Google home integration
I was wondering if tado thermostats can be controlled directly from Google home. I know one can control it with the voice assistant, but I'm asking specifically if you can see temperature information directly in the Google home hubs.
Thanks
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Hi, yes you can. Under Home control, you get a snapshot of each room (heating or off status, current and temp set). You can change settings here per room / device.
You can also select Climate with the Google Home Control menu on left to go to access the same sections.1
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hi, thanks for the information! It's a bit hard to know if you are starting with home automation :)
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I've not found a way to gain an "at a glance" dashboard view of all the data at once. I can see the devices listed, but you need to click into each one individually to see data values.
Certainly voice control works and I assume you could set up routines too, but personally I just use the Tado app for my dashboard view and to make adjustments. Rarely I might use a voice command if I think to, but it's not baked into my muscle memory to do that.
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hi @eezytiger thanks a lot for the screenshots. That's exactly what i was looking for. From what i see you can even control the thermostats from google home, which is great.
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@eezytiger @marioferreira if you've got android 12 then when you pull down the notification bar there is a "Device Controls" menu item. Clicking that you can see all your devices on one screen. It also shows the current status of each room thermostat and what the temperature in each room is.0
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I have the Tado thermostat working with Google Home, but I would like to ask Google: "What is the temperature in the living room?".
But I'll get the answer: "It looks like this thermostat is not configured right now, you can do this in Setting" or something like that, I'm translating.
All is configured correctly in GH, when I give the command "Set temperature in the Livingroom on 20 degrees" Tado listens, and I see thermostat adjusting the configured temperature. But I can't ask for the temperature.
The information is available, it is visible in GH, like the print screens above here in this topic, so why can't I ask for it?
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Well, one month passed without any answer. Busy community here...
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GH will respond to a voice request for current temperature. It also states the set temperature (usually), but this seems to vary on a whim.
I did make a voice recording to demonstrate, but I can't attach the file type here. If anyone is sufficiently interested I'll break out the laptop and zip it. No feature to do that on Android, without an app.
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@RonH123 I just asked Google home for the temperature in my lounge and got this answer:
"Heating is set to 18 with a current temperature of 18.5 degrees".
So it seems to be working for me.
One thing I will say though is I think Google very much treats its assistant as an experiment and features seem to come and go at random. Commands seem to fairly regularly do different things and it gets quite easily confused - this applies to its interaction with any service.
For example, I have Android Auto in my car, and I once asked it to play something on Spotify in my car, and nothing happened. After a few tries I gave up. I then got home and got told by my kids that the sound bar in the lounge kept randomly blasting out music! Clearly on that day the assistant had decided on its own where I wanted to play the music even though I was 20 miles away...
As a consequence I don't generally use Google Home to operate my heating because I don't trust what it might decide to do on a given day.0 -
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I don't use voice to control the heating. Alexa made a right muck up of it. We have a smart light in the hall, called Hall. We also have a Tado SWT in the hall.
In the past we have commanded Alexa "Hall on", which turned on the hall light. Once Tado was added the same command did not operate the Light, but instead set the Hall heating to 21C. We never have it that high, ever. Even less so in summer!
I removed Tado from Alexa completely in order to avoid future f-ups.
GH, on the other hand, does understand the difference, but we still don't bother to use voice for heating.
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Adjusting or receiving a temperature in any of my 4 rooms using voice commands working without an issue on my Google Nest hub.0
