Integrate air conditioning in HomeKit with Tado

Most air-conditioning devices on the market can be programmed to turn on and off at a given time, but if you want one more turn and be able to automate actions and decisions on and off or ask your voice assistant to lower temperature 2 degrees more I’ll tell you in this entrance. how to integrate air conditioning in HomeKi t with Tado v3 +.

First of all I must say that There are cheaper solutions than the Tado to convert your air conditioning to split in a crazy’smart‘or connected. There are people who do it through the Broadlink, which also allows to connect other devices that operate by IR such as television, the cleaning robot, etc., and then integrate it with HomeKit through free and free solutions such as HomeBridge. You kill several birds with one shot in terms of automation, but integrated

n with HomeKit using an intermediate platform does not just convince meI don’t want to have any more crazies always on at home, though. HomeBridge can work on a Raspberry Pi or on a Synology NAS For example, so if you already have these crazies at home you don’t have to put anything else on.

You know, as far as possible, I try to make all devices in my house compatible with HomeKit in a native way.. One thing is flashear a device like we did with the Shelly. And another has to install an entire integration platform, so I prefer to look for devices that integrate in a simpler way… like the case of the Tado v3 +.

In addition, there are rumors that the people of Tado are going to present a new device at this year’s IFA (2020, the year of the COVID-19), so The current model is on offer. I bought it a couple of months ago in 88 €due to a previous offer and at the time of writing this entry is at your minimum historical price in Amazon: €72.

Before I put us in flour, I must say that There is an important PERO or TRA: it does not allow to have ‘satellites’ to control several devices, so if we have 2 air-conditioning caches in different rooms we will have to buy 2 Tado. It’s true that they then integrate smoothly and you can automate separate actions or ask your voice assistant to turn on one of the two and put it at us what temperature… but €72 x 2 already makes you think twice before you buy it. If you only have one device, it doesn’t look so expensive.

There’s more ‘buts’ I see him, but then I tell you:)

Physical installation

The presentation is very good, it’s practically integrated with any environment and it goes through any other small pants or centrifuite we have on the wall. such as central heating, alarm or any other similar device. Besides, The pants are tactile, so if we have guests at home or we don’t carry the mobile hand or if we just go ahead and we want to change the temperature or turn the device on manually We can do it without a problem. That’s right, the pants are capacitative and you have to press to detect us and change the values, don’t think it’s like the screens we have on the mobile actuale

s. This is probably one of the things that will improve in the next model.

Another thing that doesn’t just convince me is wiring. I’d like you to carry batteries, so I could put it anywhere on the wall without using a close plug.. Yes, the cable is USB, so if you have a plug you can connect it directly to the light but you could also connect it to any other device that is always on and that has USB port (in my case it is connected to the router of the operator), but remember that must have a direct view of the air conditioning device in order to interact with it So you’ll have to think where you put it.

That’s right. the fixation on the wall is the simplest with double-sided tape It’s already included. The cable goes through a small notch in the chassis, so the whole device supports the wall.

Settings

Once the installation process is started through the Tado App, you will be asked the brand of your air conditioning and the remote control model (in my case I put it behind you)… and that’s it, you will send some test commands to check that you have a direct view of the cache and that you can interact with it. That’s right. Depending on the air conditioning model you have you can show several configuration schemes, so in some cases you’ll have to try several until you get the right one. In my case, with an air conditioning Fujitsu, five different schemes were coming out, one of them recommended… well, the recommended one did absolutely nothing.

more than «poking ‘the air conditioning, but it didn’t turn it off or anything. I think I hit the third.

When you’ve already turned it on and you’re fresh (or warm if your air conditioning has a heat pump as Tado can change the way), then you can browse the mogollon of options and Tado configurations, some of them MUY chulas like these I detail below:

– Open window detection: It is a past how well this does, and not because it interacts with any other sensor of doors and windows, but because the cache detects sudden changes in the temperature and humidity of the room and asks you if you have opened a window, being able to automate the air to not spend light on bucket while there is an open window. If you don’t want to automate it, he’ll ask you anyway when he detects this.

– Configure the distance to know you’re out of the house!!!!: This functionality should be adopted by Apple for Home Since we’ve checked a lot of times that you have to get away from your house enough to make Apple think you’re out of the house. Instead, from the Tado app you can adjust this distance so that the cache knows when to consider you out of the house and when not! In fact, you can tell him that when you’re connected to the wifi of your house I consider you ‘at home’, but if you’re not connected I consider you outside. One pass, I think Apple should take note of this:

With regard to integration with HomeKit and the Apple House app there is absolutely nothing to do, once configured, it will automatically appear in the Home app and you can handle it from both here and the Tado app

Conclusion

If I have to be 100% honest with you (I always am), do not expect energy savings when buying the Tado, even though on its website they ‘sell’ it like this. You’re supposed to automate it so it’s efficient and always keep the house at the right temperature, turning off when it’s not necessary… but do you really need that air conditioning thing? Since I have the Tado my air conditioning is on MUCH longer than before, with consequent energy spending. Now, when I get home and it’s hot, it’s automatically turned on… that makes it great, but I really need 5 minutes before I get there to get going? Air conditioning d

And this guy takes very little time to cool down the rooms, I don’t know… and the same thing when I go, it’s always nice that the house is at the right temperature… but I don’t know if it’s worth it to be on and off all day by the time I get home at night.

Peeeero, If you want to be able to automate certain actions or handle air conditioning by voice wizard or from your mobile, then it’s perfect.. It works very well and the touch screen is a plus that makes it more comfortable for visitors or inhabitants of our house who do not want to get into these problems and prefer to continue to turn on and off the air as usual.

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