Hi dear member of HA,i’m a relative newbie with ha and therefore also with automations and so on.
Now i have a specific situation,due to my working life i go away on monday morning and come home every friday afternoon/evening.
I recently installed the tado trv’s and 1 thermostat and one wireles sensor to automate my heating.
But i can’t figure out how to make an automation starting on monday at 5.00 till friday 16.00 and keeping my trv’s in the living room at a temp off 14 degrees and from fri 16.00 till monday during the day 21 degrees and of course at night a temp of 16 degrees,i also want to let the heating start with a target temp of that 21 degrees if that is possible?
Only time when i want it to come off that scedule is when i am home unexpectedly by geofencing maybe?
And off course i need to make other automations for shower and my 2 bedrooms,but first i want to get it working for the living room.
I hope that all is clear and i put it in the right section.
Any help is much aprreciated from me.
Hello terlouweric73,
One way is to install this,and use it for triggers.
Thank you for the tip,will investigate and report back.
Hey Eric,
What integration are you using with Tado? The one through the cloud or the one where you use the HomeKit?
Know that you can’t activate scenes (as Tado knows them) through the integrations so a way around that is setting the thermostat and valves to the states you want, and saving that to a ‘scene’ in HA. Some Documentation .
The way it works for me is that with the scenes we created in HA, we simply either use a button to activate it, or an automation checks what day it is (workday is a great addon!), what time it is and activates one of the scenes you created.
I’m not sure I follow what you are saying about your schedule. But know that any good heating system like Tado thinks ahead and uses learning algorithms, weather oredictions etc. to start heating/cooling cycles at the right time and in a way the temperature does not overshoot when it is at the setpoint. By setting the right temperature from Tado you’ll never get it that smart.
So, if your heating is to work as comfortably as possible, while conserving energy, it is best to have Tado control the entire heating schedule like if you are home all the time. Then use geofencing, window sensors, motion sensors or whatever to turn the heat down if that is wise. That way you can tweak heating on a per room basis, while fully utilising the intelligence insode the system.