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The currencylayer sensor will show you the current exchange rate from Currencylayer that provides real-time exchange rates for 170 currencies. The free account is limited to only USD as a base currency, allows 1000 requests per month, and updates every hour.

Obtain your API key here

To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: currencylayer
    api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
    base: USD
    quote:
      - EUR
      - INR

{% configuration %} api_key: description: "The API Key from Currencylayer." required: true type: string quote: description: The symbol(s) of the quote or target currencies. required: false type: string, list default: Exchange rate base: description: The symbol of the base currency. required: false type: string default: USD {% endconfiguration %}