Hi all, I have a Tado smart thermostate and smart radiator valve. I do not pay Tado the monthly fee to enable to Geofencing options, because I want Homey to fix this. Tado reports nicely to Homey all sorts of tag status. I have 2 flows to control my home/away heating. And have 2 users, my wife and…

That’s right, they have changed it… Old users can still use the function, but not the new users.

That is some nasty surprise… don’t think I would have bought it if this was the case to be honest. Anyway, the Homey geofencing out of the box is terrible. There are alternatives which I tried (all of them, that applied to iOS) and the only one that works 100% of the time is Owntracks with a MQTT b…

Hi Roy, thanks for your reply. I did not test if the trigger is actually doing something, but the Tag “Home/Away” does change when leaving the house or coming back. How would you recommend testing it? I can make it send a push message when coming back home for example?

If you are not paying for the tado geofencing then I guess that’s why it’s not triggering as you appear to be using the tado geofencing status in your flow. I am using almost the same flow setup and it works fine but I do have the tado geofencing option (I purchased before they changed). The Homey…

What Adrian says. You are using the Tado cards which do not work as you have no subscription. If you want to use homeys geofencing to control Temperature you need to use the Homey geo tags in the “if” trigger box, not the Tado one. Unless you have another flow with the homey geofencing changing the…

So the trigger from Tado “Home/Away status changes” does not work and could be because of a bug or the subscription. You could also let a user trigger it, and that DOES work. If Bart left home, then blabla works! Strange… Homey does not have a nice general trigger saying “if everybody is away, the…

Seems to be a good summary. I’m using the tado geofencing (plus other presence detection methods) to set the homey presence status for each homey user. Then I have a flow using the homey presence trigger for someone left and nobody home plus another flow for someone arrives to do the actual work.

Alright, I got it working properly. Maybe nobody cares, but this is what I have done :slight_smile: With the app Better Logic I have created a Boolean variable “Home/Away”. Flow 1: IF somebody comes home, THEN set boolean TRUE. Flow 2: IF somenbody left AND nobody is at home THEN set boolean FAL…

I even added some flows for Guests and if outside temp is above 18 C. And a manual button to force heating on And a manual button to force the Someone home =True/False. Buttons above in case geofencing does not work or a non house member is in the house. Or in case during the day the temperatur…

Hey guys. Think there’s something crucial wrong here: Geofencing of Tado is not by subscription. Automations are by subscription, Only. Meaning: When u leave home: you get a push msg, asking you to switch Tado off or not. This can be automated by Tado by subscription. Dunno what that circumsta…

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Why do you add the check on the phone?
Just for insight

Do Athom even care?

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