home-assistant.io/source/_integrations/demo.markdown

title	description	ha_category	ha_release	ha_quality_scale	ha_codeowners	ha_domain	ha_iot_class	ha_platforms	ha_integration_type
Demo	Instructions on how to use the Platform demos with Home Assistant.	Other Update	0.7	internal	@home-assistant/core	demo	Calculated	air_quality alarm_control_panel binary_sensor button calendar camera climate cover device_tracker fan geo_location humidifier light lock media_player notify number remote select sensor siren stt switch text tts update vacuum water_heater weather date time	integration

The demo platform allows you to use integrations which are providing a demo of their implementation. The demo entities are dummies but show you how the actual platform looks like. This way you can run own demonstration instance like the online Home Assistant demo but combined with your own real/functional platforms.

Available demo platforms:

• Air Quality (air_quality)
• Alarm control panel (alarm_control_panel)
• Binary sensor (binary_sensor)
• Button (button)
• Calendar (calendar)
• Camera (camera)
• Climate (climate)
• Cover (cover)
• Device Tracker (device_tracker)
• Fan (fan)
• Geolocation (geo_location)
• Humidifier (humidifier)
• Image Processing (image_processing)
• Light (light)
• Lock (lock)
• Mailbox (mailbox)
• Media Player (media_player)
• Notification (notify)
• Number (number)
• Remote (remote)
• Select (select)
• Sensor (sensor)
• Siren (siren)
• Switch (switch)
• Text (text)
• Text-to-speech (tts)
• Update (update)
• Vacuum (vacuum)
• Water Heater (water_heater)
• Weather (weather)

To integrate a demo platform in Home Assistant, add the following section to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry

# To load all:
demo:

# To load for a specific integration:
light:
  - platform: demo

{% configuration %} "[component]": description: The name of the integration as stated in the listing above the configuration example. required: true type: string {% endconfiguration %}