Talk:User testing for mandatory paid subscription into Tado Smart Thermostat app

They have a wikipedia page

I am not really good writing in english, but someone, please comment something on their wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tado%C2%B0

Local integration (HomeKit)

I'm using Tado V3+, and I've fully integrated it locally using HomeKit—no cloud needed—, which should also work with Tado X, at least with something like a HomePod Mini, because the HomePods (only the newer ones?) support Matter/Thread. It might be quite hard, maybe impossible, to reconstruct all of Tado's proprietary functionality successfully with Apple's stock Home app, because Apple are hiding a lot of great automation routines from the user, so all my automations are done using the third-party app Controller for HomeKit by acasa (99 EUR for a lifetime license), which runs on an old iPad that functions as the central HomeKit hub. With presence functionality (home/away based on WiFi data), I can toggle away mode; I can set additional automations not even covered by Tado like vacation mode, when I arrive at a specified second location; with window sensors like the Aqara P2 (Matter/Thread), I can easily toggle heating in my home, and I can even do more than Tado, e.g. create heating zones for connected heaters, independent of other zones.

So, while I don't know anything about HomeAssistant—though I've heard only good things, and am myself only running an instance of HOOBS Homebridge on a Raspberry Pi for very special "smart" devices—, I can say with certainty that Tado products, at least V3+, can easily be integrated locally into Apple HomeKit, and with the right iPadOS software you can even go beyond what Tado is offering its subscribers.

Should that be part of the article?

19:48, 12 March 2025 (UTC)