Home Assistant

BT Home Hub 5

This platform offers presence detection by looking at connected devices to a BT Home Hub 5 based router.

To use a BT Home Hub 5 router in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file. After changing the configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. To view the changes, go to Settings > Devices & services > Entities.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
device_tracker:
  - platform: bt_home_hub_5
    host: 192.168.1.254

Configuration Variables

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host string (Optional, default: 192.168.1.254)

The IP address of your router.

See the device tracker integration page for instructions how to configure the people to be tracked.

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