Adding Thermostats

Thermostats offer Home Assistant a peek into the current and target temperature in a house. Some thermostats will also offer an away mode that will lower use of heating/cooling. The only supported thermostat right now is the Nest thermostat.

To set it up, add the following information to your home-assistant.conf file:

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[thermostat]
platform=nest
username=myemail@mydomain.com
password=mypassword