Home Assistant
Adding Devices to Home Assistant
Home Assistant will be able to automatically discover and configure any Google Chromecasts, Netgear routers, Belkin WeMo switches, Philips Hue bridges and Sonos speakers in your network if you have the discovery component enabled (which is by default).
See the components overview page to find installation instructions for your devices and services. Many components use the sensor platform. Sensors need to be added into the configuration.yaml as sensor:, sensor 2:, sensor 3:, etc. There should not be gaps in the sequence or your sensors might not load correctly.
Most components that support multiple entries within the configuration.yaml follow the component:, component 2: format.
If you can’t find support for your favorite device or service, consider adding support
Grouping devices
Once you get a bunch of devices set up, it is time to organize them. This can be done using groups. Each group exists of a name and a list of entity IDs. Entity IDs can be retrieved from the web interface by using the Set State page in the Developer Tools (icon in the middle).
# Example configuration.yaml entry group: living_room: light.table_lamp, switch.ac bedroom: - light.bedroom - media_player.nexus_player
Customizing devices and services
By default, all of your devices will be visible and have a default icon determined by their domain. You may find it desireable to customize the look and feel of your front page by altering some of these parameters. This can be done by adding the following config to the homeassistant: section.
Entity_pictures, badges, device_tracker pictures, etc can either be a URL or /local/file.jpg, which points to directory www in the HASS configuration directory.
# Example configuration.yaml entry homeassistant: # Add this to your existing configuration # Only the `entity_id` is required. All other options are optional. customize: some.entity_id: hidden: true entity_picture: http://placehold.it/200x200 friendly_name: My better name