#Smartthings smartapp thermostat scheduling plus
#Smartthings smartapp thermostat scheduling free
#Smartthings smartapp thermostat scheduling windows

#Smartthings smartapp thermostat scheduling windows

It would be FAR more useful if we could use windows and doors to trigger actions that make sense to us.

#Smartthings smartapp thermostat scheduling plus

The existing Tado thermostat driven attempt to deal with open windows has too many false positives for us to even consider the subscription option, plus it would be too out of our control. I really expected that they'd understand that customers are looking for door/window sensors to work with their heating. It seems crazy that they're not considering adding sensors. When a sensor is triggered, then heating set to OFF.' Smart Home systems like Amazon Echo Alexa, or Apple Homekit, can be set to, for example: The interaction you want can be achieved by connecting tado°, and another product, over a Smart Home system. We will not be releasing any window/door sensors, or plugs. 'tado° company is focused on heating and air conditioning. This week I asked Tado support whether they'll be adding door/window sensors to the product line, this is the response I received. I am also aware 'early adopters' might be more likely to be people with the skills needed to do that but arguably the smart home market has evolved a bit beyond the early adoption stage and now the majority of customers may not be your typical hacker profile. I am aware that in theory since Tado now have an API potentially customers could write such integration themselves. Since Tado are not it seems working on a big stream of new products this is perhaps an area where they could put more effort. (Technically Alexa and Google Assistant are not smart home platforms but rather they are smart assistants.)

I can accept they might not be able to do all of them or all at the same time but other than HomeKit and IFTTT arguable they have done none. Obviously the most desirable solution would be for Tado to improve their connectivity to various smart home platforms in general. However currently HomeKit does not support some functions - especially for the Tado AC v3 and therefore you still might have limitationsĮven the official Tado IFTTT channel has limitations. (Most other systems only do the opposite of converting non-HomeKit devices to be available to HomeKit.) You could therefore add Tado to HomeAssistant as a HomeKit device and again use MQTT between HomeAssistant and Smartthings. It is uniquely possible to add HomeKit devices to HomeAssistant.Once you have Tado working with HomeAssistant it is then possible to use MQTT on both HomeAssistant and Smartthings to allow Smartthings to use the HomeAssistant entries

In at least some of these cases these also have limitations but they might have fewer such issues than the Smartthings app I referred to.

#Smartthings smartapp thermostat scheduling free

There are some 'apps' for HomeAssistant a free open source smart home package which allow HomeAssistant to talk to Tado products.

Other than the third-party Smartthings app I mentioned above another potential approach is as follows.