I’m brand new to Home Assistant, and I’m learning fast - so please go easy on me
I’ve been using Tado in my house for many years, and it’s great. So I used the Tado Integration (which was auto discovered when I setup my HA last week). I followed the integration instructions, authenticated and it imported all my Tado devices. However, it split some entities into different rooms, for example adding 6 sensors in one room called bedroom and another 2 sensors in a duplicate room also call bedroom - the Tado TRVs have about 8 entities each. It was a mess and so I decided to delete the integration and try again another time.
Last night I was brave enough to try again. This second time, the Tado integration skipped many of the steps it did on the first setup, and after authenticating with my Tado online account it pulled through 200 entities, which was about right based on the number of Tado devices I have in my home. But it didn’t auto assign the rooms like it did the first time - this wasn’t a major issue because the first time round it messed it all up. However, every entity is not editable, I have no options to access any of entity configuration, so I can change name, location or anything. HA then placed all 200 entities on the dashboard under binary.sensor_[Tado sensor type].
I deleted and tried repeating a couple of times, each getting the same result. I’m wondering is HA is folding any hidden config from that first install attempt - I assume it must do and it’s never asked me again for my Tado credentials, but there’s also no application credentials presence under the integration. As I say, I’m very new and not massively techie, but if anyone can give me some guidance, I would be very appreciative
Just to answer this part. No a sensor is not editable.
They are sensors so they report what the state is on the device, and you can not change that by just editing the sensor.
You need to either find a switch that does something or a climate entity.
So the sensor is kind of the indicator light, and although you could remove the light it will still not change the state of the device.
I would assume it’s the climate entities you need to find. Either through the device page or developer tools → states.
You can obviously place them on the dashboard later, but just find the correct entities first, no need to dump in 200 entities on the dashboard if they are just sensors.
Hi Hellis, Thanks for taking the time to reply. I understand you can’t edit the sensor or the entity itself as that’s the lowest component in the chain, but I can’t add the entities to any devices - because it’s not pulled in a device. It’s imported all the entities and not devices. With each Tado device, it should be consist of about 8-10 entities (mostly sensors).
Are you sure it’s not giving you a device?
I don’t have Tado, so I’m guessing here.
If you go to settings → devices and integrations → scroll down to Tado [devices].
Isn’t there a few devices?
Each device is then a series of entities.
Device is not something that you can add on the dashboard, it’s more of a page that groups the entities.
As with all my other devices, I’ve been able to click through to the entities, rename them, change domain type, icon etc. But with Tado, none of the entities are associated with any devices - they are no devices created. Under the entities page it just shows 198 of them, but will not do anything when I click through to try and update them.
When I first installed the integration last week, it did created devices and entities, although it was mess with duplicate areas etc. When I deleted the integration and started again, HA didn’t force me to re-enter credentials or any other configure, so HA must be holding that information somewhere, even though I deleted the integration and restarted HA a couple of times Could the browser being caching some of the data, would running the integration again from a private browser make any difference? Or could their be a config file within HA that is not being deleted when I remove the integration?
I’m really trying to figure it out, but hitting the limits of my knowledge.
