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| page | Serial Sensor | Instructions how to integrate data from serial connected sensors into Home Assistant. | 2017-10-13 07:00 | true | false | true | true | home-assistant.png | Sensor | 0.56 | Local Polling |
The serial sensor platform is using the data provided by a device connected to the serial port of the system where Home Assistant is running. With ser2net and socat would it also work for sensors connected to a remote system.
To check what kind of data is arriving at your serial port, use a command-line tool like minicom or picocom on Linux, on a macOS you can use screen or on Windows putty.
$ sudo minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0
To setup a serial sensor to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
- platform: serial
port: /dev/ttyACM0
{% configuration %} port: description: Local serial port where the sensor is connected and access is granted. required: true type: string name: description: Friendly name to use for the frontend. Default to "Serial sensor". required: false type: string {% endconfiguration %}
{% linkable_title value_template for Template sensor %}
{% linkable_title TMP36 %}
{% raw %}
"{{ (((states('sensor.serial_sensor') | float * 5 / 1024 ) - 0.5) * 100) | round(1) }}"
{% endraw %}