Home Assistant Sensor

The template sensors are not limited to use attributes from other entities but can also work with home assistant s template extensions.

Home assistant sensor. An am2301 sensor will generate one entity for temperature one for humidity and one for dew point. For each sensor present entities will be created in numbers equal to the items present below him. If messages in this state topic are published with retain flag the sensor will receive an instant update with last known value. When discovery is enabled tasmota will send all the sensors information to home assistant.

None sets the initial state for automations on or off. Announced to home assistant as mqtt sensor. 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. To use your mqtt sensor in your installation add the following to your configuration yaml file.

The way these sensors are displayed in the frontend can be modified in the customize section. Currently home assistant only polls for hue motion sensor data every 5 seconds which makes motion events slow and unusable for automatic lights and other automations. Home assistant offers a service to reload the core configuration while home assistant is running. Sensors with missing unit of measurement are showing as discrete values.

This mqtt sensor platform uses the mqtt message payload as the sensor value. This allows you to change your customize section and see your changes. Initial state boolean optional default. The following device classes.

There was an open pull request to make this interval configurable but it was declined and closed by ha s founder balloob. Otherwise the initial state will be undefined.