I expected such doubts. Looks like you are young man and don’t have a wife. This is the best idea how to check wife presence at kitchen ![]()
For the record: 2025.1 introduced a Cookidoo integration:
With this kind of analyses, we could forget all about home automation, since even a light bulb being on is visible just by looking at the ceiling. However, we can’t count the number of Home Assistant integrations that allow us to control things remotely and automate tasks based on their status. The value of automation and integration lies in the ability to manage devices centrally and make them smarter, even for simple tasks. It’s not just about visibility, but about comfort and personalizing the way we interact with devices.
A big thank you to the integrators for adding the Cookidoo integration for the 2025.1 release – it’s a great addition!
There is a basic and simple integration important to me: when your Thermomix ends the cooking process, you may be out of your kitchen, but there is no mean to know that it has ended if you are far away, or kitchen door is closed and you can’t listen the robot sound. So far, this function is not present at Cookidoo app. It is very disgusting taking into account that it is a very expensive machine with a “modern app” (Cookidoo is not free, we have to pay an expensive subscription for almost no improvements!), but you need to take a watch/smartphone and to make a countdown to know when the cooking is over. Vorwerk maybe should provide this integration at least for Home Assistant users if he doesn’t invest in app basic functionalities in Cookidoo. So, what I think is interesting is to integrate Thermomix with HA rather than cookidoo (or by means of Cookidoo if they don’t want to open TM6 secrets to external developers!).
I also wish that but I do not think that this is possible. You might have more luck with a smart power plug and a presence sensor. Like that, you could get a notification when the energy consumption dropped and you are out of the kitchen.
This is an older post but I was missing 1 important reason to integrate it:
because you can ![]()
Are there any news about this project?
I just put a smart plug with energy monitoring on the thermomix. If constumption rises above x, then drops below y, I assume that it is done cooking.
However, while this is great in theory, at least an ETA sensor would be nice. I don’t understand why Thermomix / Vorwerk won’t provide an API for this. They could even “lock” it to assure people don’t overuse it (if device is not cooking > max 6 api requests per hour, then error; if device IS cooking, allow 1 request per minute or so).
Is anybody aware whether somebody started a petition or contacted Vorwerk about something like this?
A very expensive >1.000 €/$ cooking robot and it is unable to notify that it has finished cooking, and you must use a countdown clock if you are outside of the kitchen? ![]()
Well it does notify you by making some noises ![]()
Yes, it’s sad, but unfortunately the reality. The possible user group is probably too small. Or Vorwerk is working on something themselves…
They indeed worked on something. TM7 notifies you on mobile not only that it’s finished cooking, but also for each step. To me, that seems like something that can be integrated into HA - even if it’s as hacky as setting up some old phone with Cookidoo and Tasker to read notifications and send requests to HA based on it… Would still like to have official API to get the meal plan/calendar to be able to show it on kitchen tablet, but at least there is something.
Did tou manage to extract information from notifications on Android?
But, is there some notification for TM6? Just to know that TM6 has finished its current cooking step. I’m not speaking about something much more complex that requires security checks like to start cooking remotely; it’s simply to receive a notification in order to know that I have to go back to our kitchen in order to do something with TM6. iOS companion app, Finally: Merry Xmas and 2026 year! ![]()
Thanks for the idea, but we have iOS app at home.