Adding more devices to your home using integrations
Before we start to play with the dashboards, you will have to add more devices to your home. The way Home Assistant allows this to be done is by using integrations. We encountered some flavors of integrations using MQTT in Chapter 2, Tasmota in Chapter 3, and TP-Link KASA Smart in Chapter 4, and now we will use some others. You can create integrations for Home Assistant, but that is out of the scope of this book. Instead, we will use the built-in integrations provided by Home Assistant. At the time of writing, there are 2,412 built-in integrations available.
The built-in integrations in Home Assistant can be divided into two main types:
- Home Assistant-based integrations
- Device manufacturer-based integrations
Home Assistant-based integrations are natively provided directly by Home Assistant. They allow you to create sensors based on other types of information available in Home Assistant, add more features to automations...
