Home Assistant Text Sensor¶
The homeassistant
text sensor platform allows you to create a sensors that import
states from your Home Assistant instance using the native API.
# Example configuration entry
text_sensor:
- platform: homeassistant
name: "Weather Forecast From Home Assistant"
entity_id: sensor.weather_forecast
With Home Assistant 2021.6 or newer, entity state attributes can also be imported.
# Example configuration entry
text_sensor:
- platform: homeassistant
id: effect
entity_id: light.led_strip
attribute: effect
Configuration variables:¶
name (Required, string): The name of the text sensor.
entity_id (Required, string): The entity ID to import from Home Assistant.
attribute (Optional, string): The name of the state attribute to import from the specified entity. The entity state is used when this option is omitted. Requires Home Assistant 2021.6 or newer.
id (Optional, ID): Manually specify the ID used for code generation.
All other options from Text Sensor.