as you may know, starting from January 1st, 2026, Tado will heavily limit its API usage. This will result in a loss of data and unreliable automations on a daily basis.
I live in Europe in an apartment, so I don’t have a central thermostat, only one smart thermostatic valve per room.
I run Home Assistant on a Synology NAS, and all my smart devices are currently connected via integrations only (no USB Zigbee dongle or Matter controller attached to the NAS).
Given Tado’s new policy for 2026, I’m considering replacing all my 5 Tado smart valves with a solution that I can fully and locally control from Home Assistant.
Do you have any recommendations for smart TRVs that work well with HA in this kind of setup?
Would I need to add a Zigbee USB dongle (or another Zigbee coordinator) to properly manage them?
shelly used to have nice WIFI trv, maybe try to find those from leftover stock? Next generation is BLU which comes with a usb gateway.
Zigbee ones are all over the place to be found, you just can extend on you nas with a zbt1 or whatever.
I do the same thing with ecobee. I controlled my ecobee via cloud service on my last HA platform, but when I set my ecobee up on HA, ecobee had stopped handing out the dev credentials necessary for it to work.
However, to your point, it is supported directly on HA’s HomeKit hub and is completely local control. I had to snout around here a little to find some functions like fan control which wasn’t exposed on the surface of the HomeKit integration, but eventually got it all working.
I am also looking for alternatives to Tado’s WIRED thermostat, tado° Smart Thermostat, I don’t want to have to install relays on my boiler if I can avoid it. Any suggestions?
I’ve read all your comments and carefully evaluated all the options you suggested (with some help from Google as well ). After quite a bit of research, I’ve decided to go with a Zigbee coordinator with Ethernet connectivity, rather than a USB dongle, mainly due to the USB limitations when running Home Assistant on a Synology NAS.
I’m still deciding which Zigbee thermostatic valves to buy, but I’m currently leaning towards the Sonoff ones. They’re very affordable (around 30–40 € per valve) and fully supported by Zigbee2MQTT, which is a big plus for me.
From what I’ve seen, they also support all the key features you’d expect, such as child lock and open window detection. For these reasons, I’m fairly confident they should work well in my setup.
Any additional feedback or recommendations are more than welcome!!!
I’ve been thru a bunch of TRVs mostly z-wave connected directly to everything from Homeseer to Homey and now HA. I’m in the process of moving away from older z-wave Danfoss and Popp TRVs and a mistake called Netatmo. The Danfoss TRVs were among the first and I’ve had some of them more than 10 years. Now I’ve had some new Danfoss Ally Zigbee TRVs for a year and they work really great with HA. They are fast, quiet and have a good solid feel. The Netatmo TRVs are noisy need an internet connection and 2 have simply failed.
For obvious reasons I removed the Tado valves and replaced them with Sonoff TRVZB. They have been working since the first winter and I am very satisfied.
The schedule controls my day and night temperature according to an external sensor. The battery is still 100%.
). After quite a bit of research, I’ve decided to go with a Zigbee coordinator with Ethernet connectivity, rather than a USB dongle, mainly due to the USB limitations when running Home Assistant on a Synology NAS.