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| title | description |
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| Adding devices to Home Assistant | Steps to help you get your devices in Home Assistant. |
Home Assistant will be able to automatically discover many devices and services available on your network.
See the integrations overview page to find installation instructions for your devices and services. Most integration can be fully configured via the user interface these days; however, some older or more complex integrations may need to be configured manually using YAML.
For some of these integrations, every entity needs its own entry in the
configuration.yaml file. There are two styles for multiple entity entries:
Style 1: Collect every entity under the "parent"
sensor:
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "home/bedroom/temperature"
name: "MQTT Sensor 1"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "home/kitchen/temperature"
name: "MQTT Sensor 2"
- platform: rest
resource: "http://IP_ADDRESS/ENDPOINT"
name: "Weather"
switch:
- platform: vera
Style 2: List each entity separately
You need to append numbers or strings to differentiate the entries, as in the example below. The appended number or string must be unique.
sensor bedroom:
platform: mqtt
state_topic: "home/bedroom/temperature"
name: "MQTT Sensor 1"
sensor kitchen:
platform: mqtt
state_topic: "home/kitchen/temperature"
name: "MQTT Sensor 2"
sensor weather:
platform: rest
resource: "http://IP_ADDRESS/ENDPOINT"
name: "Weather"
switch 1:
platform: vera
switch 2:
platform: vera
Grouping entities
Once you have several entities set up, it is time to organize them into groups. Each group consists of a name and a list of entity IDs. Entity IDs can be retrieved from the web interface by using the {% my developer_states title="States page in the Developer Tools" %}.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
group:
living_room:
entities:
- light.table_lamp
- switch.ac
bedroom:
entities:
- light.bedroom
- media_player.nexus_player
For more details please check the Group page.