node-tado-client

Documentation

A Tado API client for Node

Based on the work of SCPhillips on his blog

Please note: This is based on reverse engineering the Tado Web App's API and hence may be unstable

DEPRECATION notice: The Zone Overlay API calls are being deprecated, see below for further information

Usage

// Import the Tado client
const { Tado } = require("node-tado-client"); // or TadoX

// Create a new Tado instance
var tado = new Tado();

// Register a callback function for token changes
tado.setTokenCallback(console.log);

// Authenticate with the Tado Web API
// The refreshToken is optional, if you have a previous session still active
const [verify, futureToken] = await tado.authenticate("refreshToken");
if (verify) {
    console.log("------------------------------------------------");
    console.log("Device authentication required.");
    console.log("Please visit the following website in a browser.");
    console.log("");
    console.log(`  ${verify.verification_uri_complete}`);
    console.log("");
    console.log(
        `Checks will occur every ${verify.interval}s up to a maximum of ${verify.expires_in}s`,
    );
    console.log("------------------------------------------------");
}
await futureToken;

// Get the User's information
const me = await tado.getMe();
console.log(me);
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This call will return something similar to the following Javascript object.

{
    "name": "John Doe",
    "email": "john_doe@gmail.com",
    "username": "john_doe",
    "id": "523acf000089",
    "homes": [
        {
            "id": 1907,
            "name": "Home"
        }
    ],
    "locale": "en",
    "mobileDevices": [
        {
            "name": "John's Phone",
            "id": 644583,
            "settings": {
                "geoTrackingEnabled": true
            },
            "location": {
                "stale": false,
                "atHome": true,
                "bearingFromHome": {
                    "degrees": 1.0228772862994653,
                    "radians": 6.03530586900973365
                },
                "relativeDistanceFromHomeFence": 10
            },
            "deviceMetadata": {
                "platform": "Android",
                "osVersion": "6.0.0",
                "model": "Samsung Galaxy",
                "locale": "en"
            }
        }
    ]
}
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The following API calls are available

/*********************/
/* Authentication */
/*********************/
tado.authenticate(refreshToken?, interval?);
tado.setTokenCallback(cb);

/*********************/
/* Low-level methods */
/*********************/
tado.apiCall(url, method = 'get', data = {});

/****************************************/
/* High-level methods (Tado and Tado-X) */
/****************************************/
tado.getMe();
tado.getHome(home_id);
tado.getWeather(home_id);
tado.getInstallations(home_id);
tado.getUsers(home_id);
tado.getState(home_id);
tado.getMobileDevices(home_id);
tado.getMobileDevice(home_id, device_id);
tado.getMobileDeviceSettings(home_id, device_id);
tado.isAnyoneAtHome(home_id);
tado.setPresence(home_id, presence);
tado.updatePresence(home_id);
tado.getAirComfort(home_id);
tado.getEnergyIQ(home_id);
tado.getEnergyIQTariff(home_id);
tado.addEnergyIQTariff(home_id, unit, startDate, endDate, tariffInCents);
tado.updateEnergyIQTariff(home_id, tariff_id, unit, startDate, endDate, tariffInCents);
tado.getEnergyIQMeterReadings(home_id);
tado.addEnergyIQMeterReading(home_id, date, reading);
tado.deleteEnergyIQMeterReading(home_id, reading_id);
tado.getEnergySavingsReport(home_id, year, month, countryCode); // countryCode should match home country, it can be retrieved from getHome(home_id).address.country

/**********************************/
/* High-level methods (Tado only) */
/**********************************/
tado.getZones(home_id);
tado.getZoneState(home_id, zone_id);
tado.getZoneCapabilities(home_id, zone_id);
tado.getZoneOverlay(home_id, zone_id);
tado.getZoneDayReport(home_id, zone_id, reportDate)
tado.getTimeTables(home_id, zone_id);
tado.getAwayConfiguration(home_id, zone_id);
tado.getTimeTable(home_id, zone_id, timetable_id);
tado.setWindowDetection(home_id, zone_id, enabled, timeout);
tado.clearZoneOverlays(home_id, [zone_id, ...]);
tado.setZoneOverlays(home_id, [overlays, ...], termination);
tado.getZoneDefaultOverlay(home_id, zone_id);
tado.setZoneDefaultOverlay(home_id, zone_id, overlay);
tado.getDevices(home_id);
tado.getDeviceTemperatureOffset(device_id);
tado.setDeviceTemperatureOffset(device_id, temperatureOffset);
tado.identifyDevice(device_id);

/***********************************/
/* High-level methods (TadoX only) */
/***********************************/
tado.getRoomsAndDevice(home_id);
tado.getRooms(home_id);
tado.getRoomState(home_id, room_id);
tado.resumeSchedule(home_id, room_id);
tado.manualControl(home_id, room_id, power, temperature termination);

/**********************************/
/* Deprecated methods (Tado only) */
/**********************************/
tado.clearZoneOverlay(home_id, zone_id);
tado.setZoneOverlay(home_id, zone_id, power, temperature, termination);
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Authentication Semantics

The new device flow could be slightly frustrating for headless apps so I've tried to cover all use cases and make the use as ergonomic as possible. The authenticate method below must be called before anything else

async authenticate(
    refreshToken?: string,
    timeout?: number,
  ): Promise<[DeviceVerification | undefined, Promise<Token>]> {
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• If a refresh token is provided
  • Try to use it, otherwise revert to device auth flow
  • If it works then return [undefined, Promise] - where the Promise will immediately resolve
• No refresh token provided
  • Start a device auth flow
  • Device auth flow will return the DeviceVerification object that has the relevant URL, and a Promise that will resolve on successful authentication. It uses a timeout of Math.min(timeout, tado.expires_in)

All auth errors should be identifiable now;

• NotAuthenticated - if the authenticate method call wasn't made yet
• InvalidRefreshToken - either the supplied refresh token has expired, was incorrectly typed, or you haven't made an API call in the last 30 days (see note 1 below)
• AuthTimeout - you didn't hit the device auth URL quick enough

There's also now an example in examples/auth.ts because it may be a little fiddly.

Note 1. I haven't implemented any background polling to refresh the refresh token - you'll need to call the API once every 30 days (That's how long refresh tokens are currently useable)

Setting Zone Overlays

The setZoneOverlay and clearZoneOverlay methods have been deprecated in favour of setZoneOverlays and clearZoneOverlays respectively.

The setZoneOverlays method takes an array of overlays in the form of

{
    zone_id: 123,           # Required
    power: "ON",            # HEATING and AC
    temperature: {          # HEATING and AC
        celsius: 24,
        fahrenheit: 75.2
    },
    mode: "HEAT",           # AC only
    fanLevel: "LEVEL1",     # AC only
    verticalSwing: "OFF",   # AC only
    horizontalSwing: "OFF", # AC only
    light: "OFF",           # AC only
}
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It is not required to use upper case in the values, the library will convert the strings for you. It is also not required to supply both celsius and fahrenheit, the Tado API is able to convert for you.

The termination argument should be one of the following:

• A positive integer - this will be interpreted as the number of seconds to set the overlay for
• "auto" - this will put the overlay into "TADO_MODE"
  • Note: This uses the default termination type set on the zone
• "next_time_block" - overlay until the next scheduled event
• Anything else - the overlay will exist indefinitely and will need manually clearing

Setting Geo Presence

The setPresence method call takes the following arguments

• presence - home, away or auto

Documentation of deprecated methods

The setZoneOverlay method call takes the following arguments

Note: It will automatically determine the type of system that it is affecting

• power - on or off (case insensitive) [default: off]
• temperature - Integer temperature in Celsius, if affecting a HEATING system
• termination - Integer , auto, next_time_block, or manual (case insensitive, integer denotes a timer in seconds) [default: manual]