diff --git a/source/_components/binary_sensor.bayesian.markdown b/source/_components/binary_sensor.bayesian.markdown index ad52a8e85fd..228e8ac15bf 100644 --- a/source/_components/binary_sensor.bayesian.markdown +++ b/source/_components/binary_sensor.bayesian.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: home-assistant.png -ha_category: Binary Sensor +ha_category: Utility ha_iot_class: "Local Polling" ha_release: 0.53 --- @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ The `bayesian` binary sensor platform observes the state from multiple sensors a This allows for the detection of complex events that may not be readily observable, e.g., cooking, showering, in bed, the start of a morning routine, etc. It can also be used to gain greater confidence about events that _are_ directly observable, but for which the sensors can be unreliable, e.g., presence. +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To enable the Bayesian sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/binary_sensor.ping.markdown b/source/_components/binary_sensor.ping.markdown index b0be6271369..37121004e44 100644 --- a/source/_components/binary_sensor.ping.markdown +++ b/source/_components/binary_sensor.ping.markdown @@ -8,13 +8,15 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: home-assistant.png -ha_category: Binary Sensor +ha_category: Network ha_release: 0.43 --- The `ping` binary sensor platform allows you to using `ping` to send ICMP echo requests. This way you can check if a given host is online and determine the round trip times from your Home Assistant instance to that system. +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To use this sensor in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/binary_sensor.random.markdown b/source/_components/binary_sensor.random.markdown index ac08186a313..3fdc95eb617 100644 --- a/source/_components/binary_sensor.random.markdown +++ b/source/_components/binary_sensor.random.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: home-assistant.png -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Utility ha_iot_class: "Local Polling" ha_release: 0.57 --- diff --git a/source/_components/binary_sensor.threshold.markdown b/source/_components/binary_sensor.threshold.markdown index 21cc02b9fd6..a33b404772c 100644 --- a/source/_components/binary_sensor.threshold.markdown +++ b/source/_components/binary_sensor.threshold.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: home-assistant.png -ha_category: Binary Sensor +ha_category: Utility ha_iot_class: "Local Polling" ha_release: 0.34 --- @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ It's an alternative to the template binary sensor's `value_template:` to get the ``` {% endraw %} +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To enable the threshold sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/binary_sensor.trend.markdown b/source/_components/binary_sensor.trend.markdown index dae3d1c9ed7..7530a164e80 100644 --- a/source/_components/binary_sensor.trend.markdown +++ b/source/_components/binary_sensor.trend.markdown @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ sidebar: true comments: false sharing: true footer: true -ha_category: Binary Sensor +ha_category: Utility logo: home-assistant.png ha_release: 0.28 ha_iot_class: "Local Push" @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ ha_iot_class: "Local Push" The `trend` platform allows you to create sensors which show the trend of numeric `state` or`state_attributes` from other entities. This sensor requires at least two updates of the underlying sensor to establish a trend. Thus it can take some time to show an accurate state. It can be useful as part of automations, where you want to base an action on a trend. +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To enable Trend binary sensors in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/binary_sensor.uptimerobot.markdown b/source/_components/binary_sensor.uptimerobot.markdown index 7b37252f399..759150fe332 100644 --- a/source/_components/binary_sensor.uptimerobot.markdown +++ b/source/_components/binary_sensor.uptimerobot.markdown @@ -8,19 +8,22 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: uptimerobot.png -ha_category: Binary Sensor +ha_category: System Monitor ha_release: "0.72" ha_iot_class: "Cloud Polling" --- -The `uptimerobot` binary_sensor platform allows you get the status for all of your monitors from your account on [Uptime Robot.]( https://uptimerobot.com) +The `uptimerobot` binary sensor platform allows you get the status for all of your monitors from your account on [Uptime Robot.]( https://uptimerobot.com). -## Example for `configuration.yaml` : +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + +To enable the sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`: ```yaml +# Example configuration.yaml entry binary_sensor: - platform: uptimerobot - api_key: u432898-d2507e493b31217e6c64fd35 + api_key: YOUR_API_KEY ``` {% configuration %} diff --git a/source/_components/binary_sensor.workday.markdown b/source/_components/binary_sensor.workday.markdown index 1ba1f8bd8c7..21280a72ba4 100644 --- a/source/_components/binary_sensor.workday.markdown +++ b/source/_components/binary_sensor.workday.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: home-assistant.png -ha_category: Binary Sensor +ha_category: Utility ha_iot_class: "Local Polling" ha_release: 0.41 --- diff --git a/source/_components/cloudflare.markdown b/source/_components/cloudflare.markdown index c088bc1e8f0..b2f5ad956cd 100644 --- a/source/_components/cloudflare.markdown +++ b/source/_components/cloudflare.