v4.1.4 — Hot water heat fix, tracker grouping, and bridge sensor on boiler-less setups

[hiall-fyi]

A bug-fix release. Hot water can be switched to Heat again on temperature-controlled tanks, the phone trackers are back under the Tado CE device, and the Bridge connected sensor now works on radiator-only homes with no boiler. The boiler diagnostic sensors also got a clearer name. No config changes needed.

Bug fixes

Hot water switches to Heat again on temperature-controlled tanks (#317 - @Siiya27). On hot-water zones that take a target temperature (solar or cylinder systems, not simple on/off combis), switching to Heat or pressing a boost-timer button failed every time the water was already off, with Tado rejecting the request. The overlay Tado CE sent left the temperature out, and a temperature-capable tank requires one. It now includes a target with the request (your last-known one, or the tank's maximum if there isn't a recent value), so both the operation-mode switch and the boost timer work again. On/off-only combi tanks are unaffected and still send a plain on. Thanks to @Siiya27 for the clear report and for working out that the missing temperature was the cause.

Phone trackers are grouped under the Tado CE device again (#314 - @arnoslag). v4.1.3 got the trackers reporting home / away again, but they sat loose in the entity list instead of under the Tado CE device, because the tracker type introduced in v4.1.2 doesn't create a device entry at all. They've moved back to the tracker type that does, so each phone shows under the device as it did in v4.1.1, while keeping the Home Assistant compatibility that prompted the original change. Presence and the geofencing sensor are unchanged.

Bridge connected sensor now works on setups with no boiler (#275 - @50494554524F). The sensor read the bridge's online flag from the boiler-wiring response, which comes back empty when nothing is wired to the bridge (a radiator-only home). On those setups it showed Unknown and never updated. It now falls back to reading the bridge's own connection status from the home device list, so the on / off state works whether or not a boiler is wired. Setups with a boiler or heat pump were already correct and are unaffected. Thanks to @50494554524F for pulling the raw API responses that pinned it down.

Improvements

Boiler diagnostic sensors renamed from "Bridge …" to "Boiler …" (#275 - @50494554524F). The sensors fed by the bridge's boiler-wiring data (wiring state, flow and output temperature, the wired-device details) were all prefixed "Bridge", which read as if they were about the bridge itself rather than the boiler. They now read "Boiler Wiring State", "Boiler Flow Temperature", and so on. Display names only, so automations and dashboards keep working; the entity IDs are unchanged.

How to Update

From v4.1.3: HACS → Tado CE → ⋮ → Redownload → select v4.1.4 → Restart HA.

Fresh install: See Quick Start in the README.

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Full changelog: v4.1.3...v4.1.4

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