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

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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 date datetime device_tracker event fan geo_location humidifier light lock media_player notify number remote select sensor siren stt switch text time tts update vacuum valve water_heater weather	integration	docs title /docs/configuration/ Configuration file

The demo {% term integration %} 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)
• 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)
• Valve (valve)
• Water heater (water_heater)
• Weather (weather)

To integrate a demo platform in Home Assistant, add the following section to your {% term "configuration.yaml" %} file. {% include integrations/restart_ha_after_config_inclusion.md %}

# Example configuration.yaml entry
demo:

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