Tado° thermostat integration : how to?

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Hi there !

I am installing openHAB, integrating my various pieces of equipment and I was wondering how to integrate my Tado° smart thermostat. I can see there are no binding for it (yet), and I don’t have the knowledge to develop one myself.
Does anyone has succeeded in integrating the Tado thermostat with openHAB ?
Or any other alternative such as replacing a thermostat by thermostatic valves + rules ?

Thanks for your input,

S.

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Tado° seems to be very shy about providing public links to the API information (I just looked). If you used my.openHAB, you could integrate between openHAB and Tado° using IFTTT, but ideally they would offer up better information about their API publicly, aside from just a press release, so there could be an openHAB binding developed for it. If they send me a test unit and all the information, I might consider developing it myself! (I’m going to need a European thermostat for a split system heat pump in the next month or two).

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Hi Watou,

thanks for your quick reply. I am actually using my.openhab but I excluded using IFTT: I don’t want to rely on yet another external provider and build my “home” automation on external services without any SLA. That said, Tado° API will certainly be a web API, not a local API, so the problem on relying on external services remains.
I will contact them and talk to them about supplying you with a test unit. I’ll keep you posted ! :wink:

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Thanks, Serge! Perhaps a Tado° binding would not be too different from the Nest and Ecobee ones I wrote earlier. They are both very good thermostats, but they were primarily designed with North American HVAC systems in mind. The Tado° might be just what I’m looking for, for a modern European heating system. Feel free to give them my email at john at cocula dot com. Thanks very much!

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Hi,

I’m really interested on tado, especially the new thermo valves (Q3 2016).

It seems much better than Danfoss solution (based on z-wave).

Andrea

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Good morning to all. I’m a newby in openhab, but I am a news that maybe can interest someone. I connected my TaDo thermostat (read only) with openhat with the next item:

Number TaDo_Temperature “TaDo [%.1f °C]” (GrLiving) { http="<[https://my.tado.com/api/v1/home/my_home_id/hvacState?password=my_password&username=my_mail:30000:JSONPATH($.insideTemperature.celsius)]" }

Replace:

Reading the JSON response you can find other values instead temperature.

I hope to be useful for someone.

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