HomeKit integration was a main driver for me to choose tado. I don't like being dependent on cloud services for things that are practically local to my house, so I have configured HomeAssistant to use it through the HomeKit integration.
However, after installing it, I found out that there is an important feature that is not supported through HomeKit: the hot water temperature. I can set a temperature through the cloud (including on a schedule, or using the tado home/away setting, but both of those are cloud-only as well). If the tado is not connected to the cloud, it will keep the hot water temperature at whatever it was last set to when there was a cloud connection.
This is not an acceptable limitation to me, and it shouldn't be that hard to expose this setting through the HomeKit integration.
Have you looked at the Homebridge integration? I can control hot water and it exposes lots of other sensors.
@Jasper123 Have you checked with Apple if this feature is supported in the first place? I'm not sure if you are able to control your hot water with Apple HomeKit.
@Jasper123 Totally get your a HA fan, why not run a docker container with Homebridge for a while and see if that works for you it is also local and advertises to HomeKit. Regardless of your desires Tado will always be a cloud based solution. The limitations when no internet is available (local only) will always be: https://support.tado.com/en/articles/3477781-what-happens-when-the-internet-connection-is-temporarily-lost-can-i-still-control-my-heating-or-air-conditioning-using-tado. With my solution I get hot water control via HomeKit via the https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-tado-platform but I never (touch wood) have had internet outage and although cloud based it is quick to respond.
@rafm5 I can see and control my Hot water via Siri and HomeKit, but understand @Jasper123 wants local control. If this is your ultimate use case and Home Assistant, you might want to search for possibly Opentherm Controller or alternatives https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/kpjt0f/smart_heating_home_assistant_and_local_control/
As far as I’m aware, there are no local control options for Tado via HomeKit. I know this is directly opposite to HomeKit certification having a local options. But, as Boris said, them’s the breaks.
Updated to add: Others seem to have managed it - https://community.tado.com/en-gb/discussion/9803/homeassistant-tado-local-control
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/xv6jbb/who_went_from_tado_cloud_to_tado_local_via/
@rafm5 HomeKit supports hot water control. Tado didn't implement changing the hot water temperature through HomeKit. The problem is tado, not apple.
@Crash_Evans There is no point in me using Homebridge, as I do not actually use any Apple products. There is a tado integration for HA, that basically does the same as why you are suggesting HomeBridge, but it has a problem: if you turn off the internet connection, it stops working. I suspect the same is true for HomeBridge. But perhaps you could try this out for me: log in to your router and turn off the internet connection (but not the network), and see if HomeBridge is still able to control your tado.
I bought the tado with the intention of using tado's HomeKit support to get local control (through the "HomeKit Controller integration" for HA). This worked, but it is missing a feature that tado just didn't bother to implement. Hence, my request for them to do the sensible thing and just implement that feature.
@Jasper123 What did you end up doing? I'm in a similar boat where I want to control the hot water from home assistant via the homekit integration, but the control doesn't appear anywhere that I can see.
