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Hot water in Tado app, but not Apple Home app?

PhloopH
PhloopH ✭
in General Questions & Topics

Hi all,

Installed my Tado X this weekend for heating (with Tado X thermostat) + hot water (just original fixed temp stat on the hot water tank). It's all showing up in the Tado app. Tado app has correct schedule for heating on/off, heating temp, and hot water on/off schedule showing.

The Tado X thermostat also shows up in the Apple Home app fine, with central heating on/off and heating temp. But what about hot water? Any way to get that in Apple Home? Seems a bit annoying if I can control everything in my house from the Apple app, except my hot water. Am I missing something?

Best Answer

  • Emcee
    Emcee Admin
    Answer ✓

    Hello @PhloopH

    Unfortunately, HomeKit does not support Hot Water Control at the moment.
    Hot water can only be controlled by the tado° App

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  • PhloopH
    PhloopH ✭
    Bump.

    Still haven’t worked this out…
  • PhloopH
    PhloopH ✭

    So that's an Apple issue, not Tado one? :(

  • PhloopH
    PhloopH ✭

    I think I saw I can do that through homebridge though, yes? (I haven't tried homebridge but have a raspberry pi floating about somewhere I might play with)

  • AndyP27
    AndyP27 ✭

    Hi Tado, when's the release of Hot water to Home Kit expected?

    Also, related note - I had the V3 Tado working with Alex Skill (which supported hot water once connected), since connecting Tado X up and the devices to Alexa over thread/matter - much like Apple Home Kit, the obvious thing missing… hot water?

    Can you advise on an update to that or if I'm missing something, how can we get hot water into Amazon Alexa like the V3 Tado? Thanks

  • PhloopH
    PhloopH ✭
    edited January 6

    Maybe this is Matter related. So Matter v1.4 came out November and now includes "water heaters". So maybe once both Tado and Apple both support it as a Matter water heater, it'll be coming with no workarounds?

    (I don't know how much the Tado X is specifically Homekit compatible with Apple-specific control, or how much it's just Matter compatible when being used in Apple Home)

  • AndyP27
    AndyP27 ✭

    Hi @Emcee - Could you please advise further on this one or tag in someone from the Tado tech/dev team that could comment on @PhloopH update above re Matter v1.4 and hot water and Tado's plan/dev map for this?

    Is the Hot Water likely to be an element that is possible to expose via Matter anyway? Considering the Wireless receiver doesn't have a Matter QR code to join it to Home Kit or Home Assistant (etc.).

    Thanks in advance.

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