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Product type Book

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815291

Pages 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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IoT Development

Author (1):

Marco Carvalho

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Home Assistant – Installation and Configuration

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Home Automation Systems

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Home Assistant

4. Part 2: Install, Create, and Hack Sensors and Actuators

5. Chapter 3: Hands-On Project 1 – Creating Your Own Sensor

6. Chapter 4: Hacking a Commercial Actuator to Work with Home Assistant

7. Part 3: Automations, Customizations, and Integrations Using Home Assistant

8. Chapter 5: Creating Automations Using Home Assistant

9. Chapter 6: Doing More Using Integrations and Customizations

10. Part 4: Expanding Home Assistant’s Capabilities

11. Chapter 7: Extending Home Automation Capabilities Using Add-ons

12. Chapter 8: Installing and Setting Up Home Assistant Container

13. Part 5: Learn by Doing and Future Trends

14. Chapter 9: Hands-On Project 2 – Creating an LED Strip Controller and Adding It to Home Assistant

15. Chapter 10: Hands-On Project 3 – Creating a Five-Zone Temperature Logger for Your Home

16. Chapter 11: The Road Ahead in Home Automation Technologies

17. Index

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Integrating the sensor data into Home Assistant

The last part of the process of creating our sensor is to integrate it into Home Assistant. We will have to return to our installation of Home Assistant, which we did in Chapter 2, to do so. Our double measurement sensor will be configured in two steps. In the first step, we will configure the temperature part of the sensor; in the second step, we will configure the motion part of the sensor.

Integrating the temperature sensor

If you have been following this book since Chapter 2, you will have Home Assistant 9.3 or above installed in your home automation server. As mentioned previously, in the case of this book, we are using version 9.3 and above so Home Assistant will automatically discover the temperature sensor and help you configure it.

You will need to execute the following steps to be able to get the data from your temperature sensor: