Does anyone have a Tado thermostat? Did you manage to control it from the Zipabox?

Seems like there's nothing like posting a question to make you figure out the answer on your own.

If anyone wants to know, I've figured it out :-)

Dear David,

we would appreciate if you take time and write how you did that for all future users with similar problem.

Hi,

Sure. So far the only thing I've tried to do is switch between manual and automatic modes, and alter the set temperature. Essentially what I want is to override the normal schedule when I'm at home on a day off (and want heating) or I'm away on holiday (and don't need heating).

I trawled a few sites, but most of information I got from this page:

http://c-mobberley.com/wordpress/2014/09/28/interacting-with-the-hidden-tado-thermostat-api/

The first thing I discovered was that, if you don't first switch the thermostat to manual mode, it will ignore all attempts to set the temperature. That was why my first attempts kept failing. To switch to manual mode send an HTTP POST with this address:

https://my.tado.com/mobile/1.8/updateThermostatSettings?username=[yourusername]&password=[yourpassword]&setMode=MANUAL

Then alter the set temperature with this:

https://my.tado.com/mobile/1.8/updateThermostatSettings?username=[yourusername]&password=[yourpassword]&manualTemp=20

To switch back to the automatic schedule, POST this:

https://my.tado.com/mobile/1.8/updateThermostatSettings?username=[yourusername]&password=[yourpassword]&setMode=AUTO

Then I just set up a rule which runs every hour to check whether the Tado needs to be switched to a special configuration, or put back on automatic. So, for example, if you have a day off during the week, you might want to sleep in and therefore leave the temperature lower for a few hours (but not as low as when you leave the house to go to work).

Maybe you can combine the switching of the mode and the setting of the temperature in one URL; I haven't tried.

Here is my main rule to set the Tado's configuration. It invokes one of four little rules which do the HTTP POST commands. I made them into subroutines because I thought I would be invoking them from different rules, but as it turns out I don't need to, so I could just as easily have put the HTTP requests directly into the main rule.

David big thanks for your detailed explanation. I am sure people will appreciate that.

I've discovered that it's more advisable to put the 2 commands on one line:

https://my.tado.com/mobile/1.8/updateThermostatSettings?username=[yourusername]&password=[yourpassword]&setMode=MANUAL&manualTemp=20

Because apparently if you don't do that, the Tado sometimes "slips" into a different temperature (when you change to manual maybe it sets its own temperature, and then somehow fails to get the memo when you send the second command).

thanks David for you work. How do you find the Tado thermostat, any good? Have you used any other to compare it to?

I really like it. I also have 2 Nests that I use as slaves in the bedrooms (i.e. when the Tado is off, they are off). The big benefit of the Tado is that it's modulating, and so it works with modulating boilers to adjust the power levels as needed. The Nest is just on/off. I also find the control options and reporting of the Tado better than the Nest.

David, thanks for your work! I just ordered the Tado, now I know that I can intergrate with Zipato!

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I am very close to ditching my Nest in favour of the Tado. Nest are refusing to release the additonal temp sensors in Europe and there are now much better options available

Is Tado still working well with Zipato?

As Tado has no motion control i'd like to use my alarm motion detectors to switch on the heating as needed