Nest Binary Sensor

The nest binary sensor platform let you monitor various states of a thermostat from Nest.

You must have the Nest component configured to use these sensors. A nest thermostat can provide any of the below sensors. A nest protect can only report the ‘online’ condition.

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

# Example configuration.yaml entry
binary_sensor:
  - platform: nest
    monitored_conditions:
      - 'fan'
      - 'hvac_ac_state'

Configuration variables:

• monitored_conditions array (Required): States to monitor.
  • ‘fan’
  • ‘hvac_ac_state’
  • ‘hvac_aux_heater_state’
  • ‘hvac_heat_x2_state’
  • ‘hvac_heat_x3_state’
  • ‘hvac_alt_heat_state’
  • ‘hvac_alt_heat_x2_state’
  • ‘hvac_emer_heat_state’
  • ‘online’
• scan_interval (Optional): Interval in seconds to scan.