Setting Tado to Home / Away

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Is it possible to set a home’s Tado geofencing to home / away manually using Home Assistant as I can do manually in the Tado app? It looks like I set individual rooms to home / away using Home Assistant but I can’t work out how to do it for the home level.

Thanks in anticipation!

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Did you use the taro integration or the integration through Homekit?
The gist one has more options, but do know a bunch of features are only available on the TaDo app.

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I’m afraid I don’t really understand this question…

Do you mean Tado instead of Taro? What’s gist?

This is what shows in Home Assistant for me:

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Many thanks

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Yes I meant Tado, sorry autocorrect.
And the screenshot you are showing is the integration that is available, not the local interaction through Homekit. If it isn’t available with what you have, I’m afraid it isn’t possible.

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Yes you can.

template:
    - switch:
      - default_entity_id: switch.tadogeo
        state: '{{ is_state_attr(''climate.main_room'', ''preset_mode'', ''home'') }}'
        name: tadogeo
        turn_on:
          data:
            preset_mode: home
          target:
            entity_id: climate.main_room
          action: climate.set_preset_mode
        turn_off:
          data:
            preset_mode: away
          target:
            entity_id: climate.main_room
          action: climate.set_preset_mode
        icon: >-
          {% if is_state_attr('climate.main_room', 'preset_mode', 'home') %}
            mdi:radiator
          {% else %}
            mdi:radiator-off
          {% endif %}

This template exposes a switch that you can toggle on/off to control the geofencing mode.

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Well well look at me being wrong. Nice solution Jeroen.

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If I understand this correctly, it’s setting a Tado room’s (‘main_room’) mode to home / away rather than setting the whole home’s mode to home away?

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I used main room as an example here, you should be pointing the main climate device controlling your heating.

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Thank you, our home has Tado TRVs (one per room) so there’s not really a main device but I have discovered you can set the mode on any Tado room and that actually seems to set the mode at the home level. I was curious about what effect setting the mode at the room level would have as that’s not a concept that exists in the Tado app. It’s a bit odd but it gives me the home level mode setting that I thought I couldn’t have!

Thanks again

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Out of curiosity: what happens if you first set a TRV on ‘home’ and then one on ‘away’ what is the status the Tado app remembers?

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As stated above, there is only home level home away. So whatever TVR you set it on, the last command is what all TVR’s and the app see.

For room based presence I just set an override for the setpoint temperature, which is the only thing home/away does. It just does it for all TVR’s at the same time.When the occupant returns, I revert to automatic temperature.

Which is another reason I never set Home way by hnd and keep it on automtic. You can set Home and Away, but you cannot set Home/away to automatic using the integration afaik. I like to keep it on automatic, so I have Tado smart functions as backop when HA fails somehow.

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That is actually also quite a nice strategy! Thanks for the tip.

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I am looking to do similar I sometimes rent out my house on AirBNB. So I can use geofencing as I don’t want to have to manually enter the guests mobiles everytime and install the app on there mobiles.

I have two PIR sensors could I use your script to automate turning the heating to away and home? also when it gets set back to home (manually) how will it know to follow the schedule? ( let me know if I need to start a new thread!)

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If you are considering automating your Airbnb look into mmwave devices instead of pir. With mmwave you can sense occupancy, PIR does movement. Theoretically: if the tenants sit still in the sofa, your automation might turn off the heating.

What is shown can be used to set the geofencing mode. You can toggle it either manually or by using the an automation linked to your PIR/MMWave sensors. Eg: (bad one) if no-one is detected for 5 min, switch to ‘geo’.

If your phone is used for the geofencing, and the switch is set to geo, it will automatically set everything to the ‘yeh no-one is home’ settings you defined in tado.

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Thanks I have ordered one and will test it out!