Using BH1750 light sensor in Hass.io

Installation Home Assistant OS
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When trying to connect my BH1750 light sensor to Home Assistant it doesn’t seem to show up.
Could it be that Hass.io does not support this sensor? The docs page mentions some setup but that only applies to Hassbian.

I have it wired up like this:

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And set up like this:

sensor:
  - platform: bh1750
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Nope. Hassio does not support it. Had the same problem. The only solution I’ve found is to connect the sensor to another Pi or ESP and use a python script to serve the data up to HA via MQTT. My spare Pi arrives in a few days.

Or use Home Assistant installed via another method than HASSIO.

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Ah damn. That’s a real shame, will see if I still want it then and set it up with aRest instead. Thanks!

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If you still need it, here’s how I did it: How to enable I2C on hass.io / resin.io

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