Home Assistant

BT Smart Hub

This platform offers presence detection by looking at connected devices to a BT Smart Hub based router. This router is sometimes referred to as the BT Home Hub 6.

Configuration

To use a BT Smart Hub 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_smarthub

Configuration Variables

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host string (Optional, default: 192.168.1.254)

The IP address of your router

smarthub_model integer (Optional)

The model of your BT Smarthub 1 or 2. If this option is omitted, it will attempt to detect the hub model.

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

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