Noob trying to install first custom integration (Sensibo)

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Hello community!

A new Home Assistant user trying to migrate away from Homey and take full control of my house.

I have installed Home Assistant OS on a dedicated x86 PC and all is working fine.
I have also enabled the cloud trial to explore that a bit…

Now to my question!

I have been able to install Philips Hue, IKEA Tradfri, my garage doors and some other of my key devices in my house. However since I could not find the Sensibo integration in the UI installer I found it here:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sensibo

I installed the Visual Studio Code plugin and have added below lines to my configuration.yaml (taken from the documentation on the link below):

# Sensibo
climate:
  - platform: sensibo
    api_key: [my key here]

I then saved the file, confirmed the configuration file is valid from Home Assistant settings and then restarted the Home Assistant system to have the config reloaded.

Now what? How do I see my custom integration? How do I configure it and get my air conditioner in to Home Assistant so that I can control it? I see no change anywhere?

Thanks in advance!

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Do you see anything in the logs? Do you see a new entity climate.xxx under Developer Tools → States?

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Hi,
I must have done something wrong. I reinterated the same process and then it worked.

Since I was a complete noob on HA I did not know if I had missed a step or not. It felt too easy :slight_smile: Was expecting that I had to install some binaries or something first, but it was pretty straight forward.

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When it is listed under Integrations - Home Assistant , it is not a custom integration, but a built-in one.

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