description
The SALUS iT500 Smartphone controlled thermostat gives you the freedom to control your heating at anytime from anywhere. The iT500 App has some great features:
• Choose from three preset heating schedules for quick set up or create your own.
• Hot water scheduling with three on/off times and up to 3 hours boost function.
• Simple to add heating schedules. Choose from ALL, 5/2 or INDIVIDUAL days.
• Geo-location alerts when you are a set distance from your home, reminding you to set holiday mode or asking if you would like to turn the heating on so that you return to a warm home.
• With easy to follow walk through tutorials on how to use the App.
SALUS iT500 supports iPhone 4 and higher and iOS7+.
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What’s New
Version 2.1.7
1. General Improvement
2. Bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Buggy and not a team player
I have has a Salus IT500 for a few years now and recently added a second zone to split my heating upstairs/downstairs.
The thermostat itself is fine and seems good quality and the app is pretty easy to use (TBH I almost never use the physical thermostat and mostly use the app instead).
There are however some glaring issues, the main one being that the app crashes nearly every time it’s opened. In fact, it happens so often that I now assume it will crash before I can use it. It’s been like this for at least a year - seemingly Salus are unable or unwilling to fix it.
The second issue is that the app doesn’t connect with any other applications, IFTTT, forget it. This means that you can’t really do anything clever and you basically just have a remote control for your heating. This wouldn’t be so bad if the app’s resident location functionality worked (which it doesn’t).
If I had my time again I’d opt for a more expensive smart thermostat from a different supplier.
Finally improving
After a frustrating year with this I have updated the app a few times and am happy to say it is improving. It crashes must less, the hot water boost works and it’s generally better/faster. I still find myself manually adjusting the temperature a lot though (sensitivity issue for me - see below). 3.5 stars if I could give it that.
I do still lose a controller every now and then, taking the batteries out resolves (no use if you’re not at home tho!). And it’s annoying you still have to use all three hot water on/off times.
It would also be good to be able to toggle the sensitivity- if you set the temp to 20, it doesn’t turn the heating off until the temp is 21 etc. For me that is about an hour of over heating and half an hour later the controller registers another degree warmer even after the heating is off. I have a very well insulated house with small radiators though...
Glitchy
It’s good for when you’re out of the house & want the heating put on for you getting home. Other times it’s a nightmare. Today for example it wouldn’t knock the heating off. It kept switching it back on no matter how many times I checked it was off. The heating has been on constantly for 4 hours. 😤 there hasn’t been an update for the app in over 4 years & the developers don’t seem interested in fixing any glitches or updating the software.
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Information
- Provider
- Salus Limited
- Size
- 22.3 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © Salus Controls 2012
- Price
- Free