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The thingspeak components makes Home Assistant communicate with the ThingSpeak API. For now, it records exactly one entity at once, which is great for testing purposes. For long-time storage you should rely on the InfluxDB component.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
thingspeak:

You will have to create a new channel on ThingSpeak and grab your API key from your account page.

Configuration variables:

  • api_key: Yout ThingSpeak API key
  • id: The ID of your desired ThingSpeak channel
  • whitelist: The name of the entity whose states should be sent to the channel.

{% linkable_title Examples %}

{% linkable_title Full configuration %}

thingspeak:
  api_key: MY_API_KEY
  id: 1337
  whitelist: sensor.yr_temperature