Home Assistant Sensor

Announced to home assistant as mqtt sensor.

Home assistant sensor.

They are able to display information which are provides by home assistant directly are gathered from web services and of course physical devices. If messages in this state topic are published with retain flag the sensor will receive an instant update with last known value. The template sensors are not limited to use attributes from other entities but can also work with home assistant s template extensions. There was an open pull request to make this interval configurable but it was declined and closed by ha s founder balloob.

This mqtt sensor platform uses the mqtt message payload as the sensor value. Otherwise the initial state will be undefined. I sort of get. For each sensor present entities will be created in numbers equal to the items present below him.

The way these sensors are displayed in the frontend can be modified in the customize section. Home assistant currently supports a wide range of sensors. When discovery is enabled tasmota will send all the sensors information to home assistant. This allows you to change your customize section and see your changes.

Home assistant offers a service to reload the core configuration while home assistant is running. The following device classes. An am2301 sensor will generate one entity for temperature one for humidity and one for dew point. Initial state boolean optional default.

To use your mqtt sensor in your installation add the following to your configuration yaml file. This template contains no entities that will trigger an update so we add in a reference to the sensor date sensor from the time date which will update once a day.