Hardware Button for Home/Away Mode

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Rolsc
Rolsc ✭
in General Questions & Topics

Hello fellow tado users,

We are using tado in a shared space and wanted to have a physical button to toggle home/away, because it wasn't feasible to always invite everyone into the app.

So here's our solution:

1) Get an Apple Homepod Mini (or Apple TV 4th gen)

2) Install Homebridge (https://homebridge.io/) on a device that is always on (could be a raspberry pi)

3) Install https://github.com/SeydX/homebridge-tado-platform#readme on the homebridge.

4) In the tado platform settings you can expose the presence locks.

5) Connect homebridge and the child bridge to Apple Homekit

5) Connect any smartbutton (we used philips hue smart buttons) to the Presence switches.


You're welcome :)

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