Add meter reading

The Add meter reading action sends a meter reading to Tado Energy IQ. With Energy IQ, you can track your energy consumption and keep an eye on your heating costs.

A common use is an automation that reads a gas or electricity meter sensor and submits the value to Tado on a daily schedule.

Using this action from the user interface

If you prefer building automations and scripts visually, Home Assistant walks you through this action step by step. You pick what to target, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To add a meter reading from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. From the search box, search for and select Tado: Add meter reading.
6. Select the Config entry and enter the Reading.
7. Select Save.

This action does not support targets. In the UI, you are not prompted to choose an area, device, entity, or label.

Options in the UI

Using this action in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required.

In YAML, refer to this action as tado.add_meter_reading. A basic example looks like this:

action: tado.add_meter_reading
data:
  config_entry: ef2e84b3dfc0aee85ed44ac8e8038ccf
  reading: 1234

To find your config entry ID, set this action up in the UI first, then switch to YAML mode to read the generated value.

Options in YAML

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Open Developer tools > Actions, search for this action, fill in the fields, and select Perform action. You see what happens on your actual entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more] without writing a line of YAML.

More examples

Real scenarios where this action shows up in automations and scripts. Copy any example and adapt it to your setup.

Automation: submit a daily meter reading

Send a gas meter reading to Tado Energy IQ every night.

alias: "Submit daily gas reading to Tado"
triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at: "00:00:00"
actions:
  - action: tado.add_meter_reading
    data:
      config_entry: ef2e84b3dfc0aee85ed44ac8e8038ccf
      reading: "{{ states('sensor.gas_consumption') | int }}"

Still stuck?

The Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the action you’re calling and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.

Related actions

These actions work well alongside this one:

• Set climate timer: Turns on a Tado climate entity for a set time.

• Set water heater timer: Turns on a Tado water heater for a set time.

• Set climate temperature offset: Sets the temperature offset of Tado climate entities.