Automated way to generate MQTT Sensors?

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You might find the following post useful. I explained to another user how to use scripts to create MQTT Sensors via MQTT Discovery. It’s the technique I have used to create all of my MQTT-based entities (sensor, binary_sensor, lock, climate, etc).

Long setup time for MQTT integration

The following script (script.create_sensors) contains five service calls. Each service call is an mqtt.publish creating a sensor via MQTT Discovery. You can easily see all of the sensor information you provided is included in the payload of each mqtt.publish call. The payloads are published as retained messages which means they will be stored on the MQTT broker; their configuration information will be instantly available to Home Assistant on startup. You don’t have to run the script more than o…