Home Assistant Binary Sensor¶
The homeassistant
binary sensor platform allows you to create binary sensors that import
states from your Home Assistant instance using the native API.
# Example configuration entry
binary_sensor:
- platform: homeassistant
name: "Input Boolean From Home Assistant"
entity_id: input_boolean.state_home
With Home Assistant 2021.6 or newer, entity state attributes can also be imported.
# Example configuration entry
binary_sensor:
- platform: homeassistant
id: muted
entity_id: media_player.mega_speakers
attribute: is_volume_muted
Configuration variables:¶
name (Required, string): The name of the binary 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.
id (Optional, ID): Manually specify the ID used for code generation.
All other options from Binary Sensor.