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The twitch platform will allow you to monitor Twitch channel status from within Home Assistant and setup automation based on the information.

{% linkable_title Setup %}

Create a new app at "Register Your Application" in the Twitch developer portal. Then get the Client ID for the new app.

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

To use Twitch with your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  platform: twitch
  client_id: YOUR_TWITCH_CLIENT_ID
  channels:
    - channel1
    - channel2

{% configuration %} client_id: description: Your Twitch client ID. required: true type: string channels: description: List of channels. required: true type: map keys: channel_id: description: Name of the channel. {% endconfiguration %}