JG Aura 2

Looks like the app was designed in the 00s, or was designed by someone who clearly isn’t a designer. It just about does it’s job of showing and setting thermostat temperatures, timers and so on, but it’s just really quite clunky. If your plumber didn’t give you any choice in what system you were getting then, like us, you’re stuck with it. Does the job, just about.

I purchased all the parts for this system and then read the reviews. I was a bit concerned as they were pretty negative. Having got everything up and running a couple of weeks ago im actually very impressed. Yes, its a little bit slow to update when you change a parameter, but this isnt a big problem at all. Overall very good.

On the whole I think that having the app makes life easier than tinkering with individual thermostats, especially if you have multiple rooms. My main gripes are: 1: Whilst you can adjust the temperature settings for each area temporarily say until the next time period, you can’t permanently do this on the app. So say you want the day time temp to be 21 and it’s currently set at 20 you could change it for that day for one or all areas on the app but if you wanted it to be a permanent adjustment you would have to do it on the thermostat- seems to defeat the point of having the app in my view. 2: The app is quite slow to show that it has adjusted the target temperature when you have changed it. Sometimes it might take a minute or two which makes you think it hasn’t worked. 3: Similar to point 2: the system is often quite slow to indicate that it has switched the heating on or off in response to your adjustments making it uncertain whether your inputs have worked or not. Sometimes this takes a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes. I have no frame of reference in respect of other heating systems but in my view I am a little bit disappointed to have spent all this money for a system that needs quite a few improvements. If they addressed these issues then I would be very happy.