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Just adding clearer documentation around the configuration variables for the season sensor. Brings this more inline with other component documentation.
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title: "Season Sensor"
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description: "Instructions how to add season sensors into Home Assistant."
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date: 2017-07-04 07:00:00
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comments: false
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sharing: true
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footer: true
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ha_category: Sensor
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ha_iot_class: "Local Polling"
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ha_release: 0.53
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---
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This sensor will display the current astronomical or meteorological season (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) based on the users setting in the config file.
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All information about how the seasons work was taken from Wikipedia:
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- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season#Astronomical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season#Astronomical)
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- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox)
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- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice)
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```yaml
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# Example configuration.yaml entry
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sensor:
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- platform: season
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type: astronomical
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```
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Configuration variables:
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- **type** (*Optional*): Type of season definition. Options are `meteorological` or `astronomical`. Default is `astronomical`.
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