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page	Broadlink RM2 and A1 sensor	Instructions on how to integrate Broadlink RM2 and/or A1 E-air sensors within Home Assistant.	2016-12-03 21:59	true	false	true	true	broadlink.png	Sensor	0.35	Local Polling

The broadlink sensor platform let you monitor data from an RM2 and A1 E-air. There is currently no support for the cloud API.

To enable it, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: broadlink
    host: IP_ADDRESS
    mac: 'MAC_ADDRESS'
    monitored_conditions:
      - 'temperature'

Configuration options:

• host (Required): The hostname/IP address to connect to.
• mac (Required): Device mac address.
• name (Optional): Default BL. Sensor name
• update_interval (Optional): Time in seconds to fetch data from sensors. Default 300.
• timeout (Optional): Timeout in seconds for the connection to the device.
• monitored_conditions array (Required): States to monitor.
  • 'temperature'
  • 'humidity'
  • 'air_quality'
  • 'light'
  • 'noise'

To set it up, add the following information to your configuration.yaml file:

Obtain sensor data from an A1:

sensor:
  - platform: broadlink
    update_interval: 60
    host: IP_ADDRESS
    mac: 'MAC_ADDRESS'
    monitored_conditions:
      - temperature
      - humidity
      - air_quality
      - light
      - noise

Obtain temperature data from an RM2:

sensor:
  - platform: broadlink
    update_interval: 60
    host: IP_ADDRESS
    mac: 'MAC_ADDRESS'
    monitored_conditions:
      - temperature

{% linkable_title Microsoft Windows installation %}

The pycrypto library needs to be available on your platform. On a typical windows sysytem `pip install pycrypto` will fail, as a compiler needs to be installed first.

The quickest way around this is to use a pre-built binary, e.g., from https://github.com/sfbahr/PyCrypto-Wheels

Be sure to get the correct 64 or 32-bit binary for your system, the full command line will look something like the sample below for a 64-bit system:

pip install --use-wheel --no-index --find-links=https://github.com/sfbahr/PyCrypto-Wheels/raw/master/pycrypto-2.6.1-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl pycrypto