A way to create entities in a script?

[henfri (Hendrik Friedel)]

Hello,

I have a script that polls information from my heating system.
Depending on the configuration of my heating system, additional parameters could become available. My script gets a list of all of these.
Now, I would like my script to create an entity for each parameter of my heating system and update this entity every 300s.

The only way I found was a custom integration. But hat seems very complex…

Greetings,
Hendrik

[VDRainer]

I mostly use mqtt sensors for scripts.

Monitor uptime of other devices on network?

I do it with a little bash script on the server that runs in crontab and sends the values to mqtt. #!/bin/bash MQTT='192.168.1.67' ## Uptime TOPIC="home/sensors/$(hostname)/uptime" PAYLOAD=$(cat /proc/uptime | awk '{printf "%0.f", $1}') /usr/bin/mosquitto_pub -t "$TOPIC" -m "$PAYLOAD" -h "$MQTT" Then, in HA, a mqtt sensor and for a nicer look a template sensor. sensor: - platform: mqtt name: bbb_ha_gw01_uptime state_topic: 'home/sensors/bbb-ha-gw01/uptime' unit_of_measurement: …

[henfri (Hendrik Friedel)]

Uh, the code is broken in formatting.
But I get your point: my script sends to mqtt and then I read the values from mqtt.

That’ll work - nice hack!
I’d prefer something directly in HA, but it would be ok.

[WallyR (Wally)]

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