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: cloudflare.png -ha_category: Utility +ha_category: Network featured: false ha_release: 0.74 --- diff --git a/source/_components/cover.template.markdown b/source/_components/cover.template.markdown index 06a4c09d9c5..77748e12b6c 100644 --- a/source/_components/cover.template.markdown +++ b/source/_components/cover.template.markdown @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ ha_iot_class: "Local Push" logo: home-assistant.png --- -The `template` platform can create covers that combine components and provides -the ability to run scripts or invoke services for each of the open, close, -stop, position, and tilt commands of a cover. +The `template` platform can create covers that combine components and provides the ability to run scripts or invoke services for each of the open, close, stop, position and tilt commands of a cover. + +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} To enable Template Covers in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: diff --git a/source/_components/device_tracker.ping.markdown b/source/_components/device_tracker.ping.markdown index 1f343680127..04d2e764420 100644 --- a/source/_components/device_tracker.ping.markdown +++ b/source/_components/device_tracker.ping.markdown @@ -8,12 +8,14 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: home-assistant.png -ha_category: Presence Detection +ha_category: Network ha_release: 0.36 --- -The `ping` platform offers presence detection by using `ping` to send ICMP echo requests. This can be useful when devices are running a firewall and are blocking UDP or TCP packets but responding to ICMP requests (like Android phones). This tracker doesn't need to know the MAC address since the host can be on a different subnet. This makes this an option to detect hosts on a different subnet when `nmap` or other solutions don't work since `arp` doesn't work. +The `ping` device tracker platform offers presence detection by using `ping` to send ICMP echo requests. This can be useful when devices are running a firewall and are blocking UDP or TCP packets but responding to ICMP requests (like Android phones). This tracker doesn't need to know the MAC address since the host can be on a different subnet. This makes this an option to detect hosts on a different subnet when `nmap` or other solutions don't work since `arp` doesn't work. + +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} To use this presence detection in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: diff --git a/source/_components/duckdns.markdown b/source/_components/duckdns.markdown index bd18114a18e..96f9fc3c917 100644 --- a/source/_components/duckdns.markdown +++ b/source/_components/duckdns.markdown @@ -8,13 +8,15 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: duckdns.png -ha_category: Utility +ha_category: Network featured: false ha_release: 0.55 --- With the DuckDNS component you can keep your DuckDNS record up to date. DuckDNS is a free dynamic DNS service that allows you to point a subdomain under `duckdns.org` at your computer. +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To use the component in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/folder_watcher.markdown b/source/_components/folder_watcher.markdown index fffd1a68f8d..338f0c7fdb0 100644 --- a/source/_components/folder_watcher.markdown +++ b/source/_components/folder_watcher.markdown @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ This component adds [Watchdog](https://pythonhosted.org/watchdog/) file system m Configured folders must be added to [whitelist_external_dirs](/docs/configuration/basic/). Note that by default folder monitoring is recursive, meaning that the contents of sub-folders are also monitored. +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To enable the Folder Watcher component in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: {% raw %} diff --git a/source/_components/freedns.markdown b/source/_components/freedns.markdown index 960d1411d99..226c64dfb3d 100644 --- a/source/_components/freedns.markdown +++ b/source/_components/freedns.markdown @@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ sidebar: true comments: false sharing: true footer: true -ha_category: Utility +ha_category: Network ha_release: 0.67 --- With the `freedns` component you can keep your [FreeDNS](https://freedns.afraid.org) record up to date. -## {% linkable_title Configuration %} +## {% linkable_title Setup %} You need to determine your update URL or your access token. @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ You need to determine your update URL or your access token. 5. The access token is the part at the end of the link: `https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?YOUR_UPDATE_TOKEN` 6. Either put the token as `access_token` _or_ the whole URL into the `url` attribute. +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To use the component in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/google_domains.markdown b/source/_components/google_domains.markdown index df42475a519..0fcebeca094 100644 --- a/source/_components/google_domains.markdown +++ b/source/_components/google_domains.markdown @@ -8,12 +8,14 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: google_domains.png -ha_category: Utility +ha_category: Network ha_release: 0.57 --- With the Google Domains component you can keep your Google Domains record up to date. +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To use the component in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/namecheapdns.markdown b/source/_components/namecheapdns.markdown index 4f68adb4606..6f156306d7c 100644 --- a/source/_components/namecheapdns.markdown +++ b/source/_components/namecheapdns.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: namecheap.png -ha_category: Utility +ha_category: Network featured: false ha_release: 0.56 --- @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ With the `namecheapdns` component you can automatically update your dynamic DNS Namecheap only supports IPv4 addresses to update.
+## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To use the component in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/no_ip.markdown b/source/_components/no_ip.markdown index f070e2b4d5f..8456c6678dc 100644 --- a/source/_components/no_ip.markdown +++ b/source/_components/no_ip.markdown @@ -8,12 +8,14 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: noip.png -ha_category: Utility +ha_category: Network ha_release: 0.57 --- With the `no_ip` component you can keep your [NO-IP.com](https://www.noip.com) record up to date. + + To use the component in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.api_stream.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.api_stream.markdown index c363e885332..cdc4541c29d 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.api_stream.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.api_stream.markdown @@ -8,13 +8,15 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: home-assistant.png -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Utility ha_release: 0.33 ha_iot_class: "Local Push" --- The `api_stream` sensor platform shows how many clients are connected to the stream API +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To add the connected clients to your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.crimereports.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.crimereports.markdown index 1bb1b89d052..e80d504a51f 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.crimereports.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.crimereports.markdown @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ sidebar: true comments: false sharing: true footer: true -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Social logo: crimereports.png ha_release: 0.42 ha_iot_class: "Cloud Polling" @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ha_iot_class: "Cloud Polling" The `crimereports` sensor allows one to track reported incidents occurring in a given area. Incidents include anything reported to [Crime Reports](http://crimereports.com). Your regional emergency services may or may not report data. The sensor only counts incidents from the current day. -## Configuration +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`. Your `radius` should be of sufficient size to capture incidents in your area. @@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ Configuration options for the Crime Reports Sensor: - **exclude** (*Optional*): List of incident types to exclude. -## Notes +## {% linkable_title Notes %} -### Area +### {% linkable_title Area %} Crime Reports captures all incidents in a region defined by a square shape. Home Assistant zones are circular. Therefore, the region defined by a Home Assistant zone in a Crime Reports context is a square that is big enough to fit the zone circle. Practically, this means some incidents may be captured that are outside your zone. -### Incident Types +### {% linkable_title Incident Types %} You can explicitly include or exclude incident types. Specifying `include`s restricts the incidents to those types. Specifying `exclude`s will return all incident types except those specified. @@ -83,6 +83,6 @@ These incident types are available: - Vehicle Stop - Weapons Offense -### Events +### {% linkable_title Events %} The `crimealerts` sensor fires a `crimealerts_incident` event when a new incident is detected, including the type, description, time, location, and coordinates of the incident. diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.discogs.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.discogs.markdown index 281852abc79..ec600a21b44 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.discogs.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.discogs.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: https://www.magneticmag.com/.image/t_share/MTQ5OTE1NzU4NTczMzk3OTYw/discogs-vinyl-record-mark.png -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Multimedia ha_release: 0.61 logo: discogs.png ha_iot_class: "Cloud Polling" @@ -16,9 +16,13 @@ ha_iot_class: "Cloud Polling" The `discogs` platform allows you to see the current amount of records in your [Discogs](https://discogs.com) collection. +## {% linkable_title Setup %} + First, you'll need to get a personal access token from your Discogs account. You can generate a token from your profile's [Developer settings](https://www.discogs.com/settings/developers). +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.dnsip.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.dnsip.markdown index 3eeff8b0c1e..0850e3696d3 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.dnsip.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.dnsip.markdown @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: page -title: "DNS IP" +title: "DNS IP Sensor" description: "Instructions on how to integrate a DNS IP sensor into Home Assistant." date: 2017-02-25 11:05 sidebar: true @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: home-assistant.png -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Network ha_iot_class: "Cloud Polling" ha_release: "0.40" --- @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ The `dnsip` sensor will expose an IP address, fetched via DNS resolution, as its You may also override the nameserver that is being used by setting the `resolver` parameter to any nameserver you like. +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.duke_energy.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.duke_energy.markdown index 1d1bb410d5e..2e120441b3d 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.duke_energy.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.duke_energy.markdown @@ -8,13 +8,15 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: duke_energy.png -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Energy ha_release: "0.74" ha_iot_class: "Cloud Polling" --- The `duke_energy` sensor platform allows you get the previous days usage for all of your Duke Energy smart meters. +## {% linkable_title Setup %} + You will only have access to meters listed in your account at [Duke Energy Usage](https://www.duke-energy.com/my-account/usage-analysis). This supports both electric and gas meters. Along with previous days usage, each sensor will have attributes for the previous bills total usage and average usage. diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.ebox.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.ebox.markdown index d2ad1a9cb5c..c71643c4c81 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.ebox.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.ebox.markdown @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: page -title: "EBox" +title: "EBox Sensor" description: "Instructions on how to integrate EBox data usage within Home Assistant." date: 2017-02-15 17:17 sidebar: true @@ -8,13 +8,15 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: ebox.png -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Network ha_release: 0.39 ha_iot_class: "Cloud Polling" --- Integrate your [EBox](https://client.ebox.ca/) account information into Home Assistant. +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To use your EBox sensor in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.fail2ban.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.fail2ban.markdown index ca1467cf1b1..20f46f6f15c 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.fail2ban.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.fail2ban.markdown @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ sidebar: true comments: false sharing: true footer: true -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Network ha_iot_class: "Local Polling" logo: fail2ban.png ha_release: 0.57 @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ The `fail2ban` sensor allows for IPs banned by [fail2ban](https://www.fail2ban.o Your system must have `fail2ban` installed and correctly configured for this sensor to work. In addition, Home Assistant must be able to read the `fail2ban` log file. +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.file.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.file.markdown index 8ae7216a7d7..627e7f28ff2 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.file.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.file.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: file.png -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Utility ha_iot_class: "Local Polling" ha_release: 0.45 --- @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ ha_release: 0.45 The `file` sensor platform reads the entries from a plain-text file and shows the found value. Only the last line of the file is used. This is similar to do `$ tail -n 1 sensor.txt` on the command-line. Note that file paths must be added to [whitelist_external_dirs](/docs/configuration/basic/). +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + To enable the `file` sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`: ```yaml diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.filesize.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.filesize.markdown index 3178fa6e3cf..c52057294ee 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.filesize.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.filesize.markdown @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: page -title: "File size sensor" +title: "File size Sensor" description: "Component for monitoring the size of a file." date: 2018-02-06 14:00 sidebar: true @@ -8,13 +8,16 @@ comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: file.png -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Utility ha_iot_class: "Local Polling" ha_release: 0.64 --- -Component for displaying the size in MB of a file. Note that paths must be added to [whitelist_external_dirs](/docs/configuration/basic/). -Add to your config: +The `filesize` sensor for displaying the size in MB of a file. Note that paths must be added to [whitelist_external_dirs](/docs/configuration/basic/). + +## {% linkable_title Configuration %} + +To enable the `filesize` sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`: ```yaml sensor: diff --git a/source/_components/sensor.filter.markdown b/source/_components/sensor.filter.markdown index 5e2834eebca..a0a07337a70 100644 --- a/source/_components/sensor.filter.markdown +++ b/source/_components/sensor.filter.markdown @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ sidebar: true comments: false sharing: true footer: true -ha_category: Sensor +ha_category: Utility ha_release: 0.65 ha_iot_class: "Local Push" logo: home-assistant.png @@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ The `filter` platform enables sensors that process the states of other entities